The White House’s New Game: The Benghazi Emails Were “Doctored”

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Ace @ Breitbart:

Many in the media bit on this bait from the Obama Administration today.  The Administration released one (1) email, which differed from quotations of it in small respects.  They are now claiming “doctored emails:”

Want to know the real story?

I warned people off this spin today, reminding them of the fact that investigatorswere not permitted to make copies of the emails. They were only permitted toview them. They weren’t even allowed to take notes as they were looking at the emails; all notes were made afterwards, after they’d left the room where they were permitted to merely view the emails.

So of course there are going to be differences — the White House is refusing to allow people to have the actual verbatim copies! All of these quotes come from a limited reading period and then whatever they can remember later, as they write down what their recollection.

White House conclusion? They’re doctoring emails!

Note the game they’re playing — they release one email, refusing to release the rest, just to quibble over phrasing in a quote of the email. And yet they themselves have it within their power to guarantee accurate quotes, by simply releasing the emails publicly. But they refuse to, citing, I imagine, “national security.”

Which suddenly isn’t such a very big concern when they have the opportunity to make a “doctored email” claim.

But don’t listen to me. Listen to ABCNews reporter Jonathan Karl, who reported on the quotes from these emails:

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Jonathan Karl has a bone to pick with CNN’s Jake Tapper on this, too.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/more-details-on-benghazi-talking-points-emerge/

CNN’s Jake Tapper this afternoon obtained a version of the same White House e-mail I reported on last week that showed the evolving Benghazi talking points being shaped by the Obama administration last September.
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The differences in the two versions are being taken by some as evidence that my source sought to intentionally mislead about the extent of State Department involvement in changing the talking points. The version I obtained makes specific reference to the State Department, while the version reported by CNN references only “all of the relevant equities” and does not single out State.

But there’s another important note here that touches on State Department involvement and shows that the portrait remains far from complete. The subject line of the e-mail, according to CNN, was “Re: Revised HPSCI Talking Points for Review.”

The e-mail was sent to, among others, officials at the CIA, the Director of National Intelligence office, the National Security Council, and the State Department, including then-State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

The official who provided this e-mail to CNN removed the other e-mail exchanges from other principals. That includes anything written by Nuland, who – as I reported – objected to a paragraph in the draft talking points that referenced prior threats against US and other foreign interests in Libya.

In that e-mail, according to source, Nuland wrote that such information “could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either? Concerned …”

The paragraph Nuland was “concerned” about was removed in its entirety. That e-mail has not been disputed by the administration.

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The White House could still clear up this confusion by releasing the full e-mail transcripts that were provided for brief review by a select number of members of Congress earlier this year. If there’s “no ‘there’ there,” as President Obama himself claimed yesterday, a full release should help his case.

Now, I have no knowledge of whether Jonathan Karl is a good reporter or not.
But he’s making a good point: Obama can settle this little nothing once and for all by releasing ALL of the emails.
It is precisely the same as when Harry Reid insisted Mitt Romney PROVE he paid taxes after Reid claimed he didn’t (on the Senate floor where Reid is protected from libel and slander law).
Romney ponied up his taxes.
Obama…..we’re waiting.

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nobody believe OBAMA and his crew, we ask THE PEOPLE
and they are angry at OBAMA, they don’t believe because they say he is lying all the time.
well this is a sign to believe and the best sign you can get,
many words come out of THE PEOPLE, and it surprise you, to hear
like corrupt, unfit for the position, bulley, liar,
and many more,
this is telling of what they discover along the last years, they also show depress and not happy,
it blend in the whole pattern of what it does to people to have a constantly hungry leader,
and one that seek to help abroad not in AMERICA, they see it clearly now.

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I wonder how soon the administration will resort to “the dog ate my homework” excuse?

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@Nan G: Let me know when you see the BC, — what about the school records, the fraudulent draft registrations and the Conn. issued SS number? Come on obie – prove up!

Nan – what makes you think the emails haven’t already been ‘vaporized’?

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@Randy: That is basically what is going on now!

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I pray for all everyone to realize that life is short and Jesus said to love our neighbors and our enemies. Love is the answer, not hate.

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J. American
THERE is a saying, you love them because you have to punish them ENEMIES,
because they live in your AMERICA which you love the most of all your enemies.
best to you.
I think about JESUS who made a mess in the TEMPLE and broke everything , to
punish the false hateful leaders.

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