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Nov. 20, 2012 12:07pm Erica Ritz

Director of National Intelligence Clapper Removed Al Qaeda From Benghazi Talking Points, Source Says

James Clapper (Photo: AP)

More than a month after Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a September 11 attack on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, CBS News is reporting on how, exactly, inaccurate “talking points” were pushed on the American people in the aftermath.

It is well known by now that Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice told five Sunday talk shows that the attack was a “spontaneous” response to a YouTube video, and that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney echoed the sentiment. Though it was obvious to many at the time that terrorism was a factor, now that it has been confirmed, Congress has begun to ask why the inaccurate talking points were pushed.

“Every member in the intelligence community says that references to al-Qaeda were removed by somebody, [but] they don’t know who,” Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) explained over the weekend.

According to CBS sources, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was responsible, expunging references to “Al-Qaeda” and “terrorism” from the talking points. Though the head of the DNI is Obama appointee James Clapper, CBS is making it explicitly clear that the edits did not come from the White House.

CBS writes, giving more information on how the CIA and the FBI were involved:

CBS News has learned that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) cut specific references to “al Qaeda” and “terrorism” from the unclassified talking points given to Ambassador Susan Rice on the Benghazi consulate attack – with the agreement of the CIA and FBI. The White House or State Department did not make those changes.

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…an intelligence source tells CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan the links to al Qaeda were deemed too “tenuous” to make public, because there was not strong confidence in the person providing the intelligence. CIA Director David Petraeus, however, told Congress he agreed to release the information — the reference to al Qaeda — in an early draft of the talking points, which were also distributed to select lawmakers.

“The intelligence community assessed from the very beginning that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack.” DNI spokesman Shawn Turner tells CBS News. That information was shared at a classified level — which Rice, as a member of President Obama’s cabinet, would have been privy to.

An intelligence source says the talking points were passed from the CIA to the DNI, where the substantive edits were made, and then to FBI, which made more edits as part of “standard procedure.” [Emphasis added]

CBS adds that Clapper, who once called the Muslim Brotherhood a “largely secular” organization, reviewed the talking points before they were disseminated. However, their sources were unclear about who within the agency suggested the changes to begin with.

CBS continues, discussing the blowback:

“The points were not, as has been insinuated by some, edited to minimize the role of extremists, diminish terrorist affiliations, or play down that this was an attack,” the official tells CBS News, adding that there were “legitimate intelligence and legal issues to consider, as is almost always the case when explaining classified assessments publicly.”

“Most people understand that saying ‘extremists’ were involved in a direct assault on the mission isn’t shying away from the idea of terrorist involvement,” added the official. “Because of the various elements involved in the attack, the term extremist was meant to capture the range of participants.” [Emphasis added]

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TrueColours
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:37pm
Clapper is just another layer from Barry. Barry is responsible and they’re throwing one guy after the other under the bus to cover for him. Also. The point is lost in all of this slight of hand crap. Who is in charge of the Al-Qaeda “linked” terrorists? Why the CIA. Why would the CIA linked Al Qaeda terrorists attack the hand that feeds them? It was a hit. Steven’s discovered too much. What did Steven’s discover? Who ordered the hit? Who ordered the stand down? Who ordered and orchestrated this COVER UP! Let’s get to that, not the affairs, Rice, altered talking points, You Tube movies etc.

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- E.Souchak
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:01pm
  To find the answers you must turn your focus to Chicago. The key is Chicago
  
  Rezko Update: Mystery man’s true identity revealed
  
  http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/11/18/rezko-update-mystery-mans-true-identity-revealed/
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:03pm
  heck with talking points……who gave the order to stand down and not send further help…………………….
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:19pm
  TrueColours hit the nail on the head. The only thing the ridiculous Obozo administration has learned in four years is plausible deniability, lying, and how to blame Bush.
  
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- jblaze
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:21pm
  Lies, lies and more lies. My only hope in any of this; is the promise that every lying liar with have to give an account for every lie that ever came out of their lying mouths. Thy Kingdom Come!
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:31pm
  “legitimate intelligence and legal issues to consider, as is almost always the case when explaining classified assessments publicly.”
  =====================================
  Such as what illegal activities to hide from the public, who should be the first to get thrown under the bus, and how can we insulate the teflon president from this?
  
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- rosecityken
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:00pm
  @oldguy49 exactly!!! eyes on the ball boys….quit chasing butterflies ….who cares what rice said …we know that panetta, clinton, obama AND rice lied for a week and a half….hell obama lied to the WORLD by addressing the un general assembly. 4 americans arent DEAD because ambassador rice is TALKING HEAD!!!! they are dead because someone REFUSED TO HELP THEM 3 TIMES……OR DISOBEYED A DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL ORDER TO HELP THEM. which is it????
  
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- stage9
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:22pm
  OK, so assuming they’re right. Someone edited the text to remove the link to Al Qaeda! Why would they do this, and who added the video as the scapegoat?
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:50pm
  while its nice to know who edited the release and why and we can now roast him publicly and hopefully judiciously. when will obama pick up the buck on his desk and take responsibility for FOUR MURDERS on his watch! WHY THE STAND DOWN! Why was a general fired for not standing down!?!? I wonder who will be the next to be thrown under the bus to protect dear leader!?!?
  
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- independentvoteril
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:08pm
  @ E.Souchak..so this is BUSH’S fault????? I can’t stand Bush .,.,didn’t vote for him,, HOWEVER.. this is OBAMA’S fault.. the buck STOPS with him.. he can throw everyone he wants under the bus but bottom line in MY journal is was and IS OBAMA and my decedents will read it as such,,,
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:21pm
  Now you know why Obama has toned down the use of the word Terrorism. The Muslim brotherhood has an advisor sitting in on Obamas morning update (when he joins in) from his Szars.
  
  Terrorism is the latest strategy for rival nations to launch attacks without openly declaring war.!
  
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- Enuff Zenuff
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:29pm
  If “the links to al Qaeda were deemed too “tenuous” to make public”, then how strong were the links to the video?????
  
  Everyone in Benghazi was saying, “What Video are they talking about?”. Plus the video barely had a thousands hits on it when all this first hit the fan so there’s no way a bunch of Muslims were up in arms about it… So who decided to insert the video as the cause and why?
  
  I agree with TRUECOLORS that this was a ‘HIT” – Not by Al Qaida or any other Muslim extremists… This had all the marks of the biblical story (2nd Samuel, 12) of King David having Uriah the Hittite murdered by asking his generals to place him in the heat of battle and then withdraw. Stevens was possibly involved in gun-running to the Syrian rebels. Did the White House consider him a liability who knew too much? This entire episode stinks to high heaven of cover-up after cover-up. I applaud Fox News, The Blaze, and WND for pursuing the truth no matter where it leads for they are the only ones who have our back.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:32pm
  I say let him turn 101 yrs old in prision doing life without parole!
  Or..just execute him now!
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:43pm
  @independentvoteril
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:08pm
  
  @ E.Souchak..so this is BUSH’S fault????? I can’t stand Bush .,.,didn’t vote for him,, HOWEVER.. this is OBAMA’S fault.. the buck STOPS with him.. he can throw everyone he wants under the bus but bottom line in MY journal is was and IS OBAMA and my decedents will read it as such,,
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  I can’t help but wonder when that bus is going to have so many bodies under it that it no longer goes anywhere. Maybe America will get lucky and it will happen somewhere that the crime is high enough they’ll think it’s been jacked up to steal everything off it. I can think of a lot of movies where vehicles are stripped to the bone. Wonder what b o and m o et al will do when their bus is only a cadever and there’s nothing left to destroy people with or hide the bodies?
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:16pm
  More lies from the White House via the Commie Barrack Station, CBS.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:27pm
  hmm. hmm. hmm. what should i go on.. the official story and the finding of the investigation… or your ridiculous conspiracy theory… hmm…
  
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- Wayner
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:26pm
  WHY was it more convienient just to let Ambassadore Stevens die?
  
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- Charleyhorse
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:00pm
  Once again, I smell feces. It appears that the current administration believes that if we smell it enough, we will get to the point where we don’t notice the stink. This reeks.
  
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- KoolAidDrinker
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 1:10am
  Operation WORD SMITH
  
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- fmdell
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 10:11am
  2 things – What about argument about that the video was the cause of the attacks? Even if this lame excuse had any merit, the video explanation was a LIE! It was not a withholding of information. It was the dissemination of misinformation.
  
  Second, why isn’t anyone focusing on Obama who came out a full week later saying the same thing? And when Obama spoke at the UN, that was a far more significant venue from a more prominent spokesman – i.e. POTUS. If you lie to the American people, that is one thing. If you make a statement like this in front of the whole word and then use that lie to justify offering a diatribe about the unacceptability of defaming “the prophet of Islam,” you have some explaining to do. I would think the president’s actions would be even more blameworthy than what Rice said and did.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 12:51pm
  .
  “The points were not, as has been insinuated by some, edited to minimize the role of extremists”.
  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
  
  “Thank you very much, you’ve been a great audience, we’re here through 2016.”
  
  Oh, man, my sides are killing me!
  
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- TexasTeaPartyRepublican
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 11:07am
  1. Let’s get to why a U.S. Ambassador was left vulnerable in a hostile area.
  2. For Obama to say the best way to deal with “the video” was to ignore it – then give it more world wide advertising at the U.N. and television than even an award winning blockbuster movie deserves; they did that for their own disinformation.
  3. Petraeus knows why Ambassador Stephens was left in the lurch.
  4. Has a new Ambassador to Libya been appointed? Maybe Susan Rice would like that job? Or even Senator Kerry?
  
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- bumpkin
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 2:31pm
  Can you imagine, -your whole life in Soros’ Mafia is to work diligently and monitor daily the chess game of the USA management, carefully lining up the players, keeping dossiers on each one- (There are SO many!) pushing his people into key places, buying and selling humans and their agendas, ’til you finally have his preferred, buy-able politicians and so-called ‘leaders’ who’ll do his bidding in place on the chessboard -yes, those whom he’s ‘helped’ get into their positions (and therefore who owe him and will pay him back) so that he can finally push into place his key player, who’s been groomed t/o life, essentially, through his people, to be his key jackanape (one would think they could have done a better job training him, though) and have Barry Jackanape immediately put the remainder of his players into position (he labels them czars) by appointment, so that he finally OWNS the political and media players, and now, thus, owns the USA board? Can you IMAGINE the heady feeling he would get playing that game of a lifetime? Oh, to be SOROS! He loves a good game, I suspect. I bet, when Soros was a youth, he embraced communism as a way to control people; however, I don’t think he actually believes in communism- but just sees it as a means to an end…to play puppetmaster with the world. I expect he now finally sees himself as king of the Earth. GOD was SO smart to limit our tenure on Earth! Even Soros will die at some point! Thank GOD! Don’t underestimat
  
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raderby
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:36pm
this doofus should be/should have been put down, long ago…………….. but he is just Obloomers’ fall guy.

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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:57pm
  Please don’t denigrate others who may qualify as a “doofus.”
  
  Clapper is the “King Doofus.”
  
  He’s miscues are legend.
  
  I still remember his testimony before Congress when he called the Muslim Brotherhood a “largely secular organization that eschews violence.” And who could forget that after CNN and Fox news began covering a big jihadist bust in the UK, he could not respond to a question from Katy Curic about the arrests because he HAD NOT HEARD ABOUT THE ARRESTS!
  
  This is the idiot that’s missing from some village.
  
  I will forever maintain that Clapper has his job just BECAUSE he is so clueless.
  
  You cannot make this stuff up!
  
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- Enuff Zenuff
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:44pm
  @johnpaulkuchtajr
  “I will forever maintain that Clapper has his job just BECAUSE he is so clueless”
  
  Looks like Obama took a page out of BJ Clinton’s book when Clinton made Janet ‘clueless’ Reno his Attorney General.
  
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D-Fence
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:36pm
Please, he was told to edit it by Jarrett. What a bunch of lying sacks of excrement. Prepare for a revolution.

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- Shasta
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:56pm
  Finally, someone else who understands that Jarrett is the one running things in the WH. Word of advice, don’t cross her!
  
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- Twinspeedr
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:49pm
  I tend to agree with that thought. Clapper might just be a scapegoat? He’s definitely someone with a track record of deliberately whitewashing Islamist groups…
  
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- shorthanded12
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:28pm
  V J’s daddy inlaw is connected to OPEC, not to mention Jarrets long standing relationship with Bill Ayers and his radical wife and Frank Marshall Davis. This trash from Chicago told Barry not to respond with military help. I bet she was involved with secret talks with Iran despite the White House denying it. Barry is a mamas boy from the get go…never no real daddy in his life so he only is living out his mothers radical ways. Valerie runs the show and Barry is just a big ole puppet in a suit.
  
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- oudbob
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:50pm
  I agree, It’s Jarrat.
  
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:35pm
That sucking sound is me pulling my shoes out of the pool of BS.

Gee, let’s not call it a terrorist attack even though we know it is. Let’s call it a spontaneous riot because that video. Then the Lybians,al-Qaeda and its affiliates won’t know that we know that they did it. Shoooo. Don’t tell al-Qaeda. I wish this was sarcasim.

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- changedone
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:28pm
  And it’s funny, don’t you think, that Hillary Clinton said in one of her speeches “Let me be clear: The United States government had nothing at all to do with the creation of this video.” Freudian slip? I’ve never heard anyone suggest that, except Clinton denying it.
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:53pm
  OMG who cares about Libya? Ambassador Robespierre died doing what he loved. Nobody wanted this war other than the chicken hawks. When you accept that this isn’t our government? Why is G.I. now deified like in the Wehrmacht? They are GOVERNMENT ISSUES.
  
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oddball130
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:35pm
Just more protection comming from the lame sream media for their boy in the White House.

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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:44pm
  Their boy in the white house is “eating some cheese, drinking some wine and waiting for Moriarty to fix up my tank”.
  
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- Pantloadian
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:37pm
  Boy . . . never far from the surface with you, is it? Just can’t help yourself.
  
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MajorMolly
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:33pm
I hope this story never dies, unlike the 4 Americans. This stench leads all the way back to BO. He must be impeached.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:55pm
  All those involved in Behghazi, the arms smuggling and the cover up must face justice.
  
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- Pork_Anvil
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:05pm
  Haha, you guys. Your constant posting surely will bring them to justice!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:16pm
  Have a nice lunch EtchySketchy?
  
  Only 2 1/2 hours left to post…. LMAO
  
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- starview
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:31pm
  Pork, Just e mailed my senator too. Hopefully many others are doing the same…….
  
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H.I.Mcdunnough
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:32pm
This is why I don’t understand why everyone was criticizing Ambassador Rice for what she was told to go on those five shows and say. It doesn’t matter what she said, everybody knows it was a terrorist attack. The real question is why wasn’t security enhanced when there was so much evidence that there were bad actors in the region? Thats what I want to know. This is all a game. Ya wanna know what else I think? I think Barry sent her out there on purpose, knowing that she doesnt havemuch to do with it, but also knowing that people would fixate on the lie she told and not the real story. Seems like people fell for it. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

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- raderby
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:39pm
  doesn’t matter – she was used, then? that is exactly why she is not qualified to be SOS.
  
  get real, she is a tool of Obloomers
  
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- H.I.Mcdunnough
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:59pm
  Yeah I think she was used, I dont think she had anything to gain from lying or misleading people. She just did what she was told to do and didn’t want to go against the president or whomever crafted what she was supposed to say. Whatever the case, I dont care what she said. It’s obvious it was terror, I just wanna know why we were so woefully unprepared, that just doesn’t make sense. People need to stop acting so surprised and offended that the government lied to them and try to figure out WHY they lied. There’s no way she should get Secretary of State out of this but what if he still nominates her? Talk about cajones!
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:21pm
  CBS isn’t reporting a story; they’re fabricating a lie in defense of the regime.
  
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- Margyt
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:42pm
  There would be no game without players.
  
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- RealMenRConservative
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:52pm
  Wrong – the real question is who told Ambassador Rice claim there was “in fact” a spontaneous demonstration over a video? Its one thing to say DNI scrubbed the talking points of any reference to terrorism or Al Queda, but then this fabricated story of a demonstration was put in its place. DNI did not do this!!!!!!!! This has the strong stench of the White House fabricating a story for political cover.
  
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- RealMenRConservative
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:56pm
  And in addition – Ambassador Rice knew full well she was selling a bunch of fiction. She knew exactly what she was doing and why. She also knows who asked her to do it and that cannot be anyone but the President and Valerie Jarrett. BUT – she refuses to come clean with American people. SHAME!
  
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- bTeri
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:34pm
  The point about criticizing Rice is that she willingly and knowingly went out on the five Sunday shows and lied to the American people, towing the Obama administration line. She has proven herself completely untrustworthy to anyone and everyone other than Obama – so why would or could she be an effective and truthworthy Secty of State working with other countries. and all of this is putting aside how mediocre she’s been as US Ambassador to the UN, how completely anti- Israel she is and how she, when at the Africa desk of the State Dept under Clinton was instrumental in talking Albright, Sandy Berger and Clinton out of accepting bin Laden on a silver platter from the Sudan – brilliant move on her part.
  
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- H.I.Mcdunnough
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:15pm
  But didn’t they ALL say that it was because of the video at first? I just don’t see why she’s being attacked for saying the same lie that they all were touting. That’s why it looks like a witch hunt to me. I don’t think she’s the only one at fault.
  
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- Enuff Zenuff
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:39pm
  @raderby
  I don’t particularly want Rice as SOS, but if she’s shot down by the outcry, who will we get as the alternative? – Probably someone far more dangerous!. Imagine Nancy Pelosi… or even Michelle Obama (since Hillary didn’t have any credentials either – other than being First Lady and then perpetually running for office… It’s not like she did anything as a Senator other than turn around and run for President). I’m far more scared of the alternative possibilities than I am of a ‘useful idiot’ like Rice. Let Rice have the slot… she’ll just get thrown under the bus before her term is up anyway!
  
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- Dachande
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 12:12am
  H.I.MCDUNNOUGH,
  
  She is being criticized because she was privy to classified and unclassified information. Having both standards of information, or at least access to both, and still going on and publicly spouting a bunch of garbage means she’s equally at fault for spreading misinformation. I can guarantee if she has clearance, she saw the classified version as well. When something happens, everyone wants to know and information isn’t as protected as they think it is. But to send someone out with bad information, knowing she will be criticized is called deflection. No pity for her.
  
  This travesty needs to haunt those responsible. But I’m sure too many people will just forget about it, leave it in the past and move on to the next squirrel.
  
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brtmchl30
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:32pm
We all know it was terrorism. From the start. This is a farce. Obama lies on a daily basis. The election is over. Now WHO gave the order to stand down and leave our men stranded to die! This is what the hearings SHOULD be about. Impeachment proceedings to immediatly follow. Because I firmly believe it came from the White House. I believe it was a decision to not stir up any problems before the election and they thought it ended with Stevens. They would use an excuse that there wasn’t anyway to get people in in such a small timeline. Those brave ex Seals threw coal on the fire and by that time the White House made the decision to let them die. To cover things up. Why was the CIA annex there anyway? What was going on there? Was it a secret? Patraeus knows why, he is the head of the CIA, he is deeply involved. But it was Obama who decided those men were not worth saving, because he is a COWARD. And he does not feel like he needs to explain any decisions he makes to the people. All Hail King Obama.

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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:34pm
  I would like to see the proof that anyone was ordered to stand down. When you’ve got that then I might start listening to you. Oh, by proof I don’t mean an anonymous source. An anonymous source might be proof to you, but it’s just a rumor out here in the world of reality.
  
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HKS
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:29pm
Say what? That made no sense at all.

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- AZRACISTBIGOT
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:50pm
  It appears to me that they found a perfect “Turkey” to throw under the bus.
  While we are busy with this little tidbit of useless information, we will be diverted from the really outrageous issue of who refused to send help to the four that were killed and why?
  
  My question is, did four people die to perpetuate a false narrative so as not to affect an election?
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:57pm
  AZ
  
  the answer to that is YES…undeniably YES….
  Stevens was in charge of the gun running Black Ops…from us to Libya Al-Qaeda to Syrian rebels Al-Qaeda….all in the name of trying to win over the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya to play ball with us….and in Egypt… look what just happened in Israel…Egypt supposedly stepped in after causing it with gun running…to settle the conflict….just as SoS Shrillery was on her way to the area….
  
  what did the guy say, Morisi, …the US and the West would have to learn to stay out of the Middle East and accept what happens as the will of the people of the region….this was a backhanded slap to the face of Obama from Egypt and another reminder to stay the heck out of the Middle East political arena…another reason for BHO to take one more step away from Israel and leave them to the wolves…
  
  I am sure that Libya and Egypt both know at the highest levels of the Stevens gun running and attempts at retrieval….they now can blackmail Barry into doing whatever they like or his **** gets Impeached and convicted of Treason for “aiding and abiding the enemy”…
  
  this will continue until AFTER the inauguration and then Obama will clean out of all the military and intel people that he and Jarrett don’t like or think won’t play ball…and then the Caliphate will rise up in the Middle East, lead by either Turkey or Egypt and Iran will suddenly give up the nukes… END GAME
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:55pm
  They weren’t “innocent.” They were contractors or mercenaries. They glorified the lynching and rape of a sovereign, who we made PEACE with in 2009. What goes around comes around.
  
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Lady_of_the_Lake
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:28pm
They need to keep beating Rice over the head with this….it really pizzez them off and causes more rats to come out of their holes to run cover….McCain knows he has a great POW from oBaMa’s camp here…..keep the heat on …..

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conservative karl
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:27pm
lots of people getting hit by busses lately… maybe another law or regulation will help?

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65Mustang
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:27pm
Clapper doesn’t look intelligent enough to have accomplished this task. There are too many lying criminals involved in this coverup, he took the fall.

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702TruthSeeker
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:27pm
huh? who’s ben gazi? … goes back to watching football, drinking beer, and eating doughnuts. all is well because you’re gonna keep getting free stuff. we will deserve all that is coming our way

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gardenerme
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:26pm
LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE!!!!!!!!! and stupid cbs is falling for it. Bad journalism.

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:33pm
  CBS – Communist Being Stupid
  
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- CatB
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:36pm
  NO **** .. the whole lying MSM needs to be so exposed that anyone with any brain cells will know not to believe them. And why did Obama go before the U.N . and continue the lie (of a youtube video). Not only that he put down America and ONCE AGAIN defended ISLAM!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ijBilki-I
  
  treason???
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:15pm
  Isn’t it CBS or NBC making a show that depicts George Washington as a bad guy, a deranged man? In other words the libs message to the dumbed down public is that our founders were bad guys, it was all done wrong, we have to change things and make them right. They’re trying to totally take over america.
  
  The tree of liberty needs watering soon….very soon!
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:26pm
  CBS – Communicating and Broadcasting Socialism
  CNN – Communist News Network
  NBC – Nothing But Communism
  ABC – Always Broadcast Communism
  MSNBC – More of the Same News Bout Communism
  
  FOX – Fixated On Xenial
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:49pm
  Did you hear Glenn read this morning what some schools in TX(?) are teaching kids about the founders being terrorists and equating it to the islamic jihadists (this being the Tea Party)? Check to see if your kids are in schools teaching from modules instead of textbooks which can be reviewed, and if so pull them out immediately. There’s a real effort to teach American kids the same kind of indoctrination that the Palestinian kids are getting about who the guys who care are, and who those who would takever the world.
  
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bTeri
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:23pm
Any else notice that the seediest, sleaziest intelligence issues of the Obama administration always seem to have National Intelligence and Clapper right in the middle of them?

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- HKS
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:31pm
  That guy is not sure which planet he’s on, totally flat lined.
  
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- MDECKER
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:38pm
  This guy is going to have a very tough time finding a hole, small enough to crawl into. Clapper may go down as the biggest turncoat this Country has ever seen.
  
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westtitus
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:23pm
Obama knows nothing, sees nothing and hears nothing. And why did anyone vote for him…oh for free stuff! Let me make this perfectly clear in an election year –
If you believe the White House had nothing to do with this then you have got to be the most mis-informed person on the planet!

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bTeri
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:22pm
I have one question. If the information that Al Qaeda affiliates were responsible was tenuous and therefore it was decided it was not to be included in Rice’s Sunday show talking points…. exactly what was the information they had that the violence was due to a spontaneous protest due to an anti-Muslim video and how is it even possible that information wasnt deemed tenuous? Two months later how is it even possible that we have heard ZERO details about intelligence backing up Rice’s Sunday morning show claims regarding the spontaneous protest as the result of the video — ZERO? Can someone please answer me that?

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- stealthyk9
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:44pm
  Great question(s). Also:
  1) What, if any, orders did our Conman-duh! in Chief, Barack O’Blamer, give on 9/11/2012 with respect to the Benghazi incident?
  2) Why was Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi on 9/11/2012?
  3) What orders did Barack O’Blamer give from 9/12/2012 to the present with respect to the Benghazi incident?
  
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- RealMenRConservative
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:08pm
  Thank you BTERI ! _ This is the whole point and CBS manages to totally ignore it. So if Clapper removed references to Al Queda and terrorism – who added the fiction about a spontaneous demonstration and a video. WHERE did this fictional account originate and WHO told Ambassador Rice to trot this ridiculous story out five days later on the Sunday TV shows? She certainly knew it was fiction (all lies) and she knew why she was out there pushing the lies. The only person benefiting from this crazy story was the CANDIDATE, the President, Mr. Obama.
  
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doomytram
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:21pm
Hey Clapper, “What do you think about the Muslim / Al Qaeda terrorist attack that went on in London about 8 hours ago?” What Terrorist Attack? Said Clapper, What a ridiculous Obozoid you are Clapper!

How anyone with anything resembling anything resembling a functioning brain could buy all of this lying, treason, deception, misinformation, and propaganda is beyond my level a understanding. Pssst. If you think Obozo did steal the election, then you are a racist, terrorist, intolerant, derisive, divisive, bastage….thinks the communist Obamunist. He stole it through all of the above adjectives and more…… It’s not about Race it’s Progressive Leftist’s.

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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:29pm
  Notice how CBS completely absolves Obama? Why..Barry never even saw it…it was all Clapper the CIA and the FBI.
  It’s time for a special congressional committee this has gone on far too long. We need emails and correstpondence and we need to know who knew what and when.
  
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AvengerK
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:21pm
Let me get this right…Clapper removes the referrences to terror groups with the agreement of the CiA and FBI- that bus is warming up- and Clapper is an Obama appointee- because at the time it was not 100% certain that it was a terror attack..but proceeds to trot out Susan Rice to blame the video instead which at the time was supposedly a certainty.
So it’s the video’s fault..no question according to Rice from the talking points received supposedly from Clapper.
It’s time for a special committee to cut through this fog.

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- tbeachhead
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:00pm
  And when do we apologize to the filmmaker who is currently rotting in jail, arrested illegally and charged with no crime?
  
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- stevetherealist
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:26pm
  never …..he violated his parole. Are you now defending criminals over your President?
  
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AmericanStrega
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:19pm
What? Is this a cover-up of the cover-up to cover-up anything that might have made the administration or other government agencies look bad? What?

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gyro
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:19pm
they are realy close to sticking this to someone
funny how liberal media is braking the storys ? Who gains from that ?

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AvengerK
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:17pm
Yeah…right…so does the video get blamed again?

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NewCreationDave
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:15pm
Ya, ok, whatever …

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CWPrequired
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:15pm
Bull shitz

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biohazard23
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:12pm
This regime makes the Keystone Cops look organized and efficient. Either that, or they just sincerely believe that the entire population is too stupid/busy/uninterested/star-struck to question them.

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- doomytram
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:24pm
  Here Here! They are like a bunch trained Arangutan’s conducting a mock trial of who stole the Banana, in Ba-effiing-na-na Republic land DC.
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:25pm
  I was think more like The Our Gang Kids
  Darla-Sec.of State
  Spanky-Vice.Pres.
  Buckwheat-Pres.
  Buckwheat may have changed name to
  Creeam of wheat,but not sure.
  we know how they like to change names.
  
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