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Report: Obama Admin to Release E-mails on CIA’s Libya Talking Points to Senate Intelligence Committee

Feb. 22, 2013 10:27am

Amid continued controversy over the Sept. 11 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama administration has reportedly agreed to provide e-mails surrounding the contentious CIA talking points that led to the distribution of seemingly-inaccurate information. It’s likely that there will be an investigation using this new content to explore whether the White House hid key details about the deadly assault.

A congressional source has told Fox News that the e-mails will be provided early next week to the SenateΒ IntelligenceΒ Committee following requests to review the messaging in question. What is not yet clear, however, is whether hard copies of the e-mails will be offered or whether members will read the messages on a computer or digital platform. Fox News has more:

The source noted that the committee has already seen details on how the controversial talking points were changed from their original drafting. Terms like Al Qaeda were stripped out, which led Republican lawmakers to charge the talking points were deliberately watered down — it’s unclear which versions of the talking points members of the Senate committee might see.

The intelligence community’s talking points were provided to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice and formed the basis of her controversial comments on all the major Sunday talk shows five days after the attack. During those shows, she asserted that the attack was a β€œspontaneous” reaction to protests elsewhere in the region and was a demonstration that spun out of control.

The potential release of these e-mails comes as the White House is attempting to nominate counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan to direct the CIA.

(H/T: Fox News)

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Comments (40)

  • oldincarolina
    Posted on February 23, 2013 at 9:00am

    After nearly six months , I would say that they have had plenty of time to “doctor up” these
    talking points so that there is nothing “bad” pointing to any of the elights in the Obama camp. As I
    have said before , had Obama been our President in 1941, after Pearl Harbor , he would still be investigating what happened , and war on Japan would still not be declared. And , had the Japanese been muslims , we probably never would have fought them.

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  • toto
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 7:56pm

    Why do you need talking points when the truth will do just fine. Truth? Do they even know what that is anymore?

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  • loveoursoldiers
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 4:40pm

    I think ‘watered down talking points’ was/is a lie. So they made up emails to go along with that lie. Simple
    Lies to back up the lies

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  • Margyt
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 3:18pm

    This is just the tip of the iceberg. Who ordered the talking points is just the beginning. I fear it will be the end.

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  • jessieH
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 3:07pm

    You didn’t think the president would turn in his own people, did you? Once a muslim, always a muslim.

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  • MiCurmudgeon
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:40pm

    So glad the Federal Government is going to go after Lance Armstrong. Just wish they would go after the terrorists who killed our Ambassador in Lybia.

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    • MiCurmudgeon
      Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:53pm

      Maybe the Government ( edited ) emails will be available, but nothing from the re-election folks in Chicago will see the light of day.

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  • spirited
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:00pm

    Golly, Michelle’s bangs are so dang cute !

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    • Thighmaster
      Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:10pm

      Haven’t you heard, it’s no longer politically correct to say “bang”

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:52am

    What was it they said in RED TAILS ? Oh yes, “Politics is the art of avoiding a question until it is no longer relevant”. Let’s just give it some time….

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:48am

    Meanwhile, who is covering the story about the film maker jailed for the film that supposedly caused all this?

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  • crusaderx9
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:41am

    Talking Points are not the same as official Intel Reports.

    TPs are subjective, written by a staff with a POV, and are intended to manipulate the audience.

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    • barber2
      Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:51am

      CRU: Yes. Have a feeling that the Obama White House is 99% TP….

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  • loveoursoldiers
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:34am

    I know what they say.. blah blah blah… we don’t want to inflame the Muslim world so we need to tell them we understand their issues and will need to apologize at some point.. esp. re: this horrible, horrible video.. George Bush started all this unrest

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  • dublinthewagons
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:27am

    It will take until next week for the new ink to dry.
    Who will be tossed under the buss this time? Not the manchild

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:48am

      This week after saying Obama never asked for even an update on the situation on 9/11 they changed and said he called for an update at 10pm … where are the phone records of that call ?… still being “created”?

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:12am

    “the e-mails will be provided early next week to the Senate Intelligence Committee”
    =====================================
    Why not just do it now? Need to make some adjustments to the emails, and pick which one’s fit your lies, Zero?

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:56am

    I’ve got one f those right here….

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  • RaydocX
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:52am

    This is asking the administration to incriminate themselves.
    while you and I can no longer delete work emails thanks to government regulation, there is zero chance these will include anything that is beneficial… those emails did not occur (spoken word), were redacted entirely, or will have been so heavily censored as to be useless.

    the only hope is that yet another discrepancy between what they say now happened then vs. what they said then happened then is discovered.

    personally, there are already enough of those nothing this administration says is trustworthy.
    i think even the press sees that now, but they’re too far down the road to change course.

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    • loveoursoldiers
      Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:36am

      Corruptocrats don’t abide by regulations

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    • barber2
      Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:48am

      RAY: And of course we have classic Obama : no messages from him or to him ! He remains ” out of the loop ” of investigation ! ” See no evil, hear no evil , ” do nothing…. Of course, allowing a president to be unaccountable for the deaths of four Americans could only happen in the new Age Of Obama where there is no accountability for this president ….that is considered ” racist” and our congress is comprised of Democrat Obama robots and Republican wussies cowered by the Democrat Media Character Assassination Squad.

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    • barber2
      Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:50am

      LOVE: Agree. Just like criminals will not follow new Obama gun laws ( pssst: the Obama folks haven’t figured that out…or have they ? )

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  • spirited
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:45am

    There they go again; –ping pong!

    March 1st is nearing.
    Who’s idea was the sequester?
    Who voted yes to it –before?

    Let’s throw out some Benghazi distraction; It doesn’t, at this point, matter.

    >serve

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  • barber2
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:39am

    Nothing that comes out of this White House can be trusted to be truthful. They have leaked ( front page of the NYT no less ) and lied for the past four years. Obama’s hidden school records are symbols for this administration who parrots the phrase ” we are the most transparent administration in American history ” while they leak , lie and cover-up. If the MSM wasn’t under their complete control, they would never be able to do this. Freedom of the press is dead in America. The radical Left suffocated it .

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:37am

    Given the near, non-stop lies and distortion and fabrications of the administration how can we actually trust them to give real e-mails or are not redacted to the point of being worthless?

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:48am

      Snow:
      Come on, all the emails they are going to release are the chain emails, SPAM, the forwarded jokes and of course the emails asking “where are we going for lunch today”. Any of the important ones won’t be released for another 3 years.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:37am

    Barry should be impeached and thrown into prison where he belongs for the Benghazi coverup but nothing will come of it and we all know it.

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:35am

    I can assure you they will be redacted to the point of uselessness…..

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:35am

    Given the pending release of these e-mails the main questions have to be asked and considered:

    How can we trust them to give authentic e-mails and all of the e-mails? How do we know these are not just fabrications or redacted to such a degree nothing is answered?

    And most importantly:

    How long until the treason and murder committed by the admin is decisively dealt with in the courts of law?

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