Benghazi emails show State Department had heavy hand in watering down account of attack

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/15/white-house-releases-100-pages-
e-mails-notes-related-to-benghazi/

WASHINGTON � State Department officials repeatedly objected to -- and
tried to water down -- references to Al Qaeda and prior security warnings
in the administration's initial internal story-line on the Benghazi
attack, according to dozens of emails and notes released by the White
House late Wednesday.

The documents also showed the White House, along with several other
departments, played a role in editing the so-called "talking points,"
despite claims from the White House that it was barely involved. And they
showed then-CIA Director David Petraeus objected to the watered-down
version that would ultimately be used as the basis for U.N. Ambassador
Susan Rice's flawed comments on several TV shows the Sunday after the
attack.

The documents were released under pressure after whistle-blowers testified
on the Hill and some email excerpts leaked to the media last week. The
100-page file showed that State Department officials were even more
heavily involved in editing the "talking points" than was previously
known.

One email sent the night of the Friday after the attack from an unknown
official said: "The State Department had major reservations with much or
most of the document."

Individual emails leading up to that assessment show State officials
repeatedly objecting to the intelligence community's early version of
events.

The early versions stated that "Islamic extremists with ties to Al Qaeda"
participated in the assault and discussed links to militant group Ansar al
Sharia -- and referenced prior attacks against western targets in
Benghazi.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland complained that she had
"serious concerns" about "arming members of Congress" to make assertions
the administration was not making. "In same vein, why do we want Hill to
be fingering Ansar al Sharia, when we aren't doing that ourselves until we
have investigation results ... and the penultimate point could be abused
by Members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency
warnings so why do we want to feed that either? Concerned ..."

She also wrote that the line saying the administration knows there were
extremists among the demonstrators "will come back to us at podium."

In response to her concerns, Assistant Secretary of State David S. Adams
voiced agreement. He said the line about prior incidents "will read to
members like we had been repeatedly warned."

The White House had until now declined to make the documents public and
had let congressional investigators review the documents without making
copies.

The documents describe how the administration developed "talking points"
to describe what the administration wanted to discuss publicly immediately
after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens
and three other Americans.


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