FACTCHECKER DESTROYS WHITE HOUSE CLAIM OF 'DOCTORED' BENGHAZI EMAILS
Working together again, the White House and Media Matters have spent the last week attempting the herculean task of turning the Benghazi-scandal battleship around in the hopes of attacking conservatives. Washington Post factchecker, Glenn Kessler, just destroyed that cynical maneuver.
After Jonathan Karl of ABC News reported that emails proved that the Obama administration had in fact taken a major role in the shaping of the final draft of the CIA's Libya talking points, the actual transcript of a single email was leaked to CNN's Jake Tapper (probably by the White House).
Karl had not seen the actual email and based his reporting on a summary provided to him by a source. Karl quoted an email written by Obama's national security adviser Ben Rhodes this way:
Tapper reported that Rhodes actual email read this way:
Immediately the Left-Wing Outrage Machine kicked into gear claiming that Karl had been given a "doctored" transcript and that "that" was the only real scandal here -- not the fact that the White House repeatedly lied about the administration's role in watering down the talking points into something that was both totally false and very helpful to Obama's re-election bid.
Working together again, the White House and Media Matters have spent the last week attempting the herculean task of turning the Benghazi-scandal battleship around in the hopes of attacking conservatives. Washington Post factchecker, Glenn Kessler, just destroyed that cynical maneuver.
After Jonathan Karl of ABC News reported that emails proved that the Obama administration had in fact taken a major role in the shaping of the final draft of the CIA's Libya talking points, the actual transcript of a single email was leaked to CNN's Jake Tapper (probably by the White House).
Karl had not seen the actual email and based his reporting on a summary provided to him by a source. Karl quoted an email written by Obama's national security adviser Ben Rhodes this way:
We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation. We thus will work through the talking points tomorrow morning at the Deputies Committee meeting.
Tapper reported that Rhodes actual email read this way:
We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation….We can take this up tomorrow morning at deputies.
Immediately the Left-Wing Outrage Machine kicked into gear claiming that Karl had been given a "doctored" transcript and that "that" was the only real scandal here -- not the fact that the White House repeatedly lied about the administration's role in watering down the talking points into something that was both totally false and very helpful to Obama's re-election bid.