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New
Emails Reveal Obama White House Worked on Concocting Benghazi Lie
DURING the Attacks
By
Matthew Burke
May
23, 2014
House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said
on Thursday that the Obama White House was contacting YouTube owner
Google during the Benghazi terrorist attacks, working on the false
narrative even before Americans were out of harm’s way and before
the intelligence community examined available evidence.
The
still classified Obama State Department email, according to Issa,
shows that the Obama White House rushed to settle on the false
narrative of the anti-Islamic YouTube video instigating the attacks,
which was completely at odds with the conclusions reached by reports
from the ground.
This
new evidence destroys the Obama White House claims, communicated by
Obama spokesman Jay Carney, that the White House obtained the false
narrative from CIA talking points, since, according to Congressman
Issa, the communication with YouTube was conducted by the Obama White
House before any CIA talking points were concocted.
The
subject line of the email, ironically sent at 9:11 p.m. (the attacks
took place on 9/11/12) on the night of the attack, was “Update on
Response to actions – Libya,” hours before the attack had ended.
“The
e-mail shows the White House had hurried to settle on a false
narrative — one at odds with the conclusions reached by those on
the ground — before Americans were even out of harm’s way or the
intelligence community had made an impartial examination of available
evidence,” Issa said.
Issa
has called for the Obama White House to declassify the email.
According
to Issa, one of the items noted in the email stated, “White House
is reaching out to U-Tube [sic] to advise ramifications of the
posting of the Pastor Jon video.”
Issa
scolded current Secretary of State, Democrat John Kerry, for just now
turning over a classified version of the email, some 20 months after
the attack, while calling on the regime to release a unclassified
copy.
“Unfortunately,
Secretary Kerry and the State Department continue to try to keep this
information from the public, only turning this document over to
Congress last month. While the information I have cited from this
email is clearly unclassified, the State Department has attempted to
obstruct its disclosure by not providing Congress with an
unclassified copy of this document that redacted only classified
portions outlining what the Department of Defense and the Secretary
of State were doing in response to the attack in Benghazi that
night.”
“This
tactic prevents the release of the email itself,” said Issa.
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