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WaPo: Petraeus Influenced Benghazi Talking Points in His Favor
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:56 PM

By: Matthew Auerbach

The decisions made by former CIA Director David Petraeus after a meeting with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the wake of last year’s Benghazi attack are considered the pivotal moments in the controversy over the Obama administration’s talking points regarding the incident, reports the Washington Post.

Meeting informally with the committee three days after the assault, Petraeus, then director of the CIA, was asked by Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger III, D-Md., to guarantee committee members did not inadvertently let classified information slip when talking to the media about the attack.

“We had some new members on the committee, and we knew the press would be very aggressive on this, so we didn’t want any of them to make mistakes,” Ruppersberger said.

“We didn’t want to jeopardize sources and methods, and we didn’t want to tip off the bad guys. That’s all.”

The committee got much more than it asked for and therein lies the controversy.

It was Petraeus’ initial input that created the administration’s version of the attack, resulting in two days of intensive editing that congressional Republicans view as evidence of a cover-up by the White House.

Recently released government e-mails that were sent during the editing process and interviews with senior officials from several government agencies reveal Petraeus went far beyond what was asked of him.

Some see this as an attempt by Petraeus to produce a set of talking points favorable to his image and that of the CIA.

The information Petraeus set forth included early classified intelligence assessments of who might be responsible for the attack as well as an account of prior CIA warnings, the latter putting Petraeus at odds with the State Department, the FBI and senior CIA officials.

The White House apparently did not object to the Petraeus talking points, seeing itself as a mediator in the war of words between the CIA’s top lawyer and the agency’s deputy director, who both expressed opposition to what Petraeus wanted.

“What [committee members] were looking for was the lowest common denominator,” said an anonymous senior administration official.

“That’s not what the agency originally produced.”

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Re: WaPo: Petraeus Influenced Benghazi Talking Points in His Favor
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2016, 08:29:55 pm »
Just saw this on Facebook (posted by someone on Allen West's page), and as it references both Benghazi and Petraeus, thought it might be interesting:
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So here's the REAL story. Amb. Stevens was sent to Benghazi post haste in order to retrieve US made Stinger missiles supplied to Ansar al Sharia without Congressional oversight or permission.

Hillary brokered the deal through Stevens and a private arms dealer named Marc Turi. Then some of the shoulder fired missiles ended up in Afghanistan used against our own military. It was July 25th, 2012 when a Chinook helicopter was taken down by one of our own Stingers, but the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile and the Chinook didn't explode, but had to land anyway. An ordnance team recovered the serial number off the missile which led back to a cache of Stingers being kept in Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were now in full panic mode and Stevens was sent in to retrieve the rest of the Stingers. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the stand down orders given to multiple commando teams.

 It was the State Dept, not the CIA that supplied them to our sworn enemies, because Petraeus wouldn't supply these deadly weapons due to their potential use on commercial aircraft. Then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus after he refused to testify that he OK'd the BS talking points about a spontaneous uprising due to a Youtube video.

Obama and Hillary committed treason...and THIS is what the investigation is all about, why she had a private server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and why Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was because of a Youtube video, even though everyone knew it was not.

 Further...the Taliban knew that this administration aided and abetted the enemy without Congressional approval when Boehner created the Select Cmte, and the Taliban began pushing the Obama Administration for the release of 5 Taliban Generals. Bowe Bergdahl was just a pawn...everyone KNEW he was a traitor.

 So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised...and a woman that is a serial liar, perjured herself multiple times at the Hearing whom is running for POTUS. Only the Dems, with their hands out, palms up, will support her. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft was called in...because the administration knew our enemies had Stingers.
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