The Blood Is On your Hands Obama Not anyone else

I am sure that Bush is feeling left out on this one Obama and his administration are blaming Romney for Benghazu. Obama refusing to admit it was his fault that Americans died from his neglect and needs to make someone the scapegoat like Hitler blamed all the Jews for depression. Some of the Right wing radical Christian Conservatives are doing the same thing with Obama, But in my last few Blogs I already explained that Jews are not the majority and neither is white Christian America.

The Blood Is On your Hands Muslim  Obama Not anyone else

Any way lets get back on the subject. It's all Romneys fault and for once it's not Bush. Huummmmm ......

White House spokesman feels Benghazi pressure, blames Mitt Romney for taking 'political advantage of these deaths'

• Pressure mounts as a Republican senator and a liberal columnist both road-test the word 'impeachment'
• Carney insists the administration's Benghazi talking points memo reflected the CIA's best intelligence
• An early CIA draft says 'we do know' an al-Qaeda influenced group participated in the attack, but the official version omitted terror references
• Key question: Did political appointees direct the CIA to change its tune so the president wouldn't look soft on terror just weeks before the election?

 By DAVID MARTOSKO IN WASHINGTON

PUBLISHED: 17:51 EST, 10 May 2013 | UPDATED: 17:56 EST, 10 May 2013

 White House Press Secretary Jay Carney stumbled Friday in a routine press briefing that turned ugly, when reporters asked why a CIA-approved set of talking points about last year's terror attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya were edited 12 times - seemingly with the influence of Obama administration political appointees.

Carney took swipes at Republicans and faced hostile questions from a press corps that grew impatient with the government's answers to questions about the Sept 11, 2012 deadly, al-Qaeda-inspired mayhem.

Many reporters were equally impatient with the White House Press Office, which rescheduled the regular daily briefing twice, first holding instead a closed-door background session with 14 selected reporters.

While Carney initially promised that he would remain in the briefing room 'as long as you want' to answer reporters' questions, he left abruptly with many hands still in the air.

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White House spokesman Jay Carney denied Republican accusations of a cover-up in last year's deadly attack in Libya, trying to defuse a renewed political controversy after 12 drafts of a talking-points memo emerged, showing an attempt to omit references to Islamic terrorism in the midst of an election capmaign

Carney slammed Republican 2012 presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whom he said 'put out a press release to try and take political advantage of these deaths' -- and then corrected himself: 'of the attack in Benghazi'

Terrorists destroyed the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi during the 2012 presidential campaign, leading Republicans to suggest that downplaying the impact of active terrorists in Libya was a tactic to deflect concerns that the president was weak on Islamic terrorism.

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Responding to questions about whether the Obama administration sought to avoid those political consequences, Carney took a shot at Mitt Romney, the president's opponent.

The former Republican governor of Massachusetts, he said, 'put out a press release to try and take political advantage of these deaths.'

Carney quickly corrected himself: 'Of the attack in Benghazi.'

At issue is language the CIA prepared for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Its initial draft held, in part, that 'We believe ... the attacks in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired ... [but] we do know that Islamic extremists with ties to al Qa'ida participated in the attack.'

Twelve revisions later, and after emailed input from State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, the final version issued Sept. 15 read that 'currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired ... [but] there are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations.'

All mentions of Islamic terrorism, al-Qaeda and the 'attack' itself were scrubbed from the talking points by the time US Secretary Susan Rice blamed the deadly incident on an anti-Islam YouTube video, during five talk show appearances on Sept. 16.

 

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Carney held Friday to his previous statements, insisting that the intelligence community was solely responsible for the substantive edits.

'The CIA, in this case deputy director of the CIA ... issued a set of talking points on that Saturday morning,' Carney said, 'and those talking points were disseminated. And the only edit made by the White House or the State Department ... was a change in referring to the facility that was attacked as a "consulate" -- because it was not a consulate -- to "diplomatic post."'

But reporters questioned Carney's parsing of words, asking if the State Department's influence was felt by the CIA, which then adapted its talking points to suit political appointees.

Carney said the State Department was included in the working group that edited the CIA's draft, 'since it was a State Department facility that was attacked.'

Carney accused unnamed Republicans of leaking a series of emails to ABC News on Friday. Those communications, the network reported, spell out the trail of edits across 12 separate versions of the talking points.

The White House, he said, provided the emails in question to the U.S. Senate months ago, in response to a request related to the confirmation of the incoming CIA director, John Brennan.

'The administration took the rather extraordinary step of providing those emails' to senators 'in late February and through March,' Carney said. Senate Republicans voted to confirm Brennan after seeing 'all of these emails which, of course, now they've leaked to reporters.'

 Carney held Friday to his previous statements, insisting that the intelligence community was solely responsible for the substantive edits.

'The CIA, in this case deputy director of the CIA ... issued a set of talking points on that Saturday morning,' Carney said, 'and those talking points were disseminated. And the only edit made by the White House or the State Department ... was a change in referring to the facility that was attacked as a "consulate" -- because it was not a consulate -- to "diplomatic post."'

But reporters questioned Carney's parsing of words, asking if the State Department's influence was felt by the CIA, which then adapted its talking points to suit political appointees.

Carney said the State Department was included in the working group that edited the CIA's draft, 'since it was a State Department facility that was attacked.'

Carney accused unnamed Republicans of leaking a series of emails to ABC News on Friday. Those communications, the network reported, spell out the trail of edits across 12 separate versions of the talking points.

The White House, he said, provided the emails in question to the U.S. Senate months ago, in response to a request related to the confirmation of the incoming CIA director, John Brennan.

'The administration took the rather extraordinary step of providing those emails' to senators 'in late February and through March,' Carney said. Senate Republicans voted to confirm Brennan after seeing 'all of these emails which, of course, now they've leaked to reporters.'

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland's emails show that the agency, then headed by Hillary Clinton, had a direct hand in suggesting alterations to the official story on the Benghazi terror attack

ABC News uncovered 12 versions of the infamous Benghazi talking points, along with emails suggesting that Nuland - then Hillary Clinton's chief spokesperson - was chiefly interested in political considerations less than two months before the presidential elections

Although Republicans have called on the White House to release unclassified versions of all internal administration emails related to what they term a Benghazi 'cover-up,' Carney said the administration would not comply.

'Internal deliberations are generally protected information,' he noted.

The Freedom of Information Act includes a list of nine exceptions to government transparency rules, including the provision that 'a privileged inter-agency or intra-agency memorandum or letter' need not be disclosed.

But it's unclear whether that rule applies to Congress, or whether Republicans on Capitol Hill will drop the now-intensely politicized issue. Four Americans perished in the terror attack on Benghazi, including then-Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.

He conceded that one feature of the talking points, its claim that spontaneous demonstrations preceded the Benghazi terror attack, turned out to be flawed. But reporters focused more on sins of omission on which the White House is now referring questions to the CIA.

'You should direct those questions to the intelligence community,' Carney said after one journalist asked whether the CIA's first draft - which included references to al-Qaeda - was accurate before it was edited.

These bloodstains at the main gate of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya are believed to belong to an American staff member. Four U.S. personnel, including ambassador Chris Stevens, died in the Sept. 11, 2012 terror attack

The normally unflappable Jay Carney seemed to struggle Friday to answer questions, in a hostile briefing that was delayed twice and pushed near the end of the work day when most of the day's news cycle was over

It's an open question whether the White House will be able to rest blame for the ultimately flawed talking points with intelligence agencies despite the State Department's now-documented influence over the process.

But one reporter was heard in the press briefing room after Carney departed, speculating about applying the press secretary's standard of responsibility to his cooking.

'So if I have this soup recipe that I know is great, and my wife tells me over and over to put different things into it instead, and I do what she asks, and then it turns out awful, whose fault is it?' the reporter, who asked not to be named, said.

Indeed, Carney said 'No' when asked if he could deny that the second and subsequent CIA drafts of the Benghazi talking points came after input from the State Department.

But 'these are talking points,' he reflected. 'Not policy.'

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