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Came on this and a four other talk shows. i want to put up a couple of e-mails from friday the 14th two days before susan rice made the television appearance. friday, 6:48 p.m. the white house. fyi brennan that is the counter terrorism advisor will have ed details. i m waiting for those. 7:49 p.m. victoria nuland. talking points could be abused by members of congress to beat the state department for not paying attention to agency warnings so why do we want to feed that either. here is what the president s spokesman jay carney said about all of this last november. take a look. the white house and state department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of these two institutions were changing the word consulate to diplomatic facility because consulate was inaccurate. chris: that is the problem. he says it was a single adjustment by the white house ....
The two days before susan rice came on this and a four other talk shows. i want to put up a couple of e-mails from friday the 14th two days before susan rice made the television appearance. friday, 6:48 p.m. the white house. fyi brennan that is the counter terrorism advisor will have ed details. i m waiting for those. 7:49 p.m. victoria nuland. talking points could be abused by members of congress to beat the state department for not paying attention to agency warnings so why do we want to feed that either. here is what the president s spokesman jay carney said about all of this last november. take a look. the white house and state department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of these two institutions were changing the word consulate to diplomatic facility because consulate was inaccurate. chris: that is the problem. he says it was a single adjustment by the white house ....
That language raised red flags at the state department where victoria nuland e-mailed that the mention of prior attacks could be abused by members of congress to beat the state department for not paying attention to agency warnings. so why would we want to feed that either? concerned. at white house meeting the following day, officials further diluted the language. that sunday susan rice followed the talking points on all five talk shows. what happened in benghazi was, in fact, initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo. reporter: once that assessment was discounted, the white house insisted it had only changed one word and on friday stood by its story. the cia was the agency that made changes to the edits i mean to the talking points and then produced the talking points. reporter: a thorny issue for the obama administration and analysts say perhaps a larger problem for former secretary of state hillary clinton said to be ....
At it and comment, and what we now know is that one of the senior state department officials, victoria nuland, raised some concerns and we have quotes, this is quotes that have been determined by our sources who reviewed the e-mails we dot no have possession of the e-mails. part of what we know when the reference is made in the talking points to an al qaeda linked group, she says, why would we want the hill fingering al sharia if we aren t doing that ourselves until we have an investigation result. this could be used by members to beat the state department to not paying attention to agency warnings so why would we want to feed that either? concerned. we learned after that there were other discussions and changes were made. ultimately a top white house official, ben rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, also weighed in and expressed concern that all of the concerns needed to be looked at. we have information that he participated in at least one ....
Stricken. all of that came out because it looks, it appears that victoria nuland was voicing her, quote, serious concerns about that draft and worried that members of congress would use the talking points to criticize the state department for, quote, not paying attention to agency warnings. right on, victoria! yep. she s spot on. and as a communications professional, i can understand trying to put the best spin on it. i could never understand asking the intelligence community to absolutely change the facts of the guidance they were providing and then two days later that s friday night. they go through three rounds, there is a 6:30 round, another one at 7:30, another one at 9:30. now they re getting somewhere because basically they re going to blame a video that they have this comes out of nowhere, susan rice goes on the sunday shows megyn: governor we get to susan rice. as you say, they go through several drafts of this and victoria keeps writing back that her superiors remai ....