Arrogant White House blows off Benghazi emails: We get 'emails about all sorts of information'

Hey, you silly wingnuts, you know those emails showing that the White House knew within two hours that a militant Islamist group claimed responsibility for the Benghzi terror attack on Sept. 11?

https://twitter.com/seanagnew/statuses/261134555535273984

Totally no biggie, says White House press secretary Jay Carney. Not even “bumps in the road.” Behold the dizzying spin:

Carney on AF1: "There were emails about all sorts of information that was coming available in the aftermath of the attack…"

— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) October 24, 2012

Carney: "This is an open source, unclassified email about a posting on a Facebook site…within a few hours the organization…"

— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) October 24, 2012

Carney: "…claimed that it had not been responsible. Neither should be taken as fact. That is why there is an investigation."

— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) October 24, 2012

Of course. The White House gets loads of emails about a whole lotta stuff and prioritizing is hard work. Why, you should’ve seen the one about Romney bending over in front of a kid. Hilarious! And you know, one of these days, responding to those Nigerian princes is gonna pay off big time.

Jake Tapper has more on the White House’s revolting CYA attempt.

White House officials maintained that the emails don’t contradict what the White House believed at that point, based on the intelligence community’s assessment of the attack. The views of the intelligence community are valued far more than Facebook and twitter claims, officials said, describing that email as an unclassified ops alert email, not a vetted intelligence assessment. It was not definitive, but rather the act of flagging open source reporting referencing a Facebook post, and – officials noted — on September 17, Ansar al-Sharia denied responsibility for the attack.

Carney today told reporters that there were emails about all sorts of information that was coming available in the aftermath of the attack. “There was a variety of information coming in,” Carney said. “The whole point of an intelligence community and what they do is to assess strands of information and make judgments about what happened and who was responsible.”

Moreover, officials said, the intelligence community still believes there wasn’t a tremendous amount of planning before the attack. A terrorist group carrying it out doesn’t mean it wasn’t an opportunistic attack, officials said.

Arrogant White House blows off Benghazi emails: We get 'emails about all sorts of information'

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