The White House has just released 100 pages of emails showing edits to the administration’s talking points on the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. The press will have some digging to do, but to be honest, 100 pages is not all that much, and Roll Call’s Steven Dennis thinks he’s found the juiciest page: the one showing CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell’s handwritten edits.
A PDF of the emails dumped today is available here, but Morell’s scribbling out of paragraphs of information is perhaps the most dramatic edit among the batch. What was scratched out? The bit about the advance warning of the attempt to break into the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, all references to Al Qaeda, and reports of five recent attacks on foreign interests in Benghazi. The thing is, we already knew all of this from the hearings. We suspected this too:
White House releases 100 pages of emails on Benghazi talking points. One of the discussed passages (via @CNN) pic.twitter.com/TMFAzzMwIR
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) May 15, 2013
Nuland worries that members of Congress might "beat the State Dept for not paying attention" to CIA warnings about Benghazi.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 15, 2013
More, please?
Initial CIA talking points email dated 9/14 – three days after the attacks in Benghazi.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 15, 2013
https://twitter.com/kendallaudio/status/334785793426071552
#2missingdays RT @KatiePavlich: So, the White House gave us 100 pages of emails that are from three days after the 9/11 attack. #nicetry
— Chris Field (@ChrisMField) May 15, 2013
White House Releases Emails on #Benghazi. It took this long to blackout everything in 100+ pages except the "To" and "From" I guess
— Behind Enemy Lines (@BushwackCA) May 15, 2013
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Just read the #Benghazi emails. The ONLY thing you take away from it was that there was absolutely ZERO intelligence on the Youtube vid.
— Wes Eklund (@WesEklund) May 15, 2013
Keep in mind, Hillary Clinton was linking the #Benghazi attack to the Youtube video on Sept 12th, two days before these e-mails.
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) May 15, 2013
The WH releases 100 emails on Benghazi conflict. 100 emails over an entire conflict. I'm pretty sure I received over 100 emails today.
— Gregory Parker (@GParker812) May 15, 2013
https://twitter.com/RunMichigan/status/334785197864271872
BTW there are at least 25,000 docs they have but won't give us @jaketapper @CNNSitRoom #benghazi
— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) May 15, 2013
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