[h=4]Alex Wong/Getty Images[/h] Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) holds photo of slain embassy guard Wednesday as White House revealed emails about its Benghazi response.
WASHINGTON — A White House document dump Wednesday fueled further charges that the Obama administration spun the Benghazi terror attack during the week that followed the deadly assault.
Under pressure from Congress, the White House released 99 pages of emails that detail conflict between the State Department and intelligence officials over how UN ambassador Susan Rice would discuss the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
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Then-CIA Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points that Rice ended up using on five news shows after the assault. He wanted to see more details released, including a warning issued from the CIA about plans for a break-in at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, a newly released email shows.
One document was a single page of handwritten notes made by Petraeus’ deputy, Mike Morell, after a meeting at the White House the day before Rice’s appearance. Morell scratched out from the CIA’s early drafts of talking points mentions of Al Qaeda and a warning to the Cairo embassy on Sept. 10 about calls for a demonstration and break-in by jihadists.
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“No mention of the cable to Cairo, either?” Petraeus wrote after receiving Morell’s edited version, developed after an intense back-and-forth among Obama administration officials. “Frankly, I’d just as soon not use this, then.”
House Republicans read some of the emails aloud last Wednesday at a hearing with State Department officials. The next day, House Speaker John Boehner called on the White House to release the emails.
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A Boehner spokesman said Wednesday the emails “contradict statements made by the White House that it and the State Department only changed one word in the talking points.”
WASHINGTON — A White House document dump Wednesday fueled further charges that the Obama administration spun the Benghazi terror attack during the week that followed the deadly assault.
Under pressure from Congress, the White House released 99 pages of emails that detail conflict between the State Department and intelligence officials over how UN ambassador Susan Rice would discuss the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
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Then-CIA Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points that Rice ended up using on five news shows after the assault. He wanted to see more details released, including a warning issued from the CIA about plans for a break-in at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, a newly released email shows.
One document was a single page of handwritten notes made by Petraeus’ deputy, Mike Morell, after a meeting at the White House the day before Rice’s appearance. Morell scratched out from the CIA’s early drafts of talking points mentions of Al Qaeda and a warning to the Cairo embassy on Sept. 10 about calls for a demonstration and break-in by jihadists.
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“No mention of the cable to Cairo, either?” Petraeus wrote after receiving Morell’s edited version, developed after an intense back-and-forth among Obama administration officials. “Frankly, I’d just as soon not use this, then.”
House Republicans read some of the emails aloud last Wednesday at a hearing with State Department officials. The next day, House Speaker John Boehner called on the White House to release the emails.
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A Boehner spokesman said Wednesday the emails “contradict statements made by the White House that it and the State Department only changed one word in the talking points.”