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In response to "I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to be upset about here. -- nm" by Roger More

During the presidential campaign TD administration, and it's representatives deliberately gave false information to the public re why the attack

Posted by No. 1 Stephen in the nation! (aka Sceire) Nov 28 '12, 13:18

occurred.

It's one thing that the talking points were changed and no one knows who the hell changed it. It's another that Rice went out on the circuit and knowingly pushed a story that they knew at the time was patently false.

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That almost echoes 2002. Almost. -- nm - Max Nov 28, 13:37
I'll say again, I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to get upset about. - Roger More Nov 28, 13:26 3
- Because the administration had made the claim prior to the attack that al Qaeda was "on it's heels" - No. 1 Stephen in the nation! Nov 28, 13:39 2
  - I'll keep this on B2 - but that's not convincing to me. Say it's true - it would buy, like, a day before the real story came out - Roger More Nov 28, 13:49 1
    - Except that the lie continued for several weeks... - No. 1 Stephen in the nation! Nov 28, 13:58
The Administration would intentionally push a "patently false" story to avoid bad PR...unlike pushing a "patently false" story, which is great PR? - musubi Nov 28, 13:22
that's certainly one way to see it... -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 28, 13:19 9
- They knew that there was no protest over that video, and thus the attack didn't occur because if a protest over the video... - No. 1 Stephen in the nation! Nov 28, 13:23 8
  - That *at the time* it was not clear that the protest the attackers used as cover *wasn't* related to the video -- nm - TWuG Nov 28, 13:29 1
    - There were no protests in Benghazi. - No. 1 Stephen in the nation! Nov 28, 13:46
  - They knew after the events that there were almost no protests. - Mel Profit Nov 28, 13:28 5
    - For all we knew, there were WMDs there. -- nm - Spawn Nov 28, 13:37 1
      - Sure...if you listened to Rumsfeld special intel shop at the Pentagon... - Mel Profit Nov 28, 13:43
    - Seriously. It's like "well, if we know it *now* we must always have known it." That's shit logic. -- nm - TWuG Nov 28, 13:31 2
      - Tuesday, for the first time, Rice stated outright that there was never any protest or demonstration - No. 1 Stephen in the nation! Nov 28, 13:41
      - From what I heard last week the CIA talking points were changed at a deputies meeting... - Mel Profit Nov 28, 13:40

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