re: Benghazi

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Not really. Obama called it an act of terror the very next day in his press briefing on it. The video wasn't even mentioned until 5 days after the attack when Rice went on one of the Sunday morning talk shows and mentioned it. And the video talking point came from the CIA.

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All incorrect.

Obama said we would respond to acts of terror. When asked directly on multiple separate occasions whether or not Benghazi was a terror attack, he declined to answer.

The latest emails show that the video talking points came from the White House, not the CIA. Emails which have been withheld from the congressional investigation until this week. If the administration hadn't stonewalled on this issue, it wouldn't still be an issue.

Of course, the real underlying question is why were we supplying MANPADs to Al Qaeda affiliated groups. But that's an actual real policy issue and we should instead pretend this is all internecine warfare of the political nature over nothing of actual consequence.