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Home Front: WoT
Report: Petraeus Thought Benghazi Talking Points 'Essentially Useless'
2013-05-12
Benghazi posts that reference the home front should be posted in 'Home Front: WoT'. Thanks. AoS.
ABC's Jonathan Karl, who broke news on the multiple revisions to the Obama administration's Benghazi talking points, added a new piece to the puzzle on Sunday, revealing that then-CIA director David Petraeus thought the final product was "essentially useless."

Those particular words are Karl's, but he quotes from an e-mail in which Petraeus, who only put eyes on the talking points the afternoon before Susan Rice's infamous Sunday Show tour, says of the talking points "I would just as soon not use them, but it's their [the White House's] call."

The talking points had been denuded of any reference to terrorism, al-Qaeda, or Ansar al-Sharia, the local jihadist group who took credit for the murder of four Americans and the destruction of the U.S. facility in Benghazi.
Posted by:tipper

#2  Not really. The email was dated just prior to the White House releasing the talking points.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-05-12 17:21  

#1  Has the general's opinion of the talking points evolved ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-05-12 13:25  

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