Among the documents received, one in particular was an email from senior Obama advisor Ben Rhodes with the subject line titled, “Prep Call With Susan,” that states within the document that one of the objectives of the planned call was to:
“To underscore that these political protests were rooted in an internet video, not a broader failure of policy.”
Tim Brown at Freedom Outpost Reports:
Newly obtained emails by Judicial Watch point way past the State Department’s twisting of the Benghazi talking points following the September 11, 2012 jihad attacks that left four Americans dead.
Judicial Watch reports:
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that on April 18, 2014, it obtained 41 new Benghazi-related State Department documents. They include a newly declassified email showing
then-White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes and
other Obama administration public relations officials attempting to
orchestrate a campaign to “reinforce” President Obama and to portray the
Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet
video, and not a failure of policy.” Other documents show that State
Department officials initially described the incident as an “attack” and
a possible kidnap attempt.
The
documents were released Friday as result of a June 21, 2013, Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the Department of State (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No.
1:13-cv-00951)) to gain access to documents about the controversial
talking points used by then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice for a series of
appearances on television Sunday news programs on September 16, 2012.
Judicial Watch had been seeking these documents since October 18, 2012.
The Rhodes email was
sent on sent on Friday, September 14, 2012, at 8:09 p.m. with the
subject line: “RE: PREP CALL with Susan, Saturday at 4:00 pm ET.” The
documents show that the “prep” was for Amb. Rice’s Sunday news show
appearances to discuss the Benghazi attack.
The
document lists as a “Goal”: “To underscore that these protests are
rooted in and Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy.”
Rhodes returns to the “Internet video” scenario later in the email, the first point in a section labeled “Top-lines”:
[W]e’ve
made our views on this video crystal clear. The United States government
had nothing to do with it. We reject its message and its contents. We
find it disgusting and reprehensible. But there is absolutely no
justification at all for responding to this movie with violence. And we
are working to make sure that people around the globe hear that message.
Among the
top administration PR personnel who received the Rhodes memo were White
House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Deputy Press Secretary Joshua Earnest, then-White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, then-White House Deputy Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, then-National Security Council Director of Communications Erin Pelton, Special Assistant to the Press Secretary Howli Ledbetter, and then-White House Senior Advisor and political strategist David Plouffe.
However, in
another email sent by former Deputy Spokesman at U.S. Mission to the
United Nations Payton Knopf to Susan Rice on September 12, 2012, he
wrote:
Responding
to a question about whether it was an organized terror attack, Toria
said that she couldn’t speak to the identity of the perpetrators but
that it was clearly a complex attack.
In another email dated September 11, 2012, Senior Advisor Eric Pelofsky wrote to Susan Rice:
As
reported, the Benghazi compound came under attack and it took a bit of
time for the ‘Annex’ colleagues and Libyan February 17 brigade to secure
it. One of our colleagues was killed – IMO Sean Smith. Amb Chris
Stevens, who was visiting Benghazi this week is missing. U.S. and Libyan
colleagues are looking for him…
Rice would later appear on five Sunday shows and knowingly lie to the American public. However, she was only one of many who lied. Both
Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah and Hillary Clinton knowingly and
willingly lied to the families of the victims and the American people
about the attacks in Benghazi.
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