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Topic: Cherry-picking intelligence
for political gain? |
Cherry-picking intelligence
for political gain?
Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By:drive, 10/1/2012 12:46:32 PM
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| Eli Lake, who has broken story after story on the Libya embassy attack, is out with another report. This one provides damning evidence that the Obama administration cherry-picked from initial intelligence to justify its “the video made them do it” cover story for what was very quickly known to be a coordinated al-Qaeda-related assault. He explains that in “so-called talking points written by the CIA and distributed to members of Congress and other government official” three days after the attacks a single strand of information was lifted out of the intelligence data to height
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
dman, 10/1/2012 12:51:51 PM (No. 8902291)
What is infuriating is the Dem claim that anyone who questions the WH account is "politicizing" the issue. The WH politicized this from the get-go.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Kurto, 10/1/2012 1:17:12 PM (No. 8902348)
Ø & hellary don/t cherry-pick the facts. They just pull this stuff right out of their backsides.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
trapper, 10/1/2012 1:42:06 PM (No. 8902397)
"Was the CIA pushing the “spontaneous” theory because of a complete security failure on the danger to U.S. diplomats in Libya?"
Here's a different question, Jen: Was the "spontaneous demonstration over a video" really a prepackaged narrative planned and launched by the Obama folks, just like the War on Women was? Hired rent-a-mobs, guards with no bullets so no one gets hurt, a lickspittle general phoning up an irrelvant anti-islamic minister and issuing a press release about it, a Newsweek cover ready to go, all leading up to and culminating with a UN speech by Obama declaring to whom the future belongs, and to whom it does not.
Two distinct and separate sequences of events now being deliberately blurred and muddled together: 1) a bit of political theater put on by the Obama political folks, and 2) Alquaeda rolling up CIA's operations in Libya. Neither has anything to do with the other, and to make the picture come clear on either, it is necessary to completely ignore the other one.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 10/1/2012 2:29:40 PM (No. 8902490)
Did the administration choose the narrative to boost approval for its internet control policy that Janet Napolitano is formulating?
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