President Obama Still Can’t Keep the Facts Straight on Benghazi One would think that after it was reported the administration purposefully misled the public about what happened in Benghazi, President Obama would have his facts straight by now. Not even close. Questioned at an abbreviated press conference today about his administration’s public explanation of last year’s terrorist attack in Libya, the president offered a response that doesn’t jibe with the facts. Rather than getting some candor from the president today, the American people heard only a number of baseless claims that require fact checking. CLAIM: “The emails that you allude to were provided by us to congressional committees. They reviewed them several months ago – concluded that in fact, there was nothing afoul in terms of the process that we had used.” – President Obama (Press Conference, 5/13/13) • REALITY: In fact, the improper drafting and handling of the administration’s talking points wasone of the key findings in the interim report released on April 23rd by the five committees investigating this matter: “In the days following the attacks, White House and senior State Department officials altered accurate talking points drafted by the Intelligence Community in order to protect the State [...]
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