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CBS Report claims Republican altered Benghazi emails

[quote]One day after The White House released 100 pages of Benghazi emails, a report has surfaced alleging that Republicans released a set with altered text. CBS News reported Thursday that leaked versions sent out by the GOP last Friday had visible differences than Wednesday's official batch. Two correspondences that were singled out in the report came from National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes and State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. The GOP version of Rhodes' comment, according to CBS News: "We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don't want to undermine the FBI investigation." The White House email: "We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation." The GOP version of Nuland's comment, according to CBS News: The penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency (CIA) about al-Qaeda's presence and activities of al-Qaeda." The White House email: "The penultimate point could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings." The news parallels a Tuesday CNN report which initially introduced the contradiction between what was revealed in a White House Benghazi email version, versus what was reported in media outlets. On Monday, Mother Jones noted that the Republicans' interim report included the correct version of the emails, signaling that more malice and less incompetence may have been at play with the alleged alterations. In that April interim report on Benghazi (which Buck noted), the House Republicans cited these emails (in footnotes 56 and 57) to note an important point: "State Department emails reveal senior officials had 'serious concerns' about the talking points, because Members of Congress might attack the State Department for 'not paying attention to Agency warnings' about the growing threat in Benghazi." Despite the White House's Wednesday move to release emails, Republicans continued to call for more information on Thursday. "While these hundred are good and they shed light on what happened, we have nearly 25,000 that they haven't released," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told Fox News on Thursday.[/quote] Controversy works both ways...

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  • Now that there is an actual scandal (the IRS one), you would think everyone would drop the whole Libya thing. It's been close to a year of arguing over how many hours it took to determine what kind of terrorist attack it was.

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    • This CBS claim has [i]already[/i] been discredited. Nice try.

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    • [b]OBAMA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE IRS SCANDAL SHUT UP YOU STUPID LIBERALS AND ACTUALLY LISTEN TO UNBIASED NEWS LIKE FOX[/b]

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    • I'm not going to bother clicking the link, but is there actual evidence that what CBS claims is true? Because all your post says is that CBS is claiming these things. Also, those differences don't seem like they would be very important, though I'd suspect the fact that they might have been changed is more important than the actual changes.

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      • One could also just as easily claim the White House released e-mails were altered from the Republican e-mails which were the true ones. Just sayin'.

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        • Most people don't research information enough to get the details and the exact truth about things. Their only news source is probably some channel on TV that shows them what the news [i]wants[/i] to show them, or they hear it from another person. I knew about this earlier today though. Harder to keep up with current events being away and all.

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        • You're surprised? We've known for quite sometime both of those parties are corrupt, awful and dangerous. Stop voting for them or you will continue to get Big Government and business as usual.

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        • This is why I don't care about these big events in the media. Everybody gets all worked up day one and a week later it turns out the media gave false information or someone lied. I just wait until everything is solved before i get involved.

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          • This is why I don't listen to them when they say they're being honest.

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          • Doesn't surprise me.

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