White House spokesman Jay Carney on Monday spoke out against conservative lawmakers and some media outlets for pushing “conspiracy theories” about the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks.
“There is a problem when you have so many conspiracy theories that get knocked down by the facts, and yet the adherents to those theories only become more convinced that the facts aren’t what they so clearly are,” Carney said in a press briefing.
Carney’s comments came in reference to a newly released email that shows a White House aide discussing talking points related to the attacks. He said conspiracy theories surrounding that memo are stoked by some authorities in the Republican Party as well as “media outlets who pound that message into those who are predisposed to believe it.”
Carney then traced the origins of the “politicization” of the Benghazi attacks to the “scathingly political statement” former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney gave soon after the incident.
Asked whether the White House would cooperate with a new select committee tasked with investigating the 2012 attacks, Carney said “We have always cooperated with legitimate oversight.”
the link to the Romney quote he “gave soon after the event” just links back to this same article?
benghazi and jerrys is out with a new flavor.
Fox Spox: Some people are saying that Bengazi was actually a martian landing…
Fox News Anchor: Speculation grows as to the martian landing at Bengazi
Fox WH Correspondent: Does the White House or President have any statement to make about what many are saying was a martian landing at Bengazi?
WH Spox: That’s just nonsense.
Fox News Anchor: Breaking News! White House stonewalling on martian landing at Bengazi… we’re waiting reaction from House GOP leadership.
Fox News Roundtable: The President is pretty clearly covering up something here… why won’t they come clean about a martian landing? Congressman Issa – your thoughts?
And round and round we go on bullsh*t mountain.
brilliant. call them what they are. conspiracy theories.
nice to see the WHPress on their effing toes for a change.
Remember when we heard that secretly taped “fundraiser” audio of Romney salivating at the thought of exploiting some “Iranian hostage” situation against Obama, in order to destroy his credibility just as the GOP did with Carter?
This was Pre-Benghazi. Then, mere hours after the attacks, he tossed out pre-warmed talking points which attempted to do just that? I’ve always been baffled by why this isn’t the bigger story.