Pro-Obama SuperPac PrioritiesUSA returns to the Bain attack for the final push to November.
One reason the Benghazi controversy has always seemed so bogus to me is that I’ve never bought the core premise, which is that the administration had any clear political reason or advantage to gain by claiming the attack was tied to the video as opposed to a pre-planned assault. (Here’s our look at how Benghazi evolved into a GOP talking point.) In addition to a great number of hacks peddling this idea, some people I respect a great deal seem to credit the idea too. But again, it doesn’t add up to me.
However that may be, the factual premise itself now seems to be coming apart. In this morning’s Washington Post, David Ignatius comes forward with new evidence suggesting that Susan Rice’s now notorious claims about the centrality of the video were pretty much verbatim from CIA talking points prepared that day for administration officials. Read More
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Romnesia spreads to Romney’s position on federal marriage amendment.
From the Second Presidential Debate.
Of course, there’s this favorite too.
From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s blog, video of a man who was an eyewitness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. After the jump … Read More
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From TPM Reader JM …
Your post on Benghazi was spot on correct. It was a well fused synthesis of the history and current reporting… well the timely leak to Ignatius. Beyond the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, it is a shame this happened during the general election and one in which the people looking to get in have a serious handicap on foreign policy this cycle. They went all-in on it and the media joined in because it was a story in which the administration, rightly, changed its tune as the days progressed.