Joe Biden

When it dumped 100 emails related to the Benghazi talking points Wednesday night, the Obama White House showed it hasn't been telling the truth.  These talking points were not the sole product of the intelligence community, but were in fact edited by State Department officials and White House officials and then decided upon at a White House meeting.  After reading these emails, it's clear the administration's principal concern behind the edits was to protect itself from public and Congressional criticism, not to get out the facts of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in which four Americans died.But the emails also leave unanswered important questions, while offering tantalizing clues and suggestions.  First, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was pushing to water down the CIA-drafted talking points. But she's not the person in charge at State.  At 9:24 PM Friday, September 14, she complained that the edits made so far "don't resolve all my issues or those of my bui...

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