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Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) tore into Fox News Chris Wallace and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) for obsessing over the talking points U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used when talking to the media in the days following the attack in Benghazi, Libya rather than focusing on identifying the perpetrators of the killings. I think the desire of the Republicans to create a scandal here has really undermined any ability to have a credible look at what actually happened, Smith said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday alongside Rogers.
While acknowledging that the administrations initial assessment of Bengazi did not reflect what officials later learned about the incident, Smith criticized Fox for suggesting that that Rices remarks on five Sunday news shows presented a definitive picture of the events of Sep. 11, 2012.
[The administration] didnt reach conclusions the way you just presented that was that by the Sunday afterwards that the administration said here is what happened, here is our conclusion, Smith explained. But the president never said, no terrorism, no Al Qaeda. There was a dispute about how soon to lead to specific conclusions that now is being made into Watergate and Iran-Contra.
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)an a** licking me, me, me operative for the republican party.
I mean, that's why he 'works' at fox, if you can call what he does work.
The video of the Big Dog's ripping him a new one is around here recently..
Republicans do not understand the word "nuance." EVEN IF THEY WERE BEING HONEST about things, they STILL don't understand what that word means.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)Hard to figure out exactly what the administration did that was so evil. What were they trying to cover up and why ?