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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 07:52 PM Nov 2012

McCain Backs Away From Benghazi Conspiracies

leaziz on Nov 20, 2012 at 5:49 pm

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today issued a statement essentially conceding that he was wrong in accusing the White House of changing U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points on Benghazi for political purposes.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers last week that the CIA’s assessment that al Qaeda was responsible for the Sept. 11 attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi was taken out of Rice’s talking points after an interagency review. McCain and his allies then claimed the White House took out the talking points because it supposedly undercut the Obama administration’s narrative that it had severely weakened al Qaeda.

But Intelligence officials told CNN yesterday that the intelligence community was responsible for the changes made to Rice’s talking points. The Director of National Intelligence spokesperson said that the White House did not make any “substantive changes.”

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/11/20/1225461/mccain-rice-benghazi-talking-points/

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McCain Backs Away From Benghazi Conspiracies (Original Post) MindMover Nov 2012 OP
Old man river needs to resign. sarcasmo Nov 2012 #1
We who live near "old man river" Bluzmann57 Nov 2012 #2
2016 is his next election challenge and I'M pretty sure that would make him 82 and even crazier. sarcasmo Nov 2012 #4
Polling Prolly Told Them Benghazi Is A Loser/nt DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2012 #3

Bluzmann57

(12,336 posts)
2. We who live near "old man river"
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 08:24 PM
Nov 2012

take that as an insult. Btw, when I say Old Man River, I mean the Mighty Mississippi, not some grouchy old man. Just something we call the river from time to time. Big Muddy, the Mighty Mississippi, Old Man River, simply "the river", and so on.
Having said all that, you're correct. It's time for the old man to step aside and let someone with a little sense take over. If the repukes have anyone with any sense that is.

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