public statements to remove public references to AQ-linked groups in Libya:
Looking ahead to 2016, Hillaryland needed to shore up the mythology that Clinton was a stellar secretary of state. Prepared talking points about the attack included mentions of al-Qaida and Ansar al-Sharia, a Libyan militant group, but the State Department got those references struck. Foggy Bottom's spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, a former Cheney aide, quashed a we-told-you-so paragraph written by the CIA that said the spy agency had "produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al-Qaida in Benghazi and eastern Libya," and had warned about five other attacks "against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British ambassador's convoy."
Nuland fretted about "my building leadership," and with backing from Ben Rhodes, a top White House aide, lobbied to remove those reminders from the talking points because they "could be abused by members" of Congress "to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either?"
Hicks said that Beth Jones, an under secretary of state, bristled when he asked ask her why Susan Rice had stressed the protest over an anti-Muslim video rather than a premeditated attack -- a Sunday show marathon that he said made his jaw drop. He believes he was demoted because he spoke up.
Read more here:
http://www.adn.com/2013/05/13/2901101/maureen-dowd-administration-failed.html#storylink=cpyNot a word about Hillary's own role in this debacle, and the context that Benghazi was the center of militant Jihadi groups moving men and arms from Libya to Syria to carry out Phase 2 (or is ot 3 or 4?) of Hillary and Petraeus' regional regime change operation.
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