TANGLED

Our government has been caught in lie after lie.

We do NOT get to keep our docs or our insurance plans or save $2,500.  It was NOT a rogue IRS agent in Cincinnati.  We do NOT have the most transparent administration ever. They will NOT "get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi and bring the perpetrator to justice".

In fact, the only thing said that this administration told us we COULD believe...was that our nation would be changed.

An email was released this week.

It's the one the White House must have missed when they stonewalled for 20 months, then declared they had given us all they had, then finally released a redacted (beyond legibility) copy, and then finally, after Judicial Watch sued, VOILA!  An email has surfaced to begin to show the truth.

There are more emails to come, but here's what this email tells us:

#1.  THE TALKING POINTS WERE REDONE, TOSSING THE CONSENSUS OF INTELLIGENCE OPINION (from military both on the ground and watching a live feed in Germany, the CIA, and the Sec'y of State's bureau chief in Benghazi) TO WASHINGTON'S DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENTS.  

Now the word "attack" was changed to "demonstration"...caused by a spontaneous video.  In fact, at 10:07 that night, Sec'y Clinton sent out a public statement saying the problem was "inflammatory material posted on the internet".  The battle would continue for over an hour after her statement.

The author of the new email was Ben Rhodes, the White House Deputy National Security Adviser.  He wrote to prep Susan Rice (and others) and to frame the issue "so it wouldn't be viewed as a broader failure of their policies...to reinforce the President and Administration's STRENGTH and STEADINESS in dealing with difficult challenges".

A week before, the President stood before the Democratic convention and said AlQaeda was on the run.  He was weeks away from his reelection.  Is that why they changed the intelligence and blamed a video?  So he could appear steady and strong?

Enter a man named Tommy Vietor.  This 32-year-old began his work for then Senator Obama as his VAN DRIVER, working his way up to be the National Security Council spokesman in the White House.

VIETOR (in an interview with Brett Baier on whether he had changed the word "attack" to "demonstration"):  "Maybe.  I don't really remember."

BAIER:  "You don't remember?"

VIETOR:  "Dude, this was like two years ago.  We're still talking about the most mundane process."

This LINK to the Tommy Vietor interview reveals a snarky and immature man working at the highest level in national security.  However, he did tell us the second thing about Benghazi:

#2.  PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS NOT IN THE SITUATION ROOM.    No one has ever seemed to know anything about where the President was.  They are quick to say that he can be in touch wherever he is...but if my country is under attack, I would love to think someone besides Tommy Vietor was in the Situation Room.

I would also love to think the off-grid President had touched base with the Defense Sec'y...but Panetta testified he didn't talk again with the President after their 5:00 meeting when the President was told of the attack.  Panetta also testified he never talked again to Sec'y Clinton, yet the whereabouts of her Ambassador was unknown for much of that time.

How could the country be under attack and no one was minding the store?  We know the military must have been chomping at the bit.  The head of the Afri-Com theatre, General Carter Ham, "retired" after the attack.  This week a retired Air Force Brig. General Lovell, Deputy Intelligence Director for Afri-Com (who was watching a live feed in Germany), tersely testified "We knew quite early on that this was no demonstration gone terribly awry".  Gen. Lovell was also asked if they told him to go save the people in Benghazi.  "Not to my knowledge, sir."  The night of Gen. Lovell's testimony, NBC/CBS did not report on it; ABC gave it 45 seconds.

Here is what JAY CARNEY, White House spokesperson, had to say today when asked about the email:  "The email is not about Benghazi."

I've heard of nerves like a burglar in daylight.  You take the cake, Jay.

This from GEORGE WILL:  "The most riveting thing I've seen is in Catherine Herridge's report saying that even before the attack was over Mrs. Clinton has sent out that press release about the video.  That could have been considered reasonable (given there was a battle, then a pause, then more battle).  But then three days later when the bodies came home, why did Mrs. Clinto speak to the families and double down on the video, saying 'We will arrest and prosecute the perpetrator of the video"?

In the first three days, all knew the terrorist attack had nothing to do with a video.  And the President STILL went on Letterman and The View and even went to the United Nations...WEEKS later blaming the video.  Why?

Those are legitimate questions.  They are not extremist, right-wing questions that "only Fox" asks...but things that Americans have a right to know.

Our ambassador died a torturous death in those hours he was missing.  The special forces soldiers fought long and hard with no backup.  You tell me...what Commander-in-Chief does not talk to the military during an attack?  Who does not authorize a rescue?  Who prioritizes a cheesy Vegas fund-raiser the morning after the country has just been attacked?  Who says they will "get to the bottom of it" and then doesn't?

Here's what we know for a FACT.  The world saw that it is possible to poke America in the eye and get away with it.  And the men who serve in our military saw their own get left behind.  What does that do for morale?

Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson, you were right.  Catherine Herridge and James Rosen and Brett Baier, you were right.  Thank you for pursuing the TRUTH about the change we got in 2008.