White House Caught Urging Rice To Blame Benghazi On Video

by JASmius

"Urging"?  Ordering is more like it:

An email obtained by the government watchdog Judicial Watch shows that a senior White House official advised then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice to blame a spontaneous protest from a YouTube video for the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Fox News reported.

Fox's chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reported that the September 14, 2012, email shows that White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes advised Rice to focus on a YouTube video as the cause of a spontaneous protest, though transcripts have since been revealed to show that senior defense officials had informed the administration on the night of the event that the assault was a terrorist attack.

Rhodes outlined a number of talking points for Rice, with the advice "to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy."

"Now we know the Obama White House's chief concern about the Benghazi attack was making sure that President Obama looked good," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton  said in a statement.

Not exactly a news flash, is it?  Of course, these animals are like that 24/7/365, but under two months from O's (first) re-election showdown?  There was never a chance that the Regime wasn't going to look at Benghazi politically.  And we all know why: Red Barry had the CIA running guns to al Qaeda in Syria through the Benghazi arms warehouse consulate; letting it get out that the dictator was arming an archenemy of America for any reason, much less that that led to the Benghazi disaster, still less that the White House covered it up by coldly standing back and letting its Ambassador to Libya and three Navy SEALS be tortured and slaughtered, wouldn't have played well in swing states.  So a "progressive" alibi had to be fabricated, and the "Islamophobic" YouTube video was what they came up with.  Would it hold up under any level of scrutiny?  Not a chance; but it only had to for a couple of months, after which it wouldn't matter because, even if Republicans retained control of the House, their futile inquiries and subpoenas could easily be permanently stonewalled.

Hence....:

The Rhodes communications strategy email also instructs recipients to portray Obama as "steady and statesmanlike" throughout the crisis. Rhodes also says in the message that one of the goals is to "reinforce the president and administration's strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges."

.....for two additional months.  Another mission, accomplished.

I wonder if the Oval Office is running out of those banners.