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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1138384" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=1]What About&nbsp; the Video?[/h]So, what about the video? The White House last week released nearly 100&nbsp; pages of emails detailing some of the discussions within the Obama&nbsp; administration that resulted in major revisions to talking points about&nbsp; the Benghazi attacks drafted by the Central Intelligence Agency.The emails fill in at least some of the details about the talking&nbsp; points. They also leave in ruins administration claims that White House&nbsp; and State Department officials were mere bystanders in the process. But&nbsp; how, exactly, the video became so prominent in the administration’s&nbsp; public rhetoric remains something of a mystery.Hillary Clinton mentioned it in her remarks at the ceremony to receive&nbsp; the caskets of the four dead Americans on September 14, regretting the&nbsp; violence “over an awful Internet video we had nothing to do with.”&nbsp; According to Charles Woods, the father of one of the officials killed in&nbsp; the attack, former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, Clinton told him at the same&nbsp; ceremony that the U.S. government would make sure the filmmaker was&nbsp; “arrested and prosecuted.” Pat Smith, the mother of communications&nbsp; specialist Sean Smith, reported that Clinton told her the same thing,&nbsp; “nose to nose.”Asked about Benghazi on September 20, President Obama referred to&nbsp; “natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video [and]&nbsp; were used as an excuse by extremists to see if they can also directly&nbsp; harm U.S. interests.” It was one of several times he would cite the&nbsp; video.<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-about-video_724696.html" target="_blank">What About the Video? | The Weekly Standard</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1138384, member: 12952"] [h=1]What About the Video?[/h]So, what about the video? The White House last week released nearly 100 pages of emails detailing some of the discussions within the Obama administration that resulted in major revisions to talking points about the Benghazi attacks drafted by the Central Intelligence Agency. The emails fill in at least some of the details about the talking points. They also leave in ruins administration claims that White House and State Department officials were mere bystanders in the process. But how, exactly, the video became so prominent in the administration’s public rhetoric remains something of a mystery. Hillary Clinton mentioned it in her remarks at the ceremony to receive the caskets of the four dead Americans on September 14, regretting the violence “over an awful Internet video we had nothing to do with.” According to Charles Woods, the father of one of the officials killed in the attack, former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, Clinton told him at the same ceremony that the U.S. government would make sure the filmmaker was “arrested and prosecuted.” Pat Smith, the mother of communications specialist Sean Smith, reported that Clinton told her the same thing, “nose to nose.” Asked about Benghazi on September 20, President Obama referred to “natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video [and] were used as an excuse by extremists to see if they can also directly harm U.S. interests.” It was one of several times he would cite the video. [url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-about-video_724696.html]What About the Video? | The Weekly Standard[/url] [/QUOTE]

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