SCRUBBED, ABSOLUTELY FALSE
NO EXCUSE FOR IT
Democratic congressman Stephen Lynch admits that Susan Rice used "scrubbed talking points" on Benghazi to deliver "false information" to the American people.
"Well it was scrubbed. It was totally inaccurate. There was no excuse for that. It was false information. And what they tried to do was harmonize that happened in Benghazi with what happened everywhere else across the Middle East, which was totally wrong."
Mike Wallace: How do you explain the fact that that Sunday, UN Ambassador Rice came on this show and 4 other Sunday shows- never mentioned Al Qaeda extremists which had been scrubbed from the talking points- but did mention a reaction to the anti-Islam video which had never been in any of the talking points?
Congressman Lynch: “They certainly weren’t accurate. I don’t know what the process was there. But, absolutely, they were false. They were wrong. There were no protests outside of the Benghazi compound there. This was a deliberate and strategic attack on the consulate there. So any statements that this was sort of like the other protests that we saw in Cairo and other embassies- this was not that type of case. This was a concerted effort. ”
Wallace: “And do you think part of that was- do you think it was scrubbed because of the fact that didn’t fit into President’s narrative that Al Qaeda was on the run?”
Lynch: “Well I, yeah, I think it was a victory of ‘hope over reality’ to be honest with you. They were hoping this wasn’t the case.”
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