Hayden Faults Administration, Not CIA, on Benghazi Talking Points

‘In other words, there were a range of views here, so be careful before you put all your eggs in the basket of, “It was a demonstration”‘

Hayden Faults Administration, Not CIA, on Benghazi Talking Points (National Review Online)

Former deputy CIA director Michael Morell told the House Intelligence Committee this week that despite reports from the chief of station in Libya that no protests occurred outside the American diplomatic facility in Benghazi prior to the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack on it, he edited the administration’s talking points to include references to such protests. His CIA analysts in Washington believed they had occurred, and the station chief, after all, was 500 miles away in Tripoli.

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