'Maybe the president's right. We should be looking at him,' Rep. Peter King tells Fox News regarding #Libya controversyhttp://fxn.ws/UM1t7c
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2:04 PM - 17 Nov 12 · Details
The White House pushed back Saturday on suggestions that it scrubbed terrorist involvement from original CIA talking points on the fatal Libya attacks.
The remark by White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes followed former CIA Director David Petraeus telling House and Senate intelligence committees Friday that the agency’s original talking points suggested the Sept. 11 attack involved Al Qaeda affiliates and sympathizers -- including Al Qaeda’s North Africa affiliate and a Libyan group Ansar al-Shariah.
"The only edit that was made by the White House and also by the State Department was to change the word 'consulate' to the word 'diplomatic facility,' since the facility in Benghazi was not formally a consulate," Rhodes told reporters Saturday aboard Air Force One.
"We were provided with points by the intelligence community that represented their assessment. The only edit made by the White House was the factual edit about how to refer to the facility," Rhodes also said.
However, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice made no mention of terrorists when appearing Sept. 16 on several TV shows to say the attacks in Benghazi, Libya were “spontaneous” and appeared to be sparked by angry protests over an anti-Islamic film.
'The only edit that was made by the White House and also by the State Department was to change the word 'consulate' to the word 'diplomatic facility,' since the facility in Benghazi was not for mally a consulate.'
- Ben Rhodes, White House deputy national security adviser Rice purportedly was working off non-classified CIA talking points that had first been reviews by the White House and other agencies include the Defense and State departments.
The attacks killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Steven and three other Americans.
Earlier on Saturday, Republican Rep. Pete King so the next step is learn who changed the talking points and why.
He also suggested the House Intelligence Committee could call Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to testify.
The New York congressman told Fox News the CIA intelligence reports made several stops – including the White House and the Defense and State departments. So finding out who removed the information that connected the attacks with terror groups will be difficult.
"The CIA had it right, and those talking points were changed," King said. "It's not going to be easy."
King, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the other Capitol Hill committees could call Rice to testify but others on Capitol Hill also must take up the effort.
"It's up to the other committees," he said. "We have to find out … . Clearly, the intelligence committee had it right. Somewhere along the line the policy makers changed it."
He said the key questions for Rice should be: Who did she spoke with in the intelligence committee before making her comments and who brief her?
King suggested he‘d be surprised if Rice went on national TV with just a few talking points.
"Maybe the president's right," he said. "We should be looking at him."
King stuck to his argument that the Obama administration believed the war against Al Qaeda was over "and this is what they wanted to present."
The attack occurred roughly seven weeks before Election Day.
King told Fox on Friday that intelligence officials who testified in a closed-door hearing a day earlier, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and acting CIA Director Mike Morell, said they did not know who changed the talking points.
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