Newly released emails blow big holes in Obama White House’s Benghazi defense

By: American Decency Staff

Slowly but surely the facts are emerging on what happened at the highest levels of the U.S. government during and in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Jay Carney, President Obama's chief spokesman, maintained the administration's wall of resistance to all criticism of the government's response despite release of a set of devastating emails Tuesday.

Judicial Watch, the nonprofit government watchdog, pointed in particular to an email circulated on Sept. 14, 2012, by then-White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Benjamin J. Rhodes.

Its purpose was preparation of then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice for her appearances on the Sunday news talk-show circuit to discuss the Benghazi attack.

Rice was the first senior Obama appointee to comment officially on the attack, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

The infamous video

The email's purpose was this: "Goal: To underscore that these protests are rooted in and (sic) Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy."

The "Internet video" was an amateurish mockumentary on Islam produced by an independent filmmaker and released a few days before the attack.

As Judicial Watch pointed out Tuesday, Rhodes' email went to key White House and State Department officials, including Carney, then-White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, then-White House Deputy Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, then-National Security Council Director of Communications Erin Pelton, and then-White House Senior Advisor and political strategist Davie Plouffe.

These individuals were the core of the Obama administration's Benghazi crisis communications management team.

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