On Tuesday, CBS sources revealed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was seemingly responsible for editing the CIA talking points
relating to the Benghazi terrorist attack. References to “al Qaeda” and
“terrorism” were removed from the unclassified talking points given to
UN Ambassador Susan Rice.
However, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer and Fox News host
Bill O’Reilly are not “buying it.” Appearing on O’Reilly’s show on
Tuesday night, Krauthammer said James Clapper, the head of DNI,
apparently had a sudden case of “amnesia” after initially claiming he
didn’t know who edited the talking points. Those talking points, which
were clearly full of misleading and false information, would shape the
Obama administration’s narrative about the Benghazi attack that left
four Americans dead on Sept. 11.
“I’m not buying it,” Krauthammer began, “because the chairman of the
House Intelligence Committee says that a week ago in classified
testimony that same Clapper said that he had no idea who changed the
talking points. And now a week later, he seems to discover he did?
That’s kind of strange. I’ve seen amnesia in my day, in my clinical
days, and that one is pretty quick — one week.”
He continued: “All I know is, that in the end the narrative spun by
Susan Rice and continued by the president afterwards for days and days
afterwards, on Letterman and elsewhere, was that it was a riot
out-of-control because they didn’t want the country to know that Obama’s
boast that al-Qaeda was on its heels, which is simply not true.”
“So it was all about the campaign?” O’Reilly asked.
“That’s one reason, there might more a lot more nefarious ones but I’ll stop with that one,” Krauthammer replied.
“But they didn’t have to worry about Mitt Romney even bringing it up.
So why not just tell the people they got attacked by al-Qaeda?”
O’Reilly joked.
Watch the clip via Fox News below:
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