No, they tell exactly the same story -- the same sloppy, confusing, bureaucratic mishmash of a story featuring a mud-wrestling match between the CIA and the State Department over who would be set up to be the fall guy for four dead Americans. Of course that wasn't the story Republicans were looking for.
But if that's the true story, isn't that the story news media were looking for? Apparently not, since it's not a very exciting story, especially during an election season that needed all the excitement it could get, no matter how artificial.
But if the White House
showed the 100 pages of emails to Congress last winter, why didn't that put the
Benghazi "scandal" to rest?
Well, you seem to be assuming that Congresspersons -- or most of their staff -- bothered to read the emails. A hundred pages is a lot, and that cuts into fundraising time. Some in Congress were just too busy even to attend the briefing on the emails.
One Email Asked: Why Are We Even Writing Talking
Points?
OK, I understand why
Republicans aren't interested in reading information that undermines their most
cherished fantasies, but what about Democrats, why didn't they play
whistleblower and tell the truth?
You're still assuming someone's going to attend a briefing or read a hundred pages of six-month-old emails. Failing to master the core evidence is a bi-partisan skill. Besides, how many Democrats do you think there are who want to be seen defending President Obama?
So that circumstance makes
it easy for some partisan staffer to say he's read the emails and then make up
the contents he wants reported?
Exactly, that's what someone did to ABC News -- and ABC, hungry for a scoop, ran the story with no confirmation of the accuracy of the handwritten notes from its only source, who was anonymous. They called it a "smoking gun."
Didn't ABC News report
that it had seen the original email?
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