This one, by Benjamin Rhodes, a White House political operative, shows the administration’s priorities on the Friday before Susan Rice’s infamous tour of the Sunday talk shows. ... The overriding imperative was to deflect attention from the 'broader failure of policy' that led to the disaster.
"In an effort to spin the situation, [White House press secretary Jay] Carney claimed the talking points provided to Rice [in the above email] were about the numerous protests occurring in the Middle East and weren't specifically about Benghazi," reports the Washington Free Beacon.
Fox News' Bret Baier calls Carney's performance "surreal" in his description of the White House press conference to Gretchen Carlson in this Fox News video, which also contains clips of a back-and-forth between Carney and ABC reporter Jonathan Karl:
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