White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters today the Benghazi emails released yesterday by Judicial Watch were not about Benghazi.
The Examiner reported:
The White House, on the defensive for newly released emails showing senior officials attributing the Sept. 11 Benghazi attacks to an anti-Islam video, Wednesday said the documents in question were “not about Benghazi.”
“It was explicitly not about Benghazi,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. “It was about the overall situation in the region, the Muslim world, where you saw protests across embassy facilities across the region.”
Emails obtained by the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch showed that top White House officials were involved in framing the narrative that an anti-Islam video was the root cause of the attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Of course, this is not true.
The emails were marked Benghazi:
@PressSec says @rhodes44 email not released bc "explicitly not about Benghazi." It has section entitled "Benghazi" pic.twitter.com/SP3c5MynS6
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) April 30, 2014
Here’s the section from the email entitled “Benghazi.”
