Obama Administration Defends Changing Benghazi Account
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Obama administration officials insisted that the White House and State Department had a minor role in altering an erroneous account of a deadly attack on a U.S. compound in Libya last year, after internal e-mails surfaced indicating it was shaped by political concerns.
“The White House involvement was very limited and non-substantive,” Jay Carney, President Barack Obama’s spokesman, told reporters yesterday. “The talking points reflect the intelligence community assessment of what happened.”