Former CIA Deputy Denies Politics in Benghazi
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A former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency said politics played no role in the flawed initial account of the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Rejecting Republican assertions that his agency participated in an Obama administration effort to mislead the public about the nature of the assault, Michael Morell said today that there were no ulterior motives in the drafting of “talking points” used to explain the incident.