Pfeiffer: “Irrelevant” Who Edited Benghazi Talking Points

Obama Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer Called Questions Over Who Edited The Benghazi Talking Points, “Largely Irrelevant.” CBS’s BOB SCHIEFFER: “What I’m saying to you, is that was just PR, that was just a PR plan to send out somebody who didn’t know anything about what happened. Why did you do that? Why didn’t the Secretary of State come and tell us what they knew and if you knew nothing, say we don’t know yet? Why didn’t the White House Chief of Staff come out, and I mean this as no disrespect to you, why are you here today? Why isn’t the White House Chief of Staff here to tell us what happened?” OBAMA SENIOR ADVISER DAN PFEIFFER: “Well, let’s start with Susan Rice. Ambassador Rice went out that day, and represented the administration, and spoke to what happened with the best information we had, that everyone in the administration had, is what she looked at. And that was the consensus of the intelligence community. What we do, is we want to go out and speak to the problems as they happened. What’s important here is when problems happen, is that the president takes responsibility for them and tries to fix them. That’s what we’re talking about in Benghazi. You’re right, that is an absolute tragedy, what happened. The question isn’t who edited what talking points. That’s largely irrelevant. What is relevant is, what are going to do to make sure that never happens again which is why the president called on Congress to pass legislation to beef up embassy security around the world and protect our diplomats.” (CBS’s “Face The Nation,” 5/19/13)

Dan Pfeiffer: “Irrelevant Fact” Where Obama Was During Benghazi Attacks

Obama Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer Refused To Say Where Obama Was Throughout The Night Of The Benghazi Attacks, Calling It “A Largely Irrelevant Fact.” FOX NEWS’ CHRIS WALLACE: “Let’s turn to Benghazi. I want to ask you about one lingering question, which is the president’s actions on 9/11, the night of the attack, because we don’t very much about that. We do know that in the afternoon he had an already scheduled meeting with Defense Secretary Panetta as well as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Martin Dempsey when he heard about this while they were in the meeting about an unrelated subject, he said that he wanted them to deploy forces as soon as possible. The next time he shows up is when Hillary Clinton says she spoke to him at around 10:00 that night after the attack at the consulate, not as it turns out at the annex, but the attack at the consulate had ended. Question, what did the president do the rest of that night to pursue Benghazi?” OBAMA SENIOR ADVISER DAN PFEIFFER: “Look, the president was kept up to date on this as it was happening, throughout the entire night, from the moment it started until the very end. This is a horrible tragedy; these are people that he sent abroad whose lives are in risk, people who work for him. I recognize that there’s a series of conspiracy theories the Republicans have been spinning about this since the night it happened, but there’s been an independent review of this, Congress has held hearings, we provided 250,000 pages of — 250,000 pages of documents up there. There’ve been 11 hearings, 20 staff briefings, and everyone has found the same thing. This is a tragedy. So the question here is not what happened that night. The question is what are we going to do to move forward and ensure it doesn’t happen again? That’s why Congress should act on what the president called for earlier this week, to pass legislation to allow us to actually implement the recommendations of the accountability review board so we can protect our diplomats around the world, because when we send our diplomats off into far-flung places, theirs is an inherent level of risk. We should do what we can to mitigate that risk.”  WALLACE: “With due respect, you didn’t answer my question. What did the president do that night?” PFEIFFER: “He was kept, he was in constant touch that night with his national security team, and kept up to date with the events as they were happening.” WALLACE: “When you say his national security team, he didn’t talk to the Secretary of State except for the one time when the first attack was over. He didn’t talk to the Secretary of Defense, he didn’t talk to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Who was he talking to?” PFEIFFER: “He was talking to his national security staff, his national security council, are the people who keep him up to date about these things as they happen.” WALLACE: “Was he in the Situation Room?” PFEIFFER: “He was kept up to date throughout the day.” WALLACE: “Do you not know whether he was in the Situation Room?” PFEIFFER: “I don’t know what room the president was in that night. That’s a largely irrelevant fact.” (FOX NEWS “Fox News Sunday,” 5/19/13)

Bob Woodward: Obama Administration Didn’t Tell Truth on Benghazi

Bob Woodward Said That The Talking Points Emails Revealed That The Obama Administration Did Not Tell The Truth About The Benghazi Attack. BOB WOODWARD: “Well, I think on the whole Benghazi thing. You look at those talking points and, I mean, the initial draft by the CIA very explicitly said, we know that activists who have ties to al Qaeda were involved in the attack. And then you see what comes out a couple of days later and there is no reference to this. This is a business where you have to tell the truth and that did not happen here.” (NBC’s “Meet The Press,” 5/19/13)

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