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Originally Posted by djchameleon
With Bengazhi, I really don't see why that's such a big scandal when it's just a bunch of speculation at the moment of an ongoing instigation that has been going on for awhile now.
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Well a lot of actual facts are out there about what happened and how it was dealt with, and more keep emerging. These are not flattering facts.
Especially the part where it was already known that it was a terrorist attack and not a spontaneously violent demonstration about a movie, and Rice still went out and told everyone otherwise. Of course, she was only reading prepared talking points... but the thing is, ALL SORTS OF INFORMATION that actually identified the situation correctly were removed from the reports. And there was no mention of any spontaneous demonstration anywhere... At some point, someone willingly decided to use false information to give to the public when they knew the actual facts.
It may not seem controversial to people so jaded that they think this is just how things work now, but to me, it's more than a little annoying.