Ex-CIA official says GOP politicized Benghazi, distorted agency's analysis of events
Published May 04, 2015Associated Press
WASHINGTON ? A former CIA
deputy director writes in a new book that Republicans have repeatedly distorted the agency's analysis of the Benghazi attack in 2012. Michael Morell says the events were
distorted about the attack that killed the American ambassador to Libya.
That's according to The New York Times. Morell
dismissed the notion that CIA officers and the military
"were ordered to stand down" and not come to the aid of their comrades in Benghazi, Libya. And he says in the book there's
no evidence the Central Intelligence Agency conspired with the White House to spin the Benghazi story to protect then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
But he also wrote that
the White House embellished some of the talking points provided by the CIA about the Benghazi attack.
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