{"id":18863,"date":"2013-05-20T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18863"},"modified":"2013-05-20T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:26:48","slug":"i-wondered-about-this-when-i-first-heard-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18863","title":{"rendered":"I Wondered About This When I First Heard It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Hot Air<\/a> posted a story about the Democrat<\/a>‘s claim that the e-mails regarding Benghazi<\/a> had been doctored by the Republicans. That claim was made by Dan Pfeiffer<\/a> on his Sunday round of talk show appearances. So what is the story behind the claim?<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Nothing was \u201cdoctored.\u201d Following the House report, Steve Hayes<\/a> of The Weekly Standard<\/a> revealed a significant amount of new detail, followed by Jon Karl at ABC<\/a> News. Both Hayes and Karl refer to summaries of the emails, meaning they presumably relied a great deal on the notes of those at the March 19 White House<\/a> briefing. Karl inaccurately quotes from one email, which may have been based on faulty note-taking<\/a> or some other error. While this is significant, the email in question exists and has the same core content as the email quoted by Karl \u2014 there was no wholesale fabrication.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains why some of the initial reports were not totally accurate:<\/p>\n

The incorrect versions \u2013 and they were<\/i> inaccurate quotes \u2013 were not generated by GOP operatives. They were extracted by ABC\u2019s Jon Karl from notes taken by attendees at the original meeting when the White House refused to initially allow anyone to have copies which could have been used for full referencing. ABC went with the notes, being the closest thing anyone had to an official record, and the GOP worked off those notes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the scandal continues, pay attention to who says what and question everything you read or hear. That is the only way we will ever get to the truth.<\/p>\n

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