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Permanent Spin

For nine days, the Obama administration made a case that virtually everyone understood was untrue: that the killing of our ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, was a random, spontaneous act of individuals upset about an online video—an unpredictable attack on a well-protected compound that had nothing do to with the eleventh anniversary of 9/11.

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice

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These claims were wrong. Every one of them. But the White House pushed them hard.http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/permanent-spin_652887.html

 

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