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U.S. National Intelligence Office sued for Benghazi documents
2013-02-26
The Obama White House has decided to turnover documents related to the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, according to news reports on Friday evening. But a non-government organization is continuing its lawsuit against Obama's Office of National Intelligence to access the documents for itself.

Despite continuous cover-up allegations, misstatements, verbal gymnastics and other evasions, a top public-interest, watchdog group on Thursday announced that its officials had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against President Barack Obama's Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The FOIA lawsuit seeks access to records regarding the Sept. 11, 2012, attack by Islamists on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

During the violent terrorist attack, Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were brutalized and murdered by radical Muslims associated with al-Qaeda. The documents requested from the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper include emails between top national security officials showing the debate within the administration over how to describe the attack and as well as other documents.

The non-profit, non-partisan Judicial Watch is seeking a questionable “talking points” memo indicating that intelligence officials believed from the outset that Islamic terrorists perpetrated the vicious attack despite public statements issued by Obama administration officials, including UN Ambassador Susan Rice and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that attributed the attack to a response to a YouTube anti-Mohammad video.

Judicial Watch seeks the following records in its FOIA request:

Any and all memoranda, assessments, analyses, and/or talking points regarding the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya and/or the killing of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence between Sept. 11, 2012 and Sept. 20, 2012. This request includes, but is not limited to, the “speaking points” memorandum referred to by Senator Dianne Feinstein during a televised interview on Oct. 17, 2012.

According to Judicial Watch, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged receiving the group's FOIA request on Oct. 19, 2012, and was required by law to respond by Nov. 26, 2012. But the DNI so far has neglected its duty to produce any records responsive to the request.

Regarding the “speaking points” memorandum requested by Judicial Watch, according to the CBS Affiliate in San Francisco: “When asked by CBS 5 if there was an intelligence flaw, the senior California senator [Feinstein] who hails from San Francisco replied: ‘I think what happened was the director of intelligence…put out some speaking points on the initial intelligence assessment. I think that was possibly a mistake.’”
Posted by:tipper

#3  Shouldn't that be the US "Global Intelligence Office/Agency"???

IIRC DOONESBURY = D *** NG IT - "COMTEMPORIZE, MAN, CONTEMPORIZE"!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-02-26 21:55  

#2  "Today the White House sought an increase in budget for 'Redacting Sharpies™'"
Posted by: Frank G   2013-02-26 10:25  

#1  Best of luck with that.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-02-26 05:48  

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