The fact there was a process in deciding the information release is not important to them. It is gossip. All the right wing wants is their 'individualized' attacks that satisfies their customers.
They are still STUCK on the talking points. Maybe because O'Reilly has that as an opening segment to his show. Who knows?
The former Secretary may move some opinion, but, this mess on FOX is beyond help. She just needs to get on with her campaign. She has a real challenger in Donald Trump. He has the numbers. I still state that.
By the way, FOX is not kind to Donald Trump. They continue to attempt to diminish his importance.
May 20, 2013
...7:39 p.m. email: State Department (click here) spokeswoman Victoria Nuland expressed the most sweeping concerns. "I have serious concerns about all parts highlighted below in arming members of Congress with information to start making assertions to the media that we ourselves are not making because we don't want to prejudice the investigation... Why do we want the Hill to be fingering [al-Qaeda linked] Ansar al-Sharia when we aren't doing that ourselves until we have investigation results? And the penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency [CIA] about al-Qaeda's presence and activities of al-Qaeda...[which] could be abused by members of Congress to fault the State Department for not paying attention... so why would we want to cede that, either?"
8:59 p.m. email: A facilitator of the email threads answers Nuland's concerns about "prejudicing the investigation" by stating "The FBI did not have major concerns with the points and offered only a couple of minor suggestions." Nonetheless, they remove a paragraph referring to Ansar al-Sharia from the next version.
8:59 p.m. talking points: Changed "we do know" to "there are indications that" Islamic extremists participated in the violent demonstrations."...
They are still STUCK on the talking points. Maybe because O'Reilly has that as an opening segment to his show. Who knows?
The former Secretary may move some opinion, but, this mess on FOX is beyond help. She just needs to get on with her campaign. She has a real challenger in Donald Trump. He has the numbers. I still state that.
By the way, FOX is not kind to Donald Trump. They continue to attempt to diminish his importance.
May 20, 2013
...7:39 p.m. email: State Department (click here) spokeswoman Victoria Nuland expressed the most sweeping concerns. "I have serious concerns about all parts highlighted below in arming members of Congress with information to start making assertions to the media that we ourselves are not making because we don't want to prejudice the investigation... Why do we want the Hill to be fingering [al-Qaeda linked] Ansar al-Sharia when we aren't doing that ourselves until we have investigation results? And the penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency [CIA] about al-Qaeda's presence and activities of al-Qaeda...[which] could be abused by members of Congress to fault the State Department for not paying attention... so why would we want to cede that, either?"
8:59 p.m. email: A facilitator of the email threads answers Nuland's concerns about "prejudicing the investigation" by stating "The FBI did not have major concerns with the points and offered only a couple of minor suggestions." Nonetheless, they remove a paragraph referring to Ansar al-Sharia from the next version.
8:59 p.m. talking points: Changed "we do know" to "there are indications that" Islamic extremists participated in the violent demonstrations."...
