When pressed by the @HouseBenghazi committee on why his overhaul of the talking points did not include the fact that there was NO 9/11/12 protest at the #Benghazi compound, backed by numerous documented witness accounts, @MichaelJMorell used an "It's not my job" excuse. (1/6)
Morell's argument was that he would have overstepped his bounds as a CIA manager to change the assessment of analysts in the talking points: "Look, managers at CIA don’t do analysis. When they are perceived to be doing the analysis, the analysts go nuts, right?" (2/6)
Morell's argument was intentionally misleading and false. He was NOT creating an analytic assessment. He was editing talking points that would be used for public consumption. The CIA analysts were not involved in the talking points process; only managers (i.e. Morell) were. (3/6)
The CIA analysts did not have the same emails @MichaelJMorell did from the Chief of Station which confirmed there was no spontaneous protest before the attacks—only Morell had those. (4/6)
Morell, the only person with this info at his disposal, could have edited the talking points to reflect the most up-to-date info, or at the very least to caveat the talking points with a reflection that different views existed. He did neither of these things. (5/6)
Morell, like Hillary and Obama, KNEW the truth. But he chose to throw his CIA colleague under the bus in order to further suppress the facts and keep @BarackObama's #Benghazi YouTube video lie and re-election hopes alive. (6/6)
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