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About the way this thing developed yesterday with the unloading last night of all those e-mails? >> e-mails came in the very beginning of the packet. it was an e-mail from the general counsel of the cia who points out to everybody, this is when the consideration and the editing process is still going on inside the cia, that there's a standing order from the national security council, from the justice department, from the fbi, that no one in any assessment should attribute blame to this thing because it could jeopardize the investigation, even internally within the government. so it doesn't mat...

What do you think, jonathan, about the way this thing developed yesterday with the unloading last night of all those e-mails? >> e-mails came in the very beginning of the packet. it was an e-mail from the general counsel of the cia who points out to everybody, this is when the consideration and the editing process is still going on inside the cia, that there's a stand l order from the national security council, from the justice department, from the fbi, that no one in any assessment should attribute blame to this thing because it could jeopardize the investigation, even internally within the g...

I see cia and state pointing the finger at each other for who dropped the ball on the security in that compound. i don't see a white house cover-up. by the way, to the point former vice president cheney made, you know, if they were trying to tell a lie about the video and demonstrations, it lasted three days. voters went to the polls knowing there had been an al qaeda affiliated attack there. what was covered up? a cover-up that lasted 72 hours. a pretty inept one. i don't see scandal there. >> the harm done was to romney by a tenth of a point. >> romney had an issue to hit obama with because ...

Check their histories because, you know, what we have here with one issue in benghazi is so clearly as we learn more and more a deliberate effort to politicize a tragedy. >> political sideshow? or obama administration cover-up? >> adam schiff, thank you very much, congressman, always great to talk to you. the talking points did include in the early stage when the cia handed them for edits, a fairly detailed description with the mention of involvement of al qaeda and warnings of a possible terror attack in benghazi. all of these were taken out. it is still unclear at this point by whom, whether...

Tamp this down to help obama win the election. >> you think this is smart. >> no question they took out in the editing process, obviously no question. nobody disgraes that they took out references to al qaeda, et cetera. the question is why did they do it? the thing that i just read from the general counsel was, that's because the d.o.j., the department of justice, the fbi who will handle the investigation don't want us saying anything publicly or even internally. >> let's take this, they didn't want to mention al qaeda or the previous attacks. why did they continue to say through the mouth of...