White House E-Mails Show Tension on Benghazi Talking Points

White House E-Mails Show Tension on Benghazi Talking Points More than 100 pages of e-mails released Wednesday reveal intensive jostling between the C.I.A. and the State Department about the government’s official “talking points” in the aftermath of last September’s attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. The White House released the e-mails to reporters after Republicans seized on snippets of the correspondence last Friday to suggest that President Obama’s staff had been complicit in trying to alter the talking points used by Susan Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, in the days after the attack. White House aides have said the excerpts used by Republicans — and heavily reported by the press — were an inaccurate representation of their involvement. On Tuesday, CNN obtained one of the emails in question that appeared to minimize the White House involvement.