White House 'Off the Record' Benghazi Briefing

This is not a good idea.

Off the record?

From Politico:

The White House held an off-the-record briefing with reporters on Friday afternoon to discuss recent revelations about the Benghazi investigation, sources familiar with the meeting tell POLITICO.

The meeting began around 12:45 p.m. and postponed the daily, on-the-record White House press briefing to 1:45 p.m. White House press secretary Jay Carney did not respond to a request for confirmation of the meeting.

The off-the-record session was announced to reporters in the wake of an ABC News report showing that White House and State Dept. officials were involved in revising the now-discredited CIA talking points about the attack on Benghazi.

Emails obtained by ABC News show that State Dept. spokesperson Victoria Nuland requested that the CIA scrub references to an Al Qaeda-linked group, which, Nuland told White House officials, “could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings."

Mark Levin tweets, "White House no doubt trying to plant stories with off the record Benghazi briefing..."

Exactly.

This is embarrassing.

Obama's transparent administration held an off the record Benghazi briefing ahead of Jay Carney's regular WH press briefing?

Was Kool-Aid served at the briefing?

This is pathetic.

The White House seems to be in full panic mode.

If any reporters who attended the WH off-the-record #Benghazi briefing want to share their notes, I'd be eager to see them.

— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) May 10, 2013

Trouble at the White House...

I picture Jay Carney breathing into a paper bag right now.

WH press briefing scheduled for 12:30, then 1:45, now 3:15

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 10, 2013

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It's funny to watch Leftist news outlets now scrambling to show that they were, in fact, covering Benghazi from the beginning.

That's a tough sell.

Fascinating to witness attempts to reconstruct reality.

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Just Released - Video of White House inviting reporters to off the record #Benghazi briefing bit.ly/ZNQ2iZ #tcot

— RightWisconsin (@RightWisconsin) May 10, 2013