If this week made anything clear about Benghazi, it's that the issue isn't going away anytime soon. The latest development is that ABC News got its hands on 12 different versions of talking points and emails that show how the CIA's initial draft on what happened got edited before being made public by ambassador Susan Rice. One bit getting heavy attention is that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland successfully argued to have the draft scrubbed of a reference to "extremists" linked to al-Qaeda because it “could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either?" The White House insists that none of the changes were made for political reasons, with only national security staffers involved, and that such revisions are standard practice before any talking points go public.
A sample of how the development is getting played: