The Topline: Repeated GOP attacks claiming the White House covered up the truth about the September attack in Benghazi, Libya, are nothing more than a politically motivated “side-show," President Obama said Monday.
“The whole issue of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a side-show,” Obama said during a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron. “The fact that this keeps getting churned out, frankly, has a lot to do with political motivations.”
His comments come just a few days after it was revealed that State Department officials removed references to al Qaeda and CIA warnings about security threats to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in talking points shared with the public.
Republican lawmakers have charged that the administration sought to downplay the terrorist attack in the weeks before last November’s presidential election.
Obama sought to paint accusations as a partisan fight during Monday's press conference.
“We don't have time to be playing these kinds of political games here in Washington. We should be focused on what are we doing to protect them,” Obama said. “We dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus.”
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