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Input: A Republican lawmaker is renewing his push for a select committee to investigate the Benghazi terror attack following the release of emails tying a White House aide to former U.N. ambassador Susan Rice's controversial Sunday show statements about the attack. 
  
 Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, calling for a select committee to be established to conduct an investigation, interview Obama administration officials and hold public hearings on the probe. 
  
 "It is now abundantly clear that senior White House staff were directly involved in coordinating the messaging in response to the Benghazi attacks and were actively working to tie the reason to the infamous Internet video," Wolf wrote Wednesday. 
  
 New emails indicate a White House adviser helped prep Rice for her Sunday show appearances and pushed the explanation linking the attack to an anti-Islamic film -- and now, the White House is facing credibility questions after having downplayed their role in Rice's "talking points." 
  
 Wolf argues in the letter that the new evidence underscores the need for a select committee with subpoena power and the authority to read classified documents. Boehner has previously stated he opposes the creation of a select committee. 
  
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 "While we cannot control how this administration pursues, or fails to pursue, those terrorists responsible for the deaths of four Americans, we can ensure that the American people learn the truth about what happened and which officials should be held accountable," Wolf wrote. 
  
 In January, three family members of victims of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack wrote to Boehner demanding that a select committee be established to probe the attack. So far, Boehner has only authorized House committees to investigate the matter. 
  
 During a heated briefing with reporters Wednesday afternoon, Press Secretary Jay Carney repeatedly tried to claim that the so-called "prep call" with Rice -- as it was described in one email -- was not about Benghazi. The prep session, he said, was just about the demonstrations elsewhere in the Muslim world that week. 
  
 "It is not about Benghazi -- it is about the protests around the Muslim world," Carney claimed. 
  
 The White House has said all along that Rice relied on the best available intelligence, from the intelligence community, when she discussed the Benghazi attack. 
  
 But the documents obtained and released by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, included a Sept. 14, 2012, email from White House aide Ben Rhodes, an assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for strategic communications. 
  
 The Rhodes email, with the subject line: "RE: PREP Call with Susan: Saturday at 4:00 pm ET," was sent to a dozen members of the administration's inner circle, including key members of the White House communications team such as Carney. 
  
 In the email, Rhodes specifically draws attention to the anti-Islam Internet video, without distinguishing whether the Benghazi attack was different from protests elsewhere. 
  
 The email lists the following two goals, among others: 
  
 "To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy." 
  
 "To reinforce the President and Administration's strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges." 
  
 Republican critics, who have long claimed the administration's narrative was politically motivated, pointed to that email as a "smoking gun." 
  
 But Carney insisted that the Rhodes email was distinct from the intelligence community talking points in that it referred to preparing Rice for questions about the protests elsewhere. 
  
 "They were about the general situation in the Muslim world," Carney said, going so far as to read headlines from stories at the time that highlighted those protests -- underscoring that they were a big news story at the time. 
  
 He declined to answer directly when asked if the White House would correct the record regarding statements downplaying its role in the talking points. He did acknowledge what was evident from the Rhodes email -- that "the White House had a role in that document, obviously." 
  
 Boehner issued a statement Wednesday night saying, “Four Americans lost their lives in Benghazi, and this White House has gone to extraordinary lengths to mislead, obstruct, and obscure what actually took place. 
  
 During the week of the Benghazi attack, protests had broken out by U.S. embassies in several countries in Africa and the Middle East, including intense demonstrations in Cairo. But by the time of Rice's Sunday show appearances, the death of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi was the dominant story -- Carney faced skepticism in the briefing room in claiming that the Rhodes email was not referring, at least in large part, to that. 
  
 Further, the document sent to Judicial Watch was released in response to a request for records pertaining to Benghazi. 
  
 And the same memo was sent to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, likewise, following a subpoena seeking Benghazi documents. 
  
 "If this is not a smoking gun, proving beyond any doubt, the story told by the administration about Benghazi was politically motivated and fabricated, nothing will ever prove that," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said. 
  
 Fox News' Catherine Herridge contributed to this report. ||||| White House press secretary Jay Carney answers questions during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington on April 30. (Photo: AP) 
  
 The White House should "come clean" and release all of its e-mails related to the crafting of former U.N. ambassador Susan Rice's message on the Benghazi attack, including ones redacted for supposed national security purposes, says the GOP. 
  
 Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a member of a House committee investigating the attack, made the demand a day after the release of an e-mail showing that White House aide Ben Rhodes wanted to blame the 2012 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on a protest that never happened there. 
  
 Referring to Benghazi and Middle East unrest, he said that she should "underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy." 
  
 Chaffetz told USA TODAY that the White House has turned over e-mails with much of the content blocked out. 
  
 "There were other e-mails that went to Susan Rice. We got them with heavy redactions," Chaffetz told USA TODAY. "The White House needs to come clean on what they said." 
  
 White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday that Rhodes' e-mail had been misconstrued because it was referring to protests happening across the Muslim world at the time. 
  
 "The e-mail and the talking points were not about Benghazi. They were about the general situation in the Muslim world," Carney said. 
  
 But the White House had provided the emails to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform based on a request for communications on Benghazi. And portions on Rhodes' email that were blocked out pertained to Benghazi. 
  
 The emails came to light only after a watchdog group sued for the unblocked emails under a Freedom of Information Request. 
  
 Carney's claim is "laughable," Chaffetz said. "Susan Rice was asked about Benghazi and she repeated exactly what Ben Rhodes wanted her to say." 
  
 Susan Rice used her TV appearances to deny that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist plot and to blame it on a non-existent protest that turned violent. U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three State Department employees were killed in the attack, which the White House later acknowledged was a planned terrorist attack and not preceded by a protest. 
  
 Republican lawmakers have accused the White House of seeking to minimize the role of terrorism in the attack while President Obama was seeking re-election and claiming that al-Qaeda was in retreat. 
  
 Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the latest revelations show the need for a joint Senate-House committee to investigate the administration's handling of Benghazi, similar to ones that investigated Watergate and the Iran-contra affair during the Nixon and Reagan administrations. 
  
 But congressional leaders in the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate have refused to sign on to that idea. 
  
 The latest batch of e-mails are significant because although Rice repeated inaccurate information about the attack that was provided by CIA analysts, "the White House has long claimed it was not a participant in the crafting of the talking points," Chaffetz said. "That's the revelation in this e-mail. They were involved." 
  
 House Democrats, such as Elijiah Cummings of Maryland, have denounced the requests as an attempt to politicize a tragedy. White House and State Department officials have said for months they've provided thousands of documents and spent hundreds of hours testifying in private and in open hearings before Congress about Benghazi. 
  
 Chaffetz said his committee received 3,200 additional pages of new documents in the past 30 days — evidence, he said, that the White has not been forthcoming. 
  
 Also on Wednesday, the State Department announced that global terrorism rose more than 40% in 2013 compared with the previous year, much of it due to al-Qaeda and its affiliates, the Associated Press reported. 
  
 The State Department's "Country Reports on Terrorism 2013" identified a 43% increase in the number of terrorist attacks in 2013 from 2012, according to statistics provided by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. 
  
 It counted 9,707 terrorist attacks around the world in 2013, resulting in more than 17,800 deaths and more than 32,500 injuries. Most of those occurred in Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Thailand and Yemen. 
  
 "Al-Qaeda and its affiliates and adherents worldwide continue to present a serious threat to the United States, our allies, and our interests," the State report said. "While the international community has severely degraded AQ's core leadership, the terrorist threat has evolved." 
  
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1kuMX3C ||||| WASHINGTON — A newly released email shows that White House officials sought to shape the way Susan E. Rice, then the ambassador to the United Nations, discussed the Middle East chaos that was the context for the attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. 
  
 The email dated Sept. 14, 2012, from Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, to Ms. Rice was obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request. The subject of the email was: “PREP CALL with Susan.” 
  
 That email was sent ahead of Ms. Rice’s appearance on several Sunday morning news talk programs three days after the attacks that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya. 
  
 Conservative critics of President Obama have long contended that political considerations at the White House were the reason that Ms. Rice attributed the Benghazi attacks to spontaneous protests sparked by an anti-Muslim Internet video. Critics have said she downplayed the idea that the attacks were linked to terrorism because it would undermine the notion that Mr. Obama was winning the war on terror. 
  
 The email from Mr. Rhodes includes goals for Ms. Rice’s appearances on the shows and advice on how to discuss the subject of the protests that were raging in Libya and at other American diplomatic posts in the Middle East. 
  
 Among the goals that Mr. Rhodes identified: “To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.” In a section called “Top-lines,” Mr. Rhodes added: “Since we began to see protests in response to this Internet video, the president has directed the Administration to take a number of steps. His top priority has been the safety and security of all Americans serving abroad.” 
  
 Earlier emails had documented the concern among White House and other administration officials about talking points produced by the Central Intelligence Agency about the Benghazi incident. The email sent by Mr. Rhodes and released on Wednesday had not been part of the previous batch of documents. 
  
 Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, dismissed the new email as irrelevant, saying that the subject of the advice from Mr. Rhodes in the email was not about Benghazi, but rather about the protests that were taking place across the Middle East at the time. 
  
 “This document, as I said, was explicitly not about Benghazi but about the general dynamic in the Arab, or in the Muslim world, at the time,” Mr. Carney told reporters. “This was part of our effort to explain our views, both as a matter of policy and as a matter of what was happening on the ground with regards to the protests that were underway around the region.” 
  
 Mr. Carney said the email from Mr. Rhodes was not included with the prior batch of documents because it was not directly about the Benghazi attack. But conservatives signaled they intend to use the new document as evidence that Ms. Rice’s appearances on the talk shows were guided by political, not intelligence, considerations. |||||
Output:
The White House did coach Susan Rice on how to discuss the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, a newly released email shows. The email was sent on Sept. 14, 2012, three days after the attack, from deputy national security adviser Benjamin J. Rhodes to Rice, who was then ambassador to the UN, the New York Times reports. The subject line is "PREP CALL with Susan," and the email includes goals and advice for Rice's appearance on several Sunday talk shows two days later, during which she blamed the attack on protests, not terrorism. Rhodes said one goal was for Rice to "underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy," which aligns with what critics have long said: that Rice didn't link the attacks to terrorism because it would signal a failure of the Obama White House's war on terror—and that it was therefore a political move, not one based on intelligence considerations. But White House press secretary Jay Carney downplayed the new email, which was released in response to a FOIA request, saying it "was explicitly not about Benghazi but about the general dynamic in the Arab, or in the Muslim world, at the time." Nevertheless, at least one Republican lawmaker is pushing for a select committee to investigate the attack in the wake of the new email, Fox News reports, and another wants the White House to release all related emails, including ones that have been redacted for national security purposes, USA Today notes.