Veteran Washington Post Newsman Bob Woodward on Sunday drew a parallel to the altered Benghazi reports to the Watergate scandal that he helped to uncover during President Richard Nixon's tenure in 1972.
Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," Woodward chided the Obama administration for rewriting the official releases on last year's attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya so that it removed mention of the word terrorism, among others, just ahead of the presidential election.
"On the whole Benghazi thing, you look at those talking points, and the initial draft by the CIA very explicitly said we know that activists who have ties to al-Qaeda were involved in the attack," he said. "And then you see what comes out a couple of days later and there is no reference to this. This is a business where you have to tell the truth, and that did not happen here."
Woodward added that the White House compounded the problems that resulted from the attack by lying about them.
"Some people in the administration…have acted as if they want to be Nixonian, and that's a very big problem. I think," Woodward said.
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