At a recent hearing, former Deputy CIA Director Michael J. Morell said he used the Washington input thousands of miles away from the action to change the talking points, even though a field agent said the attack was not based on a video and was definitely a terrorist attack.
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"The analysts had an evidentiary basis to make the judgment that there was a protest ongoing at the time of the attack," Mr. Morell said. "Altogether, there were roughly a dozen or so reports indicating that this was the case."
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