Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., on Sunday said the White House response to newly released internal emails about the Benghazi terrorist strike 'doesn't pass the laugh test' and insisted that a congressional special committee could get to the bottom of what truly happened in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack.
'Why is it that we're just receiving this email?' the Republican senator asked on 'Fox News Sunday.'
'It doesn't pass the laugh test,' Ayotte said of White House claims that officials were merely repeating talking points crafted by the Central Intelligence Agency. 'The video story clearly came from the White House.'
The emails show that top White House officials were involved in framing the narrative that an anti-Islam video was the root cause of the attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens.
In the emails, White House communications official Ben Rhodes lays out the goals for the now-infamous Sunday show appearance by then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice in the wake of the terrorist strike.
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