Rachel Maddow nailed it in this video: GOP Benghazi hysteria debunked. For one, Congress had the revised talking points for months:

So Congress has had the talking points and how they were changed and by whom for a couple months now, showing the revisions, showing how they happened.

ABC published them today for the public as if they were a smoking gun, and all the Republicans in Congress who already had these things and have had them for months reported to be outraged by what was in them, shocked, , impeach, impeach!

They have had them for two and a half months now, and they never said anything about them before. Just today they decided it was a smoking gun, even though this has been long answered.

President Obama must have given her those talking points, right GOP?

He’s the worst coverer-upper ever:

“Americans died… They were not … adequately protected. The day after it happened, I acknowledged this was an act of terrorism.

“Talking points… have been a side show.

“Suddenly, three days ago, this gets spun up as if there’s something new to the story. There’s no there there.

“The talking points… for Susan Rice.. matched what I received in my daily briefing.

“I specifically said it was an act of terrorism…”

“So if this was some effort on our part to try to downplay what had happened or tamp it down, that would be a pretty odd thing that three days later, we end up putting out all the information that in fact has now served as the basis for everybody recognizing that this was a terrorist attack and that it may have included elements that were planned by extremists inside of Libya.

“Who executes some sort of cover-up or effort to tamp things down, for three days? So the whole thing defies logic, and the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly has a lot to do with political motivations.

“We’ve had folks who have challenged Hillary Clinton’s integrity, Susan Rice’s integrity, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering’s integrity. It’s a given that mine gets challenged by these same folks. They’ve used it for fundraising and frankly, you know, if anybody out there wants to actually focus on how we make sure something like this does not happen again, I am happy to get their advice and information and council.

“We turn things like this into a political circus.”

H/t: Think Progress