The penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency (CIA) about al-Qaeda's presence and activities of al-Qaeda.

The penultimate point could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings.

We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don't want to undermine the FBI investigation.

We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation.

O'REILLY: Today the House Ways and Means Committee questioned fired IRS commissioner Steve Miller and one of his deputies. The IRS has admitted it unfairly targeted conservative groups for years, although Miller said he didn't know much about it.

But the inspector general discovered the IRS targeting conservative groups months ago, so surely Mr. Miller and the White House knew the IRS was being investigated. Talking Points doesn't know who directed IRS agents to target conservative groups and individuals, but surely Miller knows much more than he's saying.

Only when IRS people from the inside start to blow the whistle will this scandal be defined; until that happens it's all speculation. What's not speculation is the chaos we are seeing in Washington right now, which is damaging the nation. The President is rightfully taking massive heat.

POWERS: "Nobody Thought Obama Called Benghazi A Terrorist Attack."

OBAMA: No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.

We grieve with their families, but let us carry on their memory, and let us continue their work of seeking a stronger America and a better world for all of our children.

Thank you. May God bless the memory of those we lost and may God bless the United States of America.

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GATES: I think the one place where I might be able to say something useful has to do with some of the talk of the military response. And I listened to the testimony of both Secretary Panetta and General Dempsey, and frankly had I been in the job at the time, I think that my decisions would have been just as theirs were.

We don't have a ready force standing by in the Middle East, despite all the turmoil that's going on with planes on strip alert, troops ready to deploy at a moment's notice. And so getting someone there in a timely way would have been very difficult if not impossible.

And frankly I've heard, well, why didn't you just fly a fighter jet over there to scare 'em with the noise or something. Given the number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from Qaddafi's arsenals I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances.

And with respect to sending in Special Forces or a small group of people to try and provide help, based on everything I've read people really didn't know what was going on in Benghazi contemporaneously, and to send some small number of Special Forces or other troops in without knowing what the environment is, without knowing what the threat is, without having any intelligence in terms of what is actually going on on the ground, I think would have been very dangerous and personally I would not have approved that because we just don't -- it's sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces.

The one thing our forces are noted for is planning and preparation before we send people in harm's way, and there just wasn't time.

OBAMA: The whole issue of talking point, frankly, throughout this process, has been a sideshow. We have been very clear about throughout that immediately after this event happened we were not clear who exactly had carried it out, how it had occurred, what the motivations were.

It happened at the same time as we had seen attacks on U.S. embassies in Cairo as a consequence of this film and nobody understood exactly what was taking place during the course of those first few days. And the e-mails that you allude to were provided by us to congressional committees.

They reviewed them several months ago, concluded that in fact there was nothing awful in terms of the process that we had used. And suddenly, three days ago, this gets spun up as if there is something new to the story. There is no there there.

OBAMA: 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? The whole thing defies logic.

OBAMA: 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 is a given that mine gets challenged by these same folks. They 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 counsel.

OBAMA: We dishonor State Department employees when we, you know, we turn things like this into a political circus. What happened was tragic, it was carried out by extremists inside of Libya.

We are out there trying to hunt down the folks who carried this out and we're trying to make sure we fix the system so that it doesn't happen again.

O'REILLY: If there is one guy you would not want to be today, it is White House spokesman Jay Carney. The press grilled him over charges that the White House altered the initial CIA reporting of the Benghazi attack to downplay the organized terrorism angle and play up the spontaneous anti-American demonstration angle.

Mr. Carney said the White House did nothing wrong, Ambassador Susan Rice did nothing wrong, and the whole controversy is being generated by Republicans for political reasons. But ABC News is reporting that there were 12 different versions of talking points on Benghazi and the final version eliminated references to Al Qaeda and affiliated terror organizations.

What Jay Carney attempted to do was convince the world that there was initial confusion about who attacked the American ambassador and killed him, and that the White House was acting responsibly in avoiding placing direct blame. But Ambassador Rice did place blame for the attack on the anti-Islamic video.

Summing up, there is no admission of wrongdoing by the Obama administration, there are charges that the Benghazi controversy is politically motivated, and there will be no release of emails that might clarify the situation.