White House Releases Emails On Benghazi Attack The White House is releasing 100 pages of emails related to the response to the September attack on a diplomatic post in Libya. The Obama administration had up to now declined to make the documents public and had only let congressional investigators review the documents without making copies. The documents describe how the administration developed "talking points" to describe what to discuss publicly immediately after the September 11, 2012, attack that killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Republican officials have criticised the White House for a lack of transparency in the wake of the attack, and accused it, along with the State Department, of a wide-ranging cover-up. The existence of internal emails that show edits being made to the State Department's talking points on the nature of the attack was revealed on Friday. United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice used the talking points to explain the attack days after it occurred. Republicans say Ms Rice's televised remarks on September 16 were just the start of administration efforts to mislead Americans about what happened in Libya. Top officials initially maintained the attack arose out of a spontaneous protest incited by an offensive You Tube video, but it was later determined to have been pre-planned by extremists. References in the talking points to an al Qaeda group were allegedly scrubbed - an act Republicans say was politically motivated. An independent inquiry into the attack, released in December, found the State Department badly mishandled security needs in Libya.