then-CIA Director David Petraeus said the terrorist references were taken out to, as the New York Times reported, “avoid tipping off the groups” that may have been involved.

This is what I’ve been saying all along. If there was ever any “cover story” it was because they were in the middle of an investigation and didn’t want to blow it by talking too much to the media. Police investigators do this all the time, but the CIA, FBI, and State Department aren’t allowed to? It’s astounded me that this is apparently too adult a notion for these hacks. But then again I forgot… there’s a black man in the White House.