The partisan rift over last year’s fatal attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, deepened Friday with the release of emails showing internal government discussions of the public talking points used by government officials. Republican critics say the emails show the Obama administration was more involved in revising the talking points than it has previously disclosed. But White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said no major changes were made and that the discussions were routine.

Jay Carney: “The White House, as I said, made one minor change to the talking points drafted by and produced by the CIA and, even prior to that, made very few — had very few inputs on it. The other discussions that went on prior to this in an inter-agency process reflected the concerns of a variety of agencies who had a stake in this issue, both the FBI because it was investigating, the CIA obviously and other intelligence agencies, and the State Department because an ambassador had been killed and a diplomatic facility had been attacked. And what I think the concern was is that these points not provide information that was speculative in terms of whether it was relevant to what happened.”