On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:01:32 -0700, Klaus Schadenfreude
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klausscha...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:35:15 -0500, FEMA Rendition Camps Czar
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fea...@poo.com> wrote:
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>>There is a entire infrastructure that has the
>>responsibilities of babysitting CIA operatives who were spying
>>in a foreign country
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>CIA OPERATIVES SPYING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY???????
>
>Really?
Really.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/17/truth-justice-and-benghazi.html
In fact, the whole picture of the "consulate" in Benghazi, as
portrayed in most of the headlines and hearings, is misleading. It was
not really a consulate at all by the strict State Department
definition of the term, it was called a "special mission" and had
grown out of the improvised presence that Chris Stevens had
established in Benghazi as the envoy to the rebels during the fighting
to overthrow the Gaddafi dictatorship.
From the beginning, the agency was there behind the scenes. When a
terrorist bomb hit the hotel where Stevens was staying during the
fighting in 2011, he and his team just moved in with the CIA at their
so-called "Annex."
Even after Stevens officially became ambassador in Tripoli in mid-2012
he did not take the initiative to turn the diplomatic mission in
Benghazi into a formal consulate. Partly as a result, it started to
fall between the bureaucratic cracks at Foggy Bottom and couldn�t
command as many security measures as it should have. as it should
have.
As one knowledgeable U.S. official told The Daily Beast's Eli Lake,
"The Benghazi compound was a U.S, intelligence station with State
Department cover." The agency operation run out of "the Annex"
involved at least two dozen people. The "mission" was their satellite,
not the other way around. And what were the agency people doing in
Benghazi? Obviously, among other things, hunting for Al Qaeda�which by
last September appeared to be hunting for them, as Newsweek reported
in its investigation of the case last October.
State Department security officers were too few and fortifications too
weak to withstand a mob attack or a terrorist assault like the one on
September 11. And it is not clear how much more like Fort Apache that
compound would have had to be in order to hold off such an attack.
It's doubtful there would have been enough fortification and firepower
under any circumstances
>Who have you told about this?
It's sisyphean to try to educate brainwashed right wing dittoheads who
still believe Saddam had WMD and was responsible for 9-11.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/17/truth-justice-and-benghazi.html
Republicans are passionate about �Benghazi��41 percent think it�s the
biggest scandal in American political history!�but of those, 39
percent couldn�t identify the country where Benghazi is located.