2013-05-14

Is Benghazi about to blow sky high?

In a previous post on socionomics and impeachment, I looked at Benghazi. I linked to this post, Bracken: Did Obama Withhold Cross-Border Authority?, which speculated:
Now, as far as Obama / Huma Abedin / Valerie Jarrett etc actually wanting Ambassador Stevens dead, to terminate the end of the very dirty Libyan arms to Syrian AQ programs, I can’t speculate. Obama is not competent enough, I’m thinking.

But for sure, the ambassador going to unsecure Benghazi on 9-11 of all days stinks to me of a setup. You can bet Stevens would have told the Turks, “No, 9-11 is not a good day for us,” and stayed in Tripoli behind many high and thick walls. For him to go to dangerous Benghazi on 9-11 means the Turks totally insisted, but why would they care about the meeting date, unless they were in on a “hit” as the Judas goat?

Alternatively, ordering Stevens to meet the Turks in Benghazi on 9-11 may have come from down OUR chain of command. Stevens seems to have been wearing two hats as ambassador and CIA arms shipper. Moving between more-secure Tripoli, the Benghazi “consulate,” and the CIA “annex.” So orders to him might come down the State or the CIA commo channels, or both. I am unclear on his job title and true position, but either the CIA or State sends him final instructions. How this works with “dual-hatted” ambassadors, I haven’t a clue.
I didn't quote the beginning part because it seemed sensational and off target, but I had heard discussion of arms deals previously. Karl Denninger has also noted this, such as in Hint: Quit Blowing Obama:
The press will not hold the government's feet to the fire on Benghazi, because then we have to admit that Chris Stevens was basically assassinated with our government's permission, and one must then ask the obvious question: What the hell were we actually doing over there that led those folks to want to kill him? Was it an attempt to "take back" arms we had given a group of people known hostile to the United States? That leads to some damned uncomfortable places if you're on your knees before Obama with his pants around his ankles, doesn't it?
This sounds like conspiracy talk right? Just right-of-center guys who are throwing out ideas, including some which paint the President in the worst possible light.

But then today I see this: An alternative explanation for the Benghazi talking points: Bureaucratic knife fight
First, some important context: Although the ambassador was killed, the Benghazi “consulate” was not a consulate at all but basically a secret CIA operation which included an effort to round up shoulder-launched missiles. In fact, only seven of the 30 Americans evacuated from Benghazi had any connection to the State Department; the rest were affiliated with the CIA.
Well this seems to be news: it wasn't a State Department mission, but a CIA mission to round up weapons.
So, from the State Department perspective, this was an attack on a CIA operation, perhaps by the very people the CIA was battling, and the ambassador tragically was in the wrong place at the wrong time. But, for obvious reasons, the administration could not publicly admit that Benghazi was mostly a secret CIA effort.

The talking points were originally developed by the CIA at the request of a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Interestingly, all of the versions are consistent on one point — that the attacks were “spontaneously inspired by protests at the U.S. embassy in Cairo,” a fact later deemed to be incorrect.
The Washington Post looks at the story entirely from the inside baseball of politics, but this raises the issue of what was really going on. It seems it's widely known by those following the story that this was as CIA mission to collect arms and that the attack likely was related to this mission, perhaps these were even the terrorists armed by the U.S. who killed the ambassador. Now it makes sense why this was covered up......but I get the sense from a cursory following of the story that most Americans, including many in the media, aren't aware of the real story.

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