Posted on 12/02/2014 12:34:13 PM PST by Starman417
The media and Democrats have been crowing that the House Intelligence Committee report on Benghazi cleared the Obama administration of any wrong doing.
But when you actually read the report you find the exact opposite.
So they found that the administration and State department failed to adequately secure the site...this does NOT clear them of wrongdoing.
The report also denies that any transfers of weapons from Libya to Syria were being conducted by the CIA
4) The report attempts to deny U.S. facilitation of weapons transfers from Libya to Syria via Benghazi, but leaves a significant amount of yet unquestioned wiggle room
Note that nowhere in the report does the House Intelligence Committee define what “unauthorized activities” consist of.
The report continues:
Note that this finding specifically refers to the collection and facilitation of weapons shipments at the CIA Annex. Does this rule out that the CIA might not have facilitated arms sales “indirectly” through third-party “cut outs?” Would such activities qualify as “authorized activities?” Would such activities have to be disclosed publicly?
Consider what investigative journalist Seymour Hersh (himself no Tea Partier, in fact quite the opposite), wrote in a bombshell April 2014 article in the London Review of Books [emphasis ours]:
A highly classified annex to the report [a Senate Intelligence Committee report from January 2014], not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations. It pertained to the rat line [a back channel developed in this case to transfer weapons to Syria]. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it became known he was having an affair with his biographer. (A spokesperson for Petraeus denied the operation ever took place.)Hersh continues [emphasis ours]:The operation had not been disclosed at the time it was set up to the congressional intelligence committees and the congressional leadership, as required by law since the 1970s. The involvement of MI6 enabled the CIA to evade the law by classifying the mission as a liaison operation. The former intelligence official [one of Hersh's primary sources] explained that for years there has been a recognised exception in the law that permits the CIA not to report liaison activity to Congress, which would otherwise be owed a finding. (All proposed CIA covert operations must be described in a written document, known as a ‘finding’, submitted to the senior leadership of Congress for approval.) Distribution of the annex was limited to the staff aides who wrote the report and to the eight ranking members of Congress – the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate, and the Democratic and Republicans leaders on the House and Senate intelligence committees. This hardly constituted a genuine attempt at oversight: the eight leaders are not known to gather together to raise questions or discuss the secret information they receive.Ken Timmerman, author of “Dark Forces,” with whom we spoke earlier this year on Benghazi, agrees with Seymour Hersh’s assessment, telling us recently via e-mail: “In the Benghazi-to-Syria transfers, CIA most likely operated under existing Global War on Terrorism findings and more generally under cover of ‘liaison’ operations which are not considered U.S. Covert ops.”…‘The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms,’ the former intelligence official, who has read the annex, said. ‘It had no real political role.’
In testimony from a HPSCI hearing on November 15, 2012, appended to the full report, former Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell tells us:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
The 911 report cleared Bill Clinton and gang of wrong doing. Business as usual. Corrupt crooks protecting each other.
Tiz NOT the Gowdy Select Committee report. Just some critters trying to muddy the waters more.
Is the Trey Gowdy investigation?
Whose names are on this report so we know who’s lying when Trey Gowdy completes his investigation.
-Breitbart-
No matter what story is used, there is no excuse for abandoning Americans and then watching them get killed in the WH situation room.
We may find out House Intel members were all privy to Obama’s gunrunning and are now trying to cover their ass?
I thought the MSM used up all the whitewash in the Western Hemisphere, THEN
...from the Breitbart link:
FALSE FINDING #9: Page 20, Paragraph 2 reads:
Although some security officers voiced a greater urgency to depart for the TMF, no officer at the CIA was ever told to stand down. The evidence from eyewitness testimony, ISR video footage, closed-circuit television recordings and other sources provides no support for the allegation that there was any stand-down order.
FROM THE CIA CONTRACTORS on the GROUND:
This statement is grossly incorrect. Paronto stated to the committee, looking Rep. Rogers directly in the eye, that he was delayed and was told to wait twice. Paronto also stated that the “27” minute delay and his team waiting was a severe military tactical mistake made by leadership figures who had little to no military training or experience in combat operations, and the delay cost the lives of Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith due to them dying from smoke inhalation—something that takes time.
It should also be noted that the exact words “STAND DOWN” were used by the Chief of Base “Bob” to Tiegen approximately 15 minutes after the initial “help” call from the DS agents on the radio at the facility under attack.
Tiegen did not testify with his fellow teammates, Kris “Tanto” Paronto, Mark “Oz” Geist or Jack Silva. Tiegen testified alongside the CIA GRS staff team leader. This was a tactical maneuver by the Committee and the CIA since Tiegen was still employed by the CIA and scheduled to deploy shortly thereafter. This put immense pressure on Tiegen to testify in line with the CIA and Mike Rogers “cover up” agenda. It should be noted as well that Tiegen was not asked by Mike Rogers or the committee if he was told to “stand down” during his testimony. That question was directed, by the committee, to the GRS staff team leader only. The video footage from the Annex show the GRS security contractors getting in and out of their vehicles and approaching the CIA Chief of Base “Bob” and GRS Staff Team Leader several times within the 27 minutes delay. This was due to the GRS security contractors continually requesting to “Bob” and Team Leader to leave the Annex to save the lives of the DS agents who were under attack and burning.
It is also important to note that the excuse for the delay by the CIA Base Chief “Bob” and GRS staff Team Leader was their alleged effort to gather intelligence of the situation and obtain gun trucks with heavier weapons to assist in the rescue operation. Neither of these “excuses” by “Bob” or the Team Leader was realized once the GRS security contractors left the Annex without orders. The GRS security contractors still went in to the rescue, 27 minutes after the first DS request for help, without any new intelligence or information and without gun trucks or heavy weapons.
The delay departing the Annex allowed Ansar Al Sharia to reinforce the avenues of approach to the Temporary Mission Facility with AK-47s and RPG’s. This caused the GRS security contractors to dismount their vehicles to suppress enemy fire and tactically move the remaining 350-400 meters, approximately, on foot over several 8-foot concrete walls and backyards through “deadspace,” adding an additional 20-minute delay to the 27-minute delay from the Annex.
“”Whose names are on this report so we know who’s lying when Trey Gowdy completes his investigation.””
Only two names are on the report - Mike Rogers (MI) and Ruppersberger (MD). I don’t know why they tried to pass it off as a report by the whole committee but stranger things have happened in DC... Rogers wasn’t interested in investigating anything so he just went through the motions as chairman.
“”Is the Trey Gowdy investigation?””
No - that is expected to be held mostly behind closed doors and take up to 2 years to complete.
They were “in-the-loop” and fully briefed on the entire operation, and thus complicit in the end for what happened. Rogers is a contemptible clown who is retiring and this was his final act before skipping town.
The only good that comes of this is Worthless John Boehner is deprived of another henchman.
Don’t sweat it. Just wait for the next one. And the one after that, etc.
FYI
Benghazi ping.
Another great article that slipped through my Benghazi cracks.
Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.
Do you listen to the John Batchelor podcast/radioshow?
He often has two journalists on from the Long War Journal who know a lot about what’s going on in the middle east day by day.
I recently posted this which ties into Benghazi:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3235562/posts
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