That’s an incredible article. Now, a big shell game being played by oblunder, hellery, and betrayus. All must go.
“The spy agency was the first to set up shop. It began building up its presence there soon after the Libyan revolution started in February 2011. The uprising overturned what had been a tight working relationship between the Gadhafi regime’s spy services and the Americans, creating a gap that the CIA presence sought to fill, officials said.
The CIA worked from a compound publicly referred to as the “annex,” which was given a State Department office name to disguise its purpose. The agency focused on countering proliferation and terrorist threats, said an American security contractor who has worked closely with CIA, the Pentagon and State. A main concern was the spread of weapons and militant influences throughout the region, including in Mali, Somalia and Syria, this person said.
Libyan officials say they were kept in the dark about what the CIA was doing in Benghazi. “The Americans had people coming and going with great frequency. Frankly, our records were never clear [about] who was out there” in Benghazi, said a senior Libyan government official in Tripoli.”
One thing that has been forgotten on all this is that on that very same day, our seemingly lightly guarded embassy in Cairo was attacked and ended up with the black flag of Al Qaeda flying over it. And nobody is suggesting that the Cairo embassy was anything other than an embassy, probably with the same amount CIA involvement as any embassy.
I read one statement made early on that US facilities were kept lightly guarded to make it clear that we trusted our new friends in the Islamist - Er, I mean Arab Spring and to project an image of normalcy. This is similar to the policy in Afghanistan that send our troops out with supposedly trusty locals who turn around and blow them away, or the fact that our own troops are not allowed to carry weapons on some bases. I remember when Panetta visited, they were all disarmed.
So no matter what agency was involved, there is definitely a policy in place universally that keeps our facilities vulnerable, and it is all the result of Obama’s desire to suck up to the Islamists and blame America first.
Even the explanation that the CIA “responded” at the Benghazi compound within 25 minutes is ridiculous: the CIA is not the military and was clearly under equipped to deal with this. The fact that the terrorists (because AQ is classified as a terrorist group and thus this was a terrorist attack, semantics aside) started their attack, as I recall, by bombing the consulate wall so they could get I should certainly have given them a hint that this was something that needed a forceful response.
So Obama &Co. can blame any agency they want, but it is still clear that they had a policy of not defending American interests.