Bombshell: Would-Be Hillary Campaign Adviser Lied About CIA’s Role Editing Benghazi Talking Points

Independent Journal Review ^ | February 2014 | Kyle Becker

[Sal]

Thank you for your post #11! Gentle Ben Carson has steel in his spine and can talk as straight as Trump.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping; posts

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It’s easy to…

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C’mon November

[maggief]

FLASHBACK:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/01/ex-cia-boss-morell-to-face-heavy-questioning-on-benghazi-at-wednesday-hearing/

Mukasey also said Morell should be asked to explain his post-CIA career decisions which closely align him with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aides. After retiring from the CIA, Morell joined Beacon Global Strategies as a counselor.Fox News was first to report on the connections between Beacon’s founding partners, Morell, Clinton and the House Intelligence Committee.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/24/revolving-door-ties-between-consultancy-govt-raise-questions-about-benghazi/

Morell, who also is a national security analyst for CBS News and has a book deal, joined the Beacon firm after retiring from the CIA last year. In doing so, he joined an organization already stacked with ex-government officials. Among them is Philippe Reines, whom the New York Times magazine recently described as Clinton’s “principal gatekeeper.” According to Beacon’s website, Reines traveled to more than 110 countries with the then-Secretary of State as part of her senior team.

Another employee, Jeremy Bash, was a former chief of staff to Leon Panetta at both the CIA and Defense Department. Andrew Shapiro was a Clinton policy adviser at the State Department whose portfolio included ridding Libya of shoulder-launched missiles called MANPADs.

And it includes Republican J. Michael Allen, who was a former majority staff director for the House Intelligence Committee, headed by Republican Rep. Mike Rogers.

http://beaconglobalstrategies.com/team/michael-j-morell/

MICHAEL J. MORELL
Counselor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_Global_Strategies_LLC

Beacon Global Strategies LLC (BGS) is a Washington, DC-based strategic advisory firm founded by partners Michael Allen, Jeremy Bash, Philippe Reines, and Andrew Shapiro in 2013.[1][2] According to the firm’s website, Beacon Global Strategies specializes in matters of international policy, foreign affairs, national defense, cyber, intelligence, and homeland security.[3]

About BGS[edit]

A September 2013 article in Defense News, describes Beacon Global Strategies as unique for a Washington consulting firm because of its partners’ intent to eventually return to government. The article noted that “Part of the confidence in future public service may stem from a combination of significant titles and relative youth, paired with the fact that most of the founders of the firm have ties to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who may be a presidential favorite heading into the 2016 election if she decides to run.”[1]

A September 2013 Washington Post profile of Beacon Global Strategies highlighted the firm’s bipartisan make up: “‘We want to build bipartisan support for solutions to complex national security problems,’ Bash said, noting that cooperation between Democrats and Republicans on these issues ‘has been lacking in recent years.’”[4]
BGS Leadership[edit]

Before founding Beacon Global Strategies, the four partners served in a variety of government positions:

Michael Allen served as Majority Staff Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), under Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) from 2011-2013.[5] He previously served in the George W. Bush White House.[6] Allen is the author of “Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11” (Potomac Books Inc. September 2013).[7]

Jeremy Bash was the only Obama Administration official to have served as Chief of Staff in two national security departments or agencies: first as Chief of Staff to the Director of the CIA (2009-2011) and most recently as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense (2011-2013).[8][9] Philippe Reines is a long-time Senior Advisor to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
From 2009-2013, Reines served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Communications and Senior Communications Advisor.[10] Reines served from 2002-2009 as Senior Advisor & Press Secretary for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.[11]

Andrew Shapiro is the former and longest serving Senate confirmed United States Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs (2009-2013).[12] During the presidential transition of Barack Obama, Shapiro was a member of the Obama-Biden Department of Defense Agency Review Team, and during the 2008 presidential election, a member of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, advising on foreign affairs.

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130903/DEFREG02/309030006

WASHINGTON — Consulting groups are routinely a place where former public servants are put out to pasture, a last stop to conclude careers built on senior government positions. But a group of former senior officials is building a new firm, Beacon Global Strategies, while retaining an additional goal.

They all want to go back into government.

Part of the confidence in future public service may stem from a combination of significant titles and relative youth, paired with the fact that most of the founders of the firm have ties to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who may be a presidential favorite heading into the 2016 election if she decides to run.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/09/03/former-hillary-clinton-aides-form-bipartisan-consulting-firm/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/18/benghazi-critics-hit-lobbying-firm/

Benghazi critics hit lobbying firm
‘Revolving door’ from public to private sector

Government watchdogs and a veteran congressman are sharply criticizing a bipartisan consulting firm formed by a trio of former Obama administration insiders and the former staff director of the House Intelligence Committee, whose Republican chairman opposes a select committee in the deadly September 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi.

J. Michael Allen resigned from the committee in August to join Beacon Global Strategies with Phillipe Reines, spokesman for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; former Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro; and Jeremy Bash, chief of staff to former CIA director and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta.

The firm will specialize in foreign affairs, national defense and homeland security. Mr. Panetta, a Clinton ally, is its first client.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/24/report-top-gop-benghazi-investigator-in-business-with-clintonistas/

Report: Top GOP Aide In Charge of Benghazi Investigation Forms Business With Clintoninstas

24 Mar 2014

One of the top Republican congressional staffers on the Benghazi investigation founded a consulting firm comprised of numerous former Clinton aides and a former CIA director accused of lying to Congress about the attack, Fox News reported Monday.

J. Michael Allen is the founder and managing director of Beacon Global Strategies. He previously served as the staff director for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by GOP Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan and perhaps the most important panel investigating Benghazi.

Allen’s new business partners at Beacon include:

Philippe Reines, a dyed-in-the-wool Clinton hatchet man who worked for Clinton from 2002 until founding Beacon

Andrew Shapiro, a former top State Department official (under Clinton) and senior policy adviser to Clinton

Josh Kirshner, a former top State Department official under Clinton who also worked for her as a Senate aide in 2006

Ashley Woolheater, who previously led a team “responsible for crafting and executing the strategic media goals of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton” at the State Department

Jeremy Bash, a former chief of staff to Leon Panetta at the Defense Department and CIA under President Obama

Julianne Smith, a former top aide to Vice President Joe Biden

Sarah Davey, a former aide to Michelle Obama who helped craft the “Let’s Move!” initiative

Meredith Steen, a low-level Democratic aide who interned for Democrat James Moran

Eight colleagues. All Democrats. Four worked in senior positions under Clinton, the other three at the Obama White House.

The Fox News report by Catherine Herridge notes that one month after Allen interviewed Morell about the Benghazi attack in May 2013, Beacon approached him to hire him. Allen was then one of the most senior GOP officials on the issue and Morell the deputy director at the CIA.

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[PGalt]

I wonder what it will take to bring them down. They can murder people and still roam free. Amazing to live in a regime.

3rd-world superpower with totalitarian systems in place for domestic enemies.

[Mr Apple]

You’re very welcome. Bye my friend. :)

[Whenifhow]

PING!!!

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Article from 2014 shows Mike Morell who is slamming Trump in the pages of the NY Times was responsible for the editing of the Benghazi talking points. Morell is a contributor for CBS News And Beacon Global Strategies.

There are two “Senior Counselor” positions with Beacon Global Strategies. One is filled by Mike Morell. Guess who holds the other one???

Leon Panetta

thanks, WildHighlander57

[Walkingfeather]

Why to Hewett, that douche sell out!

[hoosiermama]

Think how they used to pull this crap
On us before the Internet

Now we know. Our biggest issue is how do we get the word out to millions. Twitter /FB Friendly blogs and of course FR

[grania]

people are too stupid to pay attention

Not this year;they are paying attention. What happened this week was all out, throw everything into it they could war from the media, the dems, and from disgusting backstabbing nevertrumpistas who still hoped for a coup. Some stuff coming from inside Trump's campaign and its "supporters" (such as Newt) did seem to be enabling this endeavor.

It's up to us to help people sort through the lies and tactics of last week. The past few days, it does seem Trump has figured out who the infiltrators are and is running a focused campaign, making really good points at large rallies. Meanwhile, hillary isn't even campaigning this weekend.

Those Trump endorsements? I get it, but I don't like it. Now if McCain, Ryan and (yuk) Ayotte say negative stuff about Trump, it'll damage them more than it damages Trump.

Don't give up on the US voters. Folks know their lives are messed up, we're not safe, they aren't getting ahead economically. They're listening. We just have to have a direct, to-the-point style in conveying what's going on.

[Jane Long]

All the best, to you and to Mrs Apple, on your weeks long journey across the USA.

Thanks for your pings and posts!!

Reminding us ALL to keep up the good fight :)

[Whenifhow]

The Benghazi Brief – Three Year Anniversary… https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/12/the-benghazi-brief-three-year-anniversary/

We know this 2011 Libyan covert operation came to be known as “Operation Zero Footprint“, and fell under the military command authority of NATO not (important to repeat), NOT, the U.S. Military.

[ ]

We know Operation Zero Footprint was the covert transfer of weapons from the U.S to the Libyan “rebels”. We also know the operation avoided the concerns with congressional funding, and potential for public scrutiny, through financing by the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

[ ]

The Gang of Eight in 2011 would have included: Speaker – John Boehner, Minority Leader – Nancy Pelosi; House Permanent Select Committee on Intel Chairman – Mike Rogers, and his Democrat counterpart Charles Ruppersberger; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; along with Senate Intel Chair Diane Feinstein and her Republican counterpart, Saxby Chambliss.

[ ]

March 2011 through Pre 9/11/12 attack: Who knew of Operation “Zero Footprint”?:

 President Obama and Vice President Biden (both Dems)

 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Dem)

 CIA Director Leon Panetta (March 2011 – June 2011)

 *CIA Director General David Petraeus (?) (Sept 2011 – Nov 2012)

 NATO Commander, James G Stavridis

 White House National Security Advisor Tom Donilon (Dem)

 White House National Security Spox Tommy Vietor (Donilon aide)

 White House National Security Advisor John Brennan (Dem)

 Speaker of the House John Boehner (Rep)

 Minority Leader – Nancy Pelosi (Dem)

 House Permanent Select Committee on Intel Chairman – Mike Rogers (Rep)

 Minority House Intel Committee – Charles Ruppersberger (Dem)

 Senate Minority Leader – Mitch McConnell (Rep)

 Senate Majority Leader – Harry Reid (Dem)

 Senate Intel Chair – Diane Feinstein (Dem)

 Minority Senate Intel Committee – Saxby Chambliss (Rep)

 [State Dept] U.S. Libyan Ambassador – Chris Stevens

 [State Dept] U.S. Asst Secretary of State – Andrew Shapiro

 [State Dept] Senior Head of U.S. Weapons Office – Mark Adams

[Republicanprofessor]

Benghazi ping.

Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.

There are several articles I didn’t ping, while I was away, but you can see more Benghazi news under a FR topic search for Benghazi.

[UCANSEE2]

So does Morell work as a Security Advisor to Clinton? Or as a contributor to Clinton Broadcasting System?

I would presume he gets a PAYCHECK from BOTH. Like Huma was getting paychecks from FOUR 'jobs' at the same time.

It's always about the money.

[unixfox]

Like this will matter?

Pffft...

[Enchante]

Hi, please add me to your Benghazi ping list, and thanks for your important work here!

[Robert DeLong]

Loretta Lynch also worked for the Hogan law firm.

This is the first I have heard this mentioned. I looked it up and sure enough it is true.

In 2001, (Loretta) Lynch left the U.S. Attorney's office to become a partner at Hogan & Hartson (later Hogan Lovells). She remained there until January 20, 2010, when President Barack Obama nominated Lynch to again serve as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. From 2003 to 2005, she was a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Loretta Lynch - (3rd paragraph under early career)

Good catch there Mr. Apple. I hope you and your wife enjoy your vacation, or driving tour of the nation. I know you will be planting your Trump seeds around the country. You're a good man Mr. Apple, and I mean that sincerely.

[stayathomemom]

Thank you for your post #11! Gentle Ben Carson has steel in his spine and can talk as straight as Trump.

Dittos!
He is like a still, small voice.;-)

[Mr Apple]

Thank you both very much for your kind words. See you guys down the road. :)

Go Trump / Pence Go!

GET THROUGH TO CSPAN IN THE MORNINGS / GET THROUGH TO CSPAN IN THE MORNINGS

[bgill]

he was a part of it [Behghazi], Wolf. You can't get him out of it. He was in it. He knew what was going on.

I don't care for Carson but will give him kudos for stating that for the world to hear.

[VerySadAmerican]

The FBI and CIA and IRS and ALL of the letter agencies are against the people and work for the “machine”.