I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again.
Imo, the whole thing was a setup by the Obama Regime meant to provide a living hostage (Mr. Scott) to the jihadiscum that could then be ransomed back to the US for several million dollars of direct aid to an enemy.
I also believe that the event was meant to allow the jihadiscum to take possession of sensitive intel at the consulate.
The defense mounted by the few brave men enraged the jihadiscum enough that they killed Mr. Scott.
Why do you suppose the Obama administration is pretending that the $400 million paid to Iran as ransom for the hostages held by that country was not actually ransom, but instead was a settlement of a claim — a claim that we now know was rejected in the courts in 2009?
Ambassador Stevens. Mr. Scott was the engineer on the Enterprise.
And I also disagree in that it was for ransom but it was to be an exchange for the Blind Shiek that exists evidence there was some sort of deal in the making two weeks prior from leaked State Department sources. I heard of the story two weeks before 9/11/12.
WHO is Mr. Scott????
What you say may be true. I did some research right after the Benghazi attack for a college assignment.
You have to remeber the time period. This was just before the 2ND or 3Rd debate for POTUS. They had to play down the terrorist angle, so they came up with the video lie.
The US had recently dispatched the Libyan and Egyptian governments and was fully behind the overthrow of Assad. You have to remember that all of those nations(as well as Iraq)were former Soviet client states. Russia was losing ground in the middle east.
Obama was pushing for a coalition war against the Assad regime, however he was getting significant pushback from the American people and international community.
They had created insurgent militias (ISIS) in Syria and were funneling arms from the vacated arms depots in Libya through Turkey, into Syria.
The Russians didn’t like this, of course, and warned the US to stop it. They even went to the UN with intelligence (hacked emails?) evidence of what was happening and that US was planning a false flag chemical weapons event to sway world opinion against the Assad regime. Which happened BTW.
The false flag event didn’t have the impact Obama/Clinton desired, probably due to the Russians leaking it to the UN. The Russian went to the UN again to stop the secret flow of weapons, but it fell on deaf ears. Putin out right warned the US to stop or there would be consequences.
The reason why no US forces were deployed to Benghazi, was because it was a planned attack, probably orchestrated by Russian special Ops and carried out by thier agents in the region. If we sent war assets to the area we would expose not only what we were doing, but it would have brought us in direct conflict with Russia. Russia had the evidence and would expose us to the world community.
At a minimum it would have created a huge International incident just prior to a presidential election. Hense the video lie.
This is probably the single biggest foreign policy blunder ever recorded. Because of this Russia now has influence throughout the middle east. They operate freely through Syria, have bases in Iran, have been asked to be stationed in Yemen, and are currently asking Turkey to use Incirlik AB (which we built), and it looks like they are persuading Turkey to leave NATO.
Just my .02
This is definitely smoking gun type information. Donald has to be the one to bring it up.
Who is Mr. Scott?