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Exclusive: The Arming of Benghazi
Fox Business News ^ | 6-27-15 | Catherine Herridge & Pamela Browne

Posted on 06/28/2015 6:27:15 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

The United States supported the secret supply of weapons to Libyan rebels while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State according to federal court documents obtained by Fox News.

In a sworn declaration to the District Court of Arizona May 5th 2015, a career CIA officer David Manners said, "It was then, and remains now, my opinion that the United States did participate, directly or indirectly, in the supply of weapons to the Libyan Transitional National Council." The timing matters because in the Spring of 2011 the Libyan opposition was not formally recognized, and the direct supply of arms was not authorized. At that time, the CIA Director was David Petraeus. (DAVID MANNERS DOCUMENT HERE)

Manners testified before a grand jury investigating American defense contractor Marc Turi who faces trial this September on two counts that he allegedly violated the arms control export act by making false statements.

Turi and his company Turi Defense Group are at the center of an ongoing federal investigation over the source and user of weapons defined in court documents as "end user" or "end use" flowing into Libya as Moammar Qaddafi's regime was collapsing in 2011.

"It was then, and remains now, my opinion that the United States did participate, directly or indirectly, in the supply of weapons to the Libyan Transitional National Council."

- Sworn Federal Court Declaration by CIA Veteran David Manners

In "United States of America v. Marc Turi and Turi Defense Group," Manners identifies himself as having 18 years experience as an intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA, with foreign postings as Chief of Station in Prague, Czechoslovakia and in Amman, Jordan. Manners also stated he was “the executive assistant to the Deputy Director of the National Security Agency."

Manners’ declaration supports statements made exclusively to FOX News...

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicoverup; chrisstevens; cia; hdr22atclintonemail; hillaryclinton; weapons
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It is well worth taking the time to read this whole article, inluding the many links to other sources. Is this the "smoking gun" to bring down Hillary? Is anyone still paying attention?
1 posted on 06/28/2015 6:27:15 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
This transfer of MANPADs and arms to al Qaeda
will be protected .... by the GOP.


2 posted on 06/28/2015 6:30:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This was unearthed by the SEALS about two years ago.

Benghazi: The Definitive Report Kindle Edition
by Brandon Webb (Author), Jack Murphy (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JTYPN6Y/

It was a special operation being conducted out of the White House by the present day CIA Director, John Brennan, who happens to have converted to Islam.


3 posted on 06/28/2015 6:31:40 AM PDT by MN_Mike (Cruz 2016)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Well I guess better late than never?

It’s good to see someone at Fox is FINALLY reporting this story.

This is how ISIS is being armed.


4 posted on 06/28/2015 6:32:48 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: MN_Mike
CIA Director, John Brennan, who happens to have converted to Islam.

Indeed!

5 posted on 06/28/2015 6:32:58 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS or MPADS) are shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). They are typically guided weapons and are a threat to low-flying aircraft, especially helicopters.


6 posted on 06/28/2015 6:34:21 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Diogenesis

Yup...!

The reason why I be at investigation has dragged on for so long is because, yeah, a lot of prominent Republicans are wrapped up in this.

I hope that the truth comes out completely and if it ruins a dozen or more Republicans then I think that’s fine.

I don’t think I have anything to do with most of us here, anyway.


7 posted on 06/28/2015 6:36:39 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: afraidfortherepublic
This was know at the time…John Batchelor had three or four different people saying they were running guns out of there…the Turkish Ambassador was there just before the attack…they went through Turkey to Syria…
8 posted on 06/28/2015 6:37:06 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Is David Manners our Eugene Hasenfus?


9 posted on 06/28/2015 6:39:06 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: All
All of Obama's blathering has to be seen against the back-drop of his two foundation (two that we know of---as the Obamas get ready for the big Foundation payday.... ala the Clintons.

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QUICK, GIMME A BARF BAG Obama calls TPP "central"
to his second-term legacy, as well as to his (gag) foreign
policy and economic agendas.

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Very Interesting: few, if any, of the RCEP and TPP countries contributed to the buck-raking Clinton Foundation.

Looks like the Clintons and Obama divvied up the globe so that each have their own countries in order to collect big buck get-rich-quick foundation donations, honorarium, cosultancies, and int'l insider business deals.

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THE FACTS ARE THESE Obama's trade deal giveaway is a huge scam...best examined against the backdrop of Obama's two tax-exempt foundations (two-that we know of).

Obama's priming the pump for donations to his two Foundations. All of it---TPA and TPP--Obama's immigration suck-ups---his non-action WRT ISIS, IRAN---are best understood against the backdrop of Obama's future plans as an ex-president----more specifically, his two get-rich-quick Foundations (two foundations that we know of).

The aforementioned entities control billions of dollars---and Obama is lying-in-wait for his share.

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WIKI REFERENCE: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and the six states with which ASEAN has existing FTAs (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand). RCEP negotiations were formally launched in November 2012 at the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia.

10 posted on 06/28/2015 6:44:56 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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GAG-A-RAMA Just the other day--Obama proudly bragged that “today, once again, the US is the most respected country on earth.”

So it doesn’t matter Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine....

Or that China knows it can continue grabbing key sea areas, building vast artificial islands on which to plant its flag (and weapons). Or that Bashar al-Assad is back to using chemical weapons, because Obama won't enforce his own “red line.”

As for Iran: It’s already breaking the “interim” US nuclear deal by building enriched-uranium stockpiles far larger than it promised. Iraq? In the same town-hall, Obama talks of how “we were able to end two wars."

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Obama learned from the Clintons how to get a big payday for his two foundations: look on w/ approval even if countries invade and depopulate.....and never e-v-e-r utter a discouraging word e-v-e-r.

Maybe even shake hands w/ foreign tyrants to get mining permits and million dollar honorariums as Clinton did in Kazakhstan.

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How well Obama learned at the knee of Hillary when she was Obama's Secy of State. At that time the "State Dept Mission Statement" mentioned that it would "create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community."

(Well, profitable for the Clinton Foundation, anyway.)

Now it looks like that "prosperous world" is gonna happen, thanks to Obama's two foundations (/snix).

11 posted on 06/28/2015 6:45:50 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Bump.


12 posted on 06/28/2015 6:48:59 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: afraidfortherepublic; MN_Mike
CIA Director, John Brennan, who happens to have converted to Islam.

Ahhhh. Very cagey move. 'Course he's a spook. This is what spooks do. Infiltrate an organization by "converting" to it. Gosh. I hope the muzzies don't figure that out. Who knows what they'd do to him.

13 posted on 06/28/2015 6:49:45 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The public doesn’t care that the top guy and the head of State department willingly aided subhuman savages who want to kill us. And then lied.

More important things: bruce chopping off his weewee, Supreme Court violating the law.


14 posted on 06/28/2015 6:51:14 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

A year after Hillary Clinton cheered the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, with the infamous “We came, we saw, he died” statement made in 2011, Libya was engulfed in chaos, and four Americans, including the US ambassador to Libya, were killed in Benghazi.

Her response to a question about what led to the attacks went viral.

“What difference does it make at this point?” said Clinton. “It’s our job to make sure no one finds out what happened “ ...


15 posted on 06/28/2015 6:51:51 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Wait, no one can report this until the ghey celebrations are over.


16 posted on 06/28/2015 6:57:41 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Diogenesis

The GOP is Protecting these folks. What BS. Obama, Clinton, and this entire admin have lied to every investigator. This is not new. This contractor’s name and others are, but; we knew Obama and his crooks were using Benghazi and Libya to ship arms. Obama armed the Libyans.


17 posted on 06/28/2015 7:03:43 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: I want the USA back

From another thread (How Republics Die) the closing lines are significant:

When the public doesn’t care, or understand the role of the branches of government, but votes anyway for people who tell them they’ll just give them stuff they like, that is how republics are lost.


18 posted on 06/28/2015 7:47:23 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Freepers knew this two days after the 4 were killed!!!


19 posted on 06/28/2015 7:55:14 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Lumper20

The GOP Leadership KNEW also because Obama and Hillary wanted them to be CO-CONSPIRATORS in this ILLEGAL gun running so they wouldn’t be going to the media with the info! BUT.....it’s Obama and Hillary’s deal all the way.


20 posted on 06/28/2015 7:58:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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