...In May, one year after arriving aboard a cargo ship to work with those involved in the upstart rebellion, Stevens was appointed U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Glenn Beck was discussing this...believes there is a cover up going on. His theory ... the ambassador helped arm the rebels. Now they are trying to recover weapons before they end up in an incident killing Americans or Israel. Which would be an embarrassment to administration. (Paraphrase), Why was he there on September 11th with basically no security.
"....Christopher Stevens was a Middle Eastern diplomat who typified the new breed going from the University of Berkeley and the Peace Corps to desks in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. He taught English to Moroccan children in the Peace Corps and helped Palestinian Arabs in the East Jerusalem Consulate, which has a firm policy of pretending that Israel does not exist.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Christopher Stevens that he made other peoples hopes his own and that may serve as a fitting eulogy both for Stevens and for the disastrous foreign policy of making other peoples hopes our own that brought on the Arab Spring.
Stevens, like Clinton and Obama, made the hopes of Islamists his own and they repaid him for it, just as Afghans repaid America for supporting them against the Soviet Union, as Lebanon and Somalia repaid Americas peacekeeping efforts by killing American troops and on down the litany of gratitude in bombs and bullets that have come Americas way from the Muslim world........
....The only reason Christopher Stevens had lasted this long is that the jihadist fighters had known a useful man when they met him. And Stevens proved to be very useful, but his usefulness ended with Gaddafis death. Once the US successfully overthrew Gaddafi and began focusing on stabilizing Libya, Stevens ceased to be a useful idiot and became a useless nuisance. Attacks soon followed on the Benghazi consulate and on other consulates as well, but the Marines were not brought in and Stevens continued relying on local goodwill to secure his offices. It was only a matter of time until the attackers got through.....
....Stevens former Peace Corps colleague says of him, Chris devoted his career, and life, to improving relations between the Arabic/Islamic world and the West. That he did and he died doing it, losing whatever career or life he might have had if he had not embarked on a futile errand to make the Muslims who killed him and paraded around his body like him. And like all those who have died over the years in the same cause, the effort was to no avail. ...."
This theory is plausible. Might not be right but it is plausible.
The security guys were part of the team trying to track down the weapons.
Perhaps there was suppose to be a meeting with rebels or one of their cut outs (to use a spy term)
But wouldn’t a meeting happen somewhere else??????????? Unless he was lured there so they could make a statement against the facility.
Why not take him hostage like William F Buckley???
Or, did a traitor in the US set this up with a handy film to blame. They sure jumped on that film .
I think they took Nakoula underground. He was and still may be an asset.
Your post reminded me of something about which I know very little. I wonder how this compares to the Iran-Contra situation. Will there be hearings?