I’ve got a few minutes:
It’s nothing revolutionary, my other comments. I have no new information, just like everyone else not having been there (CIA and State Dept. employees).
Congress seems to have dropped the ball on this. I lost track of where the committee was on subpoenas for the State employees that were hushed. Most of what I have are questions and speculation that few are asking:
Such as: Does Benghazi have any hallmarks of past clandestine operations, ala ‘Iran/Contra’? Well, yes it does, imho. This ship is but one indicator
As well, with Turkey’s role in Syrian false flag attacks now exposed, an honest person must ask: How convenient is it that the attack began ‘after’ the Turkish ambassador left? Was the meeting for some nefarious purpose? Perhaps to elicit a stronger US response against Assad? If every option is a possibility, what would Turkey have to gain from Libyan forces attacking the Benghazi compound? Why was the Turkish Ambassador made to travel to that pit of an area, Benghazi, widely reported to be overrun with rebels of varying factions? What was so ‘urgent’ or, for that matter, ‘secret’ that Tripoli wouldn’t do?
I don’t believe the attackers were to attack the Benghazi compound itself...OR the CIA: They were to attack Stevens. Whether this was a kidnapping gone wrong or not, I think he was the target all along and the site of the attack was shifted when it was revealed he was to travel to Benghazi from Tripoli, an unannounced/unscheduled trip. This, in part, explains why the Benghazi attack was ‘late’, compared to the Cairo attack.
We’ve been led to believe Benghazi was a front for funneling weapons to the Syrian rebels.
But that theory only ‘supports’ the Turkish position. Again, what was the meeting in the middle of the desert, rather than the embassy in Tripoli, really about? Only the Turkish ambassador, Ambassador Stevens and the CIA know for sure. It’s a fact that Turkey is embroiled in its own scandals and their own press has been critical of the provocations of Assad. I, for one, don’t yet understand why Turkey thinks a rebel-held Syria is better security than an Assad-controlled Syria, but I don’t have the time right now to expend on this.
I will write this: I have to wonder...if Turkey didn’t stage the attack on Benghazi (for whatever reasons), perhaps the Ambassador was there to warn Stevens, having been stonewalled by State Dept. Perhaps he was there to demand an increase in American assistance to the anti-Assad forces. Perhaps Ambassador Akin was ‘just lucky’ that their meeting ended on such a timely note. We do know that the compound was under surveillance...maybe the Libyans were ‘just mad’ that the Americans/CIA were shipping their weapons out of the country and maybe they weren’t getting ‘their fair share’. Maybe this is just a ‘turf war’ over gun-running and the CIA ended up butting heads with the Muslim Brotherhood over ‘their turf’ (North Africa) and the CIA ‘blinked’ (no help from a eunuch POtuS). Maybe Ambassador Akin didn’t get his ‘payola’ for permitting the shipments to layover in Turkish ports. Perhaps AQ is much more aligned within Turkey than is being made public, possibly explaining many mysteries the past couple of years. Who knows at this point.
I also have to wonder if this isn’t much, much bigger than most realize...as the facts, and the subterfuge, seem to fit that premise....
To twist the knot differently, could this (just possibly) be a complex plot that was intended to besmirch Hillary Clinton to permanently taint her and open up the 2016 POTUS race to a ‘different’ benefactor, much as the Puppet was put into play (recall the convenient scandal that gave rise to Sen. Puppet)? Having blown up in the Puppet’s face when Stevens et al were killed in the attack? Forcing everyone onto the same CYA page?
Hey...much like MH370, when the facts are few, the possibilities are endless….
Or perhaps it was all just coincidence, rotten security planning by State/CIA, and absolutely lousy timing on the part of the attackers, in terms of possibly exposing Bama’s ‘Syria-arms’ which had the unfortunate irony of being diametrically opposed to US policy for a decade (arming AQ) with less than 60 days to a major election... And was all the theater, cover-ups & malfeasance in the wake of the Benghazi Terror Murders just simply bumbling incompetence on the part of State, CIA and the WH collectively?
I’m inclined to believe the simplest answer is NOT the latter...the whole affair REEKS of an ‘Op’.
Preaching to the choir on the latter, I realize. Just a closure to a rambling series of opinions after a 14 hour day...
This is one of the best analysis have seen logi_cal869. Pertinent questions all. Pertinent analysis all. Well done and Thank You.