Ex-Clinton aide didn't write Benghazi memos [but one who did is known to Hillary]

The Hill ^ | June 16, 2015 | Martin Matishak

[Ann Archy]

Do you think Obama was born in Hawaii and that birth certificate was REAL??

[bert]

Rather than a third way for hillary and sid vicious, America needs the end

[Sir_Humphrey]

Horowitz's article from 2000 is more relevant today than it was 15 years ago. Unfortunately it was not picked up on the radar back then. I have little faith that the media, including the conservative media and talk radio, will pick up on this during the campaign.

On a related note, it's a shame that Frontpagemag doesn't allow you to share it's articles on Facebook. The media is not going to deliver stories such as this; the foot soldiers will have to do it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Horowitz KNOWS these people - what they’ve done, what they want, and what they’re willing and capable of doing.

[IMR 4350]

We’re now getting the names of Hillary’s “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”.

Watch what the news media is doing. Without the news media creating the reality for them they are powerless.

Right now the news media is in the process of creating a new and improved version of the “spontaneous” lie for Benghazi.

With this new and improved version the terrorist are supposed to be following what is being discussed on right wing news/blogs and planning their attacks around it.

With Benghazi it is supposed to be the terrorist picked up on the right mocking Obama and comparing him to Peanuts Carter so the terrorist planned an attack to mimic the hostage taking in Iran.

[Chewbarkah]

Gowdy needs to look into Drumheller’s connections to Clinton Foundation entities, the “company” that paid Huma, who hired him to produce or send the Benghazi materials, etc. He was in the selling business, not giving it away, unless the rewards were promises of future jobs (DCIA?), or bearded by book deals.

[IMR 4350]

Zarqawi’s bunch were the ones behind the Nick Berg video that was coordinated with the Dan Rather/CBS news story on Abu Ghraib prison.

Charles Barron let the cat out of the bag the Nick Berg video was supposed to symbolize the plight of the black man in America’s prisons.

Nick Bergs father was a member of International A.N.S.W.E.R., Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, and he also said Nick Berg was the terrorist best friend.

A.N.S.W.E.R.’s involvement explains Charles Barron’s comment tying the war to racism.

Nick Berg also had a connection to at least one of the 9/11 hijackers.

[Fedora]

Thanks. A bit more on Drumheller's activity during Nigergate--in light of this, the question of how long Drumheller has been working with the Clintons should be investigated:

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None of the four CIA representatives who attended the meeting recall picking up copies, but a later internal inspection found copies in the vault of the Counterproliferation Division, where Valerie Plame worked. CIA spokesman Bill Harlow told Seymour Hersh in March 2003 that the CIA did not obtain an actual copy of the forgeries until after the President’s January 2003 State of the Union address. Contradicting this, Vince Cannistraro later told Hersh that the State Department’s Italian embassy had passed the forgeries to the CIA’s Italian station, headed by Jeffrey Castelli, and that the CIA’s Italian station had passed them on to CIA headquarters. Isikoff and Corn obtained additional information on this subject from former CIA European Division chief Tyler Drumheller, who in 2002-2003 was involved in a conflict with other CIA personnel over a controversial informant codenamed Curveball. Drumheller stated that Castelli’s CIA station was advised of the State Department’s meeting with Burba and did receive a copy of her documents, but Castelli was already aware that a phony Niger story was being peddled and he did not take the documents seriously, so they sat in the station’s files and were not passed on to CIA analysts for vetting. If this information is accurate it may shed some light on the forgeries’ circulation at CIA, but it still fails to illuminate how the forgeries got into CPD’s vault. . .

In an April 2005 interview, Cannistraro and radio host Ian Masters indicated that Tyler Drumheller had described the dissenting group as coming from the analytical side of the Agency. Masters asked,

At the time, you were quoted in some articles as saying that you had heard of dissent within the agency and people that were being, sort of, steamrollered by the administration. Give us some sense of what was happening at the time. Having spoken, again, with the key guy in the agency, Tyler Drumheller, he said, he understood that on the analysis side, there were people that actually either were fired or who quit. Not so much on the operations side that he was a part of, but on the analysis side there was some real frustration apparently.

Cannistraro replied,

Well, there was a tremendous amount of pressure on the analysts. . .There was a chilled environment in which to express any kind of opposite opinion. . .Not only that, there wasn’t very much of a receptiveness at the senior levels of the CIA--at George Tenet’s level, for example, because he was a very political director. And he was very concerned about getting along with the administration.

Isikoff and Corn’s book implies that the group of disgruntled analysts Masters and Drumheller refer to included Middle Eastern analyst Paul Pillar, who was assigned to work on an October 2002 CIA white paper on Iraq’s WMD:

Afterward, Pillar was embarrassed by the white paper. . .

Pillar was operating under his own set of pressures. Shortly before the Bush administration began, he had published a book on terrorism that concluded that the major threat came from freelance groups operating independently of any governments, like al-Qaeda. This had been the CIA’s long-standing position on the issue. But it was a direct challenge to the thinking of neoconservatives like Laurie Mylroie, who believed that state-sponsored terrorism (meaning Saddam-sponsored terrorism) was the real problem. For administration hard-liners, Pillar was already suspect, a charter member of an imagined CIA cabal hostile to the president’s agenda.

Pillar himself inadvertently sharpened the conflict a few weeks after the president’s 2002 State of the Union speech highlighting the “Axis of Evil.” He had been invited to speak at a class at the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies. He suggested the president, in his speech, should have been a “little clearer” about the distinction between terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. There was, he said, no evidence that the Iraqi government had shared such weapons with terrorists--and no evidence that Iraq had supported any terrorist acts since 1993. . .Pillar suddenly found his job on the line and, he said, later heard that Paul Wolfowitz wanted him fired.

In 2004, Pillar would be accused of leaking classified information to the New York Times. He resigned from CIA in 2005. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity member Ray McGovern, a vocal supporter of Joseph and Valerie Wilson, has spoken of Pillar as “my former colleague”.

--Plamegate: 25 Lingering Questions

[piasa]

Thanks

[piasa]

Thanks for the reminder