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Report: Benghazi Guards Hired By State Department Were Unvetted, Belonged to Al Qaeda
Townhall ^ | Nov 07, 2016 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 11/07/2016 1:10:57 PM PST by detective

According to a new report from Fox News correspondents Adam Housley and Malia Zimmerman, guards hired through a contractor by the State Department to protect the U.S. consulate in Benghazi were unvetted, local militia members who belonged to terrorist groups Al Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia.   An obscure private firm hired by the State Department over internal objections to protect U.S. diplomats in Benghazi just months before the American ambassador and three others were killed was staffed with hastily recruited locals with terror ties who helped carry out the attack, multiple sources told Fox News.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; ansaralsharia; benghazi; benghazicoverup; benghazisecurity; bluemountain; clinton; corruption; coverup; elections; highcrimes; hillary; hillarybenghazi; incompetence; negligence; obstruction; perjury; treason; trumpwasright; wales
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"I am stunned that the State Department was relying on [locals] with extremist ties to protect American diplomats,” U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, told Fox News. “That doesn’t make any sense. How does that happen?”"

"It is believed the guards not only turned on those they were supposed to be protecting, but helped plan the September 11, 2012 attack."

Incompetence or treason by Secretary of state Clinton?

1 posted on 11/07/2016 1:10:57 PM PST by detective
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BTTT


2 posted on 11/07/2016 1:15:19 PM PST by ssfromla
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To: detective
Neither. The whole operation was shady from top to bottom.

I have sympathy for the families of those who lost their lives, but let's be brutally honest here -- anyone who goes to a war zone and puts their lives in the hands of a government as f#%&ed up and corrupt as ours is really taking a huge risk.

The U.S. Marines serve as guards at U.S. embassies. This guy Stevens wasn't at the embassy. He was at a consulate in another city, under the protection of private security contractors. This story had warning flags all over it from Day 1.

3 posted on 11/07/2016 1:15:40 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Alberta's Child

Like it will have any effect on miss untouchable.


4 posted on 11/07/2016 1:16:25 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: detective
Incompetence or treason by Secretary of state Clinton?

Treason.

5 posted on 11/07/2016 1:16:47 PM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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She wears a dog collar and a leash just like the rest of them. She wasn’t in charge of anything. She’s been working for the same people they were.


6 posted on 11/07/2016 1:19:12 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: detective

Organization theory says that if the person at the top is crazy then the organization will behave in the same way all the way to the bottom. For crazy you can substitute almost any descriptive word. This is why it is critical to hire qualified people always. Eventually, they may end up running the organization.

My personal experience with the couple of retired State people is that they were incompetent.


7 posted on 11/07/2016 1:19:19 PM PST by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: detective

This is incredible, but it explains so many things. HRC is reflexively CYA. She was very anxious to blame it on the video and a spontaneous protest. If people realize it was an inside job, then she is responsible for it all. That explains the crazy lies about the video and why Patrick Kennedy wanted to get this email deep-sixed in exchange for giving the FBI some goodies.


8 posted on 11/07/2016 1:19:58 PM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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“...local militia members who belonged to terrorist groups Al Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia”

Oh, please. They are leaving out the most important part...

“...local militia members who belonged to terrorist groups Al Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia WHO WERE UPSET ABOUT A VIDEO FROM AN UNKNOWN CHEESY FILM MAKER.”


9 posted on 11/07/2016 1:20:54 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Alberta's Child

I am not sure we knew, at the time of Benghazi, just much corruption there is in our government. I am going to give the benefit of doubt to those who were there representing the U.S., that they sincerely felt they were serving patriotic interests. They were betrayed by Hillary Clinton, the Dept of State, and Barack 0bama, possibly a few or dozens of others.

Yes, we do now know about the corruption and ulterior motives, and your warning is quite valid today.


10 posted on 11/07/2016 1:21:33 PM PST by NEMDF
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This makes me think Ambassador Stevens wasn't murdered due to callous uncaring or incompetence on the part of HRC.

It was intentional.

It was an assassination.

I wonder what he knew that required that he be silenced.
11 posted on 11/07/2016 1:24:37 PM PST by JamesP81
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To: detective

Mohammed & Sons Security Inc.

Serving Libya since 2008.


12 posted on 11/07/2016 1:26:44 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: detective

13 posted on 11/07/2016 1:27:39 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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“Neither. The whole operation was shady from top to bottom.”

That is a dishonest attack on the patriotic Americans who were abandoned and left to be killed.

The corruption and treason came from the top.

Clinton clearly was guilty of at the very least dereliction of duty and more probably treason.

14 posted on 11/07/2016 1:29:30 PM PST by detective
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I was of the opinion, day one, that the entire Benghazi Attack was a setup by the Obama admin through Hillary at the State Dept meant to transfer intel, weapons and money to the enemy.

Intel that was made available for the taking at the consulate. The weapons that to be shipped. Those weapons weren’t at the consulate, but the info on where they were stored was. And Stevens was meant to be taken alive so that he could be sold back to the US for millions of dollars to be used to further the war against the US.


15 posted on 11/07/2016 1:29:43 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: detective
Hillary hired Al Qaeda.

What could possibly go wrong?


16 posted on 11/07/2016 1:33:27 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Corrupt, Lies, Cheats, Criminal, Establishment, Scandal, Status Quo, Illegal, 0bamacare, Dangerous)
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“I was of the opinion, day one, that the entire Benghazi Attack was a setup by the Obama admin through Hillary at the State Dept meant to transfer intel, weapons and money to the enemy.

Intel that was made available for the taking at the consulate. The weapons that to be shipped. Those weapons weren’t at the consulate, but the info on where they were stored was. And Stevens was meant to be taken alive so that he could be sold back to the US for millions of dollars to be used to further the war against the US.”

Al Qaeda and the other terrorists were funded and supported by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.

Look at the donations to the Clinton foundation to those entities. Look at Abedin’s connection to the Muslim Brotherhood.

I believe Clinton was involved and deliberately betrayed our country and the Americans who were killed.

17 posted on 11/07/2016 1:33:34 PM PST by detective
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To: Fiddlstix

Thanks.


18 posted on 11/07/2016 1:34:10 PM PST by detective
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To: Uncle Miltie

Hillary hired Al Qaeda. What could possibly go wrong? ...................... I’m sure they had good resumes. The attackers said; “Don’t shoot. don’t shoot, Dr Mursi sent us.” Hillary and Obama were palsy walsy with Mursi, so what could go wrong, what was there that Mursi would want? Only one thing I can think of. (Stevens 4 Rahman)


19 posted on 11/07/2016 1:39:31 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (???? It dissappeared.)
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the incompetence of the GOP....they had her on the stand for 11 hours- how did they not have this info?


20 posted on 11/07/2016 1:40:36 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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