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CIA officer confirmed no protests before misleading Benghazi account given
The Washington Times ^ | March 31, 2014 | Guy Taylor

Posted on 03/31/2014 8:04:12 PM PDT by Cheerio

Before the Obama administration gave an inaccurate narrative on national television that the Benghazi attacks grew from an anti-American protest, the CIA’s station chief in Libya pointedly told his superiors in Washington that no such demonstration occurred, documents and interviews with current and former intelligence officials show.

The attack was “not an escalation of protests,” the station chief wrote to then-Deputy CIA Director Michael J. Morell in an email dated Sept. 15, 2012 — a full day before the White House sent Susan E. Rice to several Sunday talk shows to disseminate talking points claiming that the Benghazi attack began as a protest over an anti-Islam video.

That the talking points used by Mrs. Rice, who was then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, were written by a CIA that ignored the assessment by its own station chief inside Libya, has emerged as one of the major bones of contention in the more than two years of political fireworks and congressional investigations into the Benghazi attack.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: benghazi; clinton; obama
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1 posted on 03/31/2014 8:04:13 PM PDT by Cheerio
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To: Cheerio
The attack was “not an escalation of protests,” the station chief wrote to then-Deputy CIA Director Michael J. Morell in an email dated Sept. 15, 2012 — a full day before the White House sent Susan E. Rice to several Sunday talk shows to disseminate talking points claiming that the Benghazi attack began as a protest over an anti-Islam video.

Bump for the truth.

2 posted on 03/31/2014 8:06:37 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Nachum

Ping.


3 posted on 03/31/2014 8:10:35 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Cheerio

Yahbut, Bammy, H! and Rice protested before they gave their analysis of the causes.


4 posted on 03/31/2014 8:12:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Liars.


5 posted on 03/31/2014 8:12:53 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Cheerio

wow this doesnt agree with the accounts by MRS CLINTON...


6 posted on 03/31/2014 8:17:45 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

Thanks Army Air Corps

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Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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7 posted on 03/31/2014 8:18:34 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Army Air Corps

I really would like to see a lot of these polidiots in prison. Not “Club Fed” but prison ...... Their little presstitute toadies as well.

What they did and didn’t do was criminal IMO.


8 posted on 03/31/2014 8:19:16 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

I agree wholeheartedly, sir.


9 posted on 03/31/2014 8:29:24 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Cheerio

They had to lie and say it was a protest over a video. They couldn’t have people knowing what the truth really was right before the election. And guess what? It worked, the simpletons still ran right out and re-elected the moron.

At this point the regime doesn’t care at all about Benghazi. They got to stay in the white house and finish destroying America. Mission accomplished! And remember they wanted to promote Susan Rice to a cabinet position shortly after her lie tour on the talk shows. It was her payoff for being a good little minion. I’m sure that deal was made with her before she went out to lie and carry water for the regime.

One would think the republicans should be smart enough to connect all of these dots. But do they really want to?


10 posted on 03/31/2014 8:30:37 PM PDT by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: Cheerio

Lies. The trademark of the Obama administration.


11 posted on 03/31/2014 8:33:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Cheerio

Hillary freaking ADVERTIZED on Pakistani television, specifically in order to PROVOKE AND GENERATE the kind of outraged protesting they’d later swear had preceeded the attack.

She was going to give them COVER.

They phoned five Los Angeles film crews, then rousted from sleep and PARADED a terrified, innocent, scarved FALL-GUY.

THIS IS WAY BIGGER THAN WATERGATE.

NO ONE PUNISHED...?!?!?!?!?!

The NEW AND IMPROVED USA:

LAWS ARE FOR THE **LITTLE PEOPLE**.


12 posted on 03/31/2014 8:36:14 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Cheerio

Impeach his ass .....100%


13 posted on 03/31/2014 8:36:35 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Bullish
They had to lie and say it was a protest over a video. They couldn’t have people knowing what the truth really was right before the election.
. . . and that meant lying to the face of the father of a dead hero. Didn’t it, Hillary?
And guess what? It worked, the simpletons still ran right out and re-elected the moron.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments

14 posted on 03/31/2014 8:40:08 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Impeach his ass .....100%

I am sooo glad you didn't say "Impeach the ass" cause just trying to squeeze moochelle thru the metal detector at the courthouse would be an obstruction of just a$$.

15 posted on 03/31/2014 8:41:13 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: Cheerio

Turns my stomach thinking of the families.


16 posted on 03/31/2014 8:41:46 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: gaijin

Why no heavy defensive weapons at Bengazi? Cuz the plan worked out AHEAD OF TIME relied on swift and accurate support by US aircraft.

The SEALs lasing from the vulnerable rooftop were FOLLOWING THE PLAN.

They trusted and BELIEVED their superiors. They were true to their creed.

How likely is it that folks on the radio were re-assuring them that US aircraft were inbound, just minutes away?

It is virtually certain.

THOUSANDS of people behind the scenes were moving heaven and earth for those men, but the SMALLEST and most important job —namely for the Prez to say the word GO— was heartlessly ignored.

ONE WORD, and it was too much for him.

And NO ONE is being punished.


17 posted on 03/31/2014 8:42:57 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Cheerio

One thing to be clear on, when reading articles on this subject, is that there are TWO CIAs.

One is the mainstream CIA.

The other is the State Department’s CIA.


18 posted on 03/31/2014 8:42:58 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Perhaps she was too busy dodging sniper fire?


19 posted on 03/31/2014 8:48:21 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: UCANSEE2

One that ‘flies under the radar’ for Congressional approval to ‘go to war’?


20 posted on 03/31/2014 8:49:38 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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