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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.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: benghazi; clinton; obama
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To: Army Air Corps; Squantos

As do I.


21 posted on 03/31/2014 10:06:37 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Cheerio
Before the Obama administration said the Benghazi attacks grew from an anti-American protest, the CIA’s station chief in Libya said no such demonstration occurred

What difference does it make?

22 posted on 03/31/2014 10:08:59 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Cheerio

Hush up about this. Karl Rove and his groupies dont want any harsh criticism of this regime/s


23 posted on 03/31/2014 10:15:47 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Cheerio

Hillary prating that video story to the relatives of the dead in front of the caskets of the slain should be shown nightly on television


24 posted on 04/01/2014 3:35:33 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Bullish
I would love to see a commercial that shows the Benghazi attack, Amb. Stevens being dragged out of the embassy and throughout the street, Clinton saying what difference does it make and then a collage of Obama and Moochie vacations.
25 posted on 04/01/2014 3:51:52 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Cheerio

I will always believe Benghazi was an attempted abduction of Chris Stevens in order to make a trade.
The security was weakened on purpose by Ms Clinton prior to the incident.

When the attack happened, the WH thought it was just the kidnap plot playing out not realizing that the abductors had been replaced with terrorists. So, they let it happen because either way, the traitorous act of the regime would have been exposed.

This theory makes sense of the facts we know.


26 posted on 04/01/2014 4:08:54 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Cheerio

Hillary 2016. Are you ready?


27 posted on 04/01/2014 6:01:39 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: gaijin
Welcome to the USSA
28 posted on 04/01/2014 6:45:13 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio
That the talking points used by Mrs. Rice... were written by a CIA that ignored the assessment by its own station chief inside Libya....

I suspect there's more good people in the CIA than bad people - but the bad people are in charge - put there by Obama... and Clinton some years back... I pray the good people stay at their jobs and wait out this time...

29 posted on 04/01/2014 7:40:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2012/12/12/u-s-physicist-tom-fife-obama-was-groomed-to-be-president-)
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To: Cheerio; All

Is anyone else having major problems of late viewing anything on washingtontimes.com?

Even in different browsers the website is completely unusable for me. It’s not my pc, as it’s on multiple platforms, too.

Just curious...seems to have gotten worse sometime in the past 6 months with multiple long-running scripts.

I haven’t tried ‘all’ my browsers, but it affects IE & Mozilla-written browsers both.


30 posted on 04/01/2014 8:15:31 AM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: logi_cal869
No not having problems with Washington Times - I am using IE 10, build 10.0.9200.16844.

I installed this PC with Win 7 Pro in Jan and had a ton of trouble getting gadgets to work and eventually discovered the problem related to IE 11 if using anything other than 100% zoom. So I reverted back to IE 10 and all is fine.
31 posted on 04/01/2014 8:25:23 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

Thanks for getting back to me.

I reverted back to IE10 as well. I had forgotten about the zoom problem, so that was helpful. However, no difference.

I’m convinced it’s my video card/drivers (other minor symptoms as well).

Thanks! It’s helpful to narrow down problems.


32 posted on 04/01/2014 9:00:22 AM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: Cheerio

CIA CYA...


33 posted on 04/01/2014 9:47:56 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: liberalh8ter

I’m with you on that.


34 posted on 04/01/2014 10:46:20 AM PDT by kitkat (BUMP)
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To: Cheerio

If they had given the ‘movie protest’ lie to our congresscritters behind closed doors they would have bought the lie.

Now they’re going to have to come up with new lies... but democrats are creative liars and the people won’t be able to debunk the new crap...

Wish it was like the old days when we had a free press...


35 posted on 04/01/2014 10:49:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2012/12/12/u-s-physicist-tom-fife-obama-was-groomed-to-be-president-)
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...

Benghazi ping.

Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.


36 posted on 04/01/2014 11:39:50 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: Republicanprofessor
Thanx for the ping.

Sister needs her sugar
To get her through the day
She doesn't have the money
But always got a way to pay
It's 2:07; it's time to sell some Ghetto Heaven...




37 posted on 04/01/2014 11:47:01 AM PDT by rdb3 (Get out the putter, this one's on the green.)
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To: dragnet2
What difference does it make?

That phrase was actually uttered today, by Rupersberger. I kid you not.

38 posted on 04/02/2014 11:11:42 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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