Posted on 05/04/2014 5:04:27 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Former Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell is sworn recently by the House Select Intelligence Committee. "The analysts said from the get-go that al-Qaida was involved in (the Benghazi) attack," Morell testified.
Why is Benghazi important to Americans?
You'll hear a lot about Benghazi in coming days and you'll hear the familiar screeching of partisan politics, now that House Speaker John Boehner has decided to convene a select committee to investigate the 2012 terrorist attack in that dusty fly-bitten town in Libya.
If the past is any guide, you'll hear Republican righteous vindictiveness and Democratic mockery and defensiveness. There will be so many politicians jabbering into microphones, so many practiced mouths curled into what is supposed to look like spontaneous anger, that you'll see right through much of it.
And then many of you will be tempted to turn away and tune out. That's to be expected. Some of the politicos are counting on just that. They're betting on it, and you should probably figure that some of the screaming isn't designed to inform but to turn you off to the whole thing.
One of the problems is that many Republicans have used Benghazi as a club. And many Democrats have shrieked that it was all about nothing. So much noise.
So little light, until very recently, when a few previously hidden White House emails were made public and things changed.
But first, remember that four Americans died there in Benghazi: Ambassador Christopher Stevens, U.S. State Department computer specialist Sean Smith and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
They weren't murdered because they were Democrats or Republicans. They were murdered because they were Americans...
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
They died in an operation where the CIA was sending Ghaddafi’s weapons to Al Qaeda in Syria.
We were arming the exact same guys who were shooting at us in Iraq.
That’s the scandal.
Anyone gonna touch it?
I couldn’t read the rest. What does it go on to say?
I said as we were rushing into Libya that it was just going to turn into Fast and Furious North Africa division.
Seems that the first story about American weapons turning up in Gaza was less than 3 weeks later.
Bttt
BTTT
Will there be an honest discussion of the Benghazi Atrocity?
and the planned disinformational coverup?
Will William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee's questions be answered?
Will there be discussion about why the DO"J" has attempted to stop his 11 questions?
They are, for the record:
" 1. Is the United States secretly arming and supporting various factions of the Syrian Rebels
with high caliber impact weapons from The United States arsenals?
"2. Is the United States little known Direct Commercial Sales Program, also known as ʻ‘The Blue Lantern Report”,
being used as a ʻ‘cutoutʼ’ to secretly aid both sides of a Middle Eastern civil war?
"3. Is America again playing both sides against the middle for corporate gain as previously
demonstrated by the Cuban Project of the fifties and sixties, as well as the Iran Contra fiasco of the eighties
and the South American—Mexican Drug Wars of the nineties?
"It has been established via some field reports from the Middle East and some isolated media reports
that the Direct Commercial Sales Program (DCSP) an American international program,
which legally allows the United States to sell weapons to a host of foreign countries without monitoring those weapons after leaving our arsenals, stockpiles,
and jurisdiction, has shipped High Impact weapons to Syrian Rebels during the last two years.
"4. What happens to those weapons after legally being sold via this program and they leave our control?
"Are they being monitored, traced, certified, and inventoried after arriving in other countries?
"5.Will our troops one day again face these American made weapons on some foreign battlefield?
"6. Is this Direct Commercial Sales program a secret cash cow for many US Corporations,
International arms merchants, its insiders, or affiliates?
"7. Is it possible this could be another ‘off-‐ the-‐ booksʼ’ secret covert operation ran
by the CIAʼ’s Special Tactical Unit, similar to the Iran-‐ Contra operations of the eighties and the old Cuban projects of the fifties and sixties,
where we supplied both sides weapons and escalated the conflict for personal and corporate gain?
"8. Could we be selling and supplying dangerous high impact weapons,
while aiding and financing both sides of a Civil War in Syria?
"9. Could we be escalating the Middle East conflict either knowingly or unintentionally providing weapons
to both sides of the Syrian conflict?
"10. Did our Ambassador and others, weeks before they were murdered, notify our State Department
and CIA that Syrian Rebels had obtained US Weapons, including “Stinger missiles’ from Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan,
shipped from CIA safe houses?
"11. Were they told to “Stand Down?"
Will the MSM remain complicit in the 2008 through 2014 coup d'etat
against the USA, its Constitution and People
by the Moslem Brotherhood and al Qaeda?
Is the sky blue? Is water wet?
Trey Gowdy is probably the most likely.
This was in the Chicago Tribune?
Yep. This writer, John Kass, doesn’t seem to play favorites. He’s been a Tribune writer since 1983.
Absolutely!
Nice one!!
Almost a year before the Benghazi consulate attack and the weapons were already on the move.
If that could be proven it would be a criminal conspiracy from start to finish. Anyone involved would be an accomplice to some degree.
They died in an operation where the CIA was sending Ghaddafi’s weapons to Al Qaeda in Syria.
We were arming the exact same guys who were shooting at us in Iraq.
That’s the scandal.
Anyone gonna touch it?
Not if rinos were in on it.
Looks like the weapons were still moving even as the testimony went on in DC. The most recent stories I’ve found were from summer of last year.
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