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US spy agencies heard Benghazi attackers using State Dept. cell phones to call terrorist leaders
Fox News ^ | 6/11/2014 | Bret Baier, James Rosen

Posted on 06/11/2014 8:15:15 PM PDT by gwgn02

The terrorists who attacked the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 used cell phones, seized from State Department personnel during the attacks, and U.S. spy agencies overheard them contacting more senior terrorist leaders to report on the success of the operation, multiple sources confirmed to Fox News.

The disclosure is important because it adds to the body of evidence establishing that senior U.S. officials in the Obama administration knew early on that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and not a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video that had gone awry, as the administration claimed for several weeks after the attacks.

Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air Force, served as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft that was used to transport the corpses of the four casualties from the Benghazi attacks – then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – as well as the assault’s survivors from Tripoli to the safety of an American military base in Ramstein, Germany.

In an exclusive interview on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Stahl said members of a CIA-trained Global Response Staff who raced to the scene of the attacks were “confused” by the administration’s repeated implication of the video as a trigger for the attacks, because “they knew during the attack…who was doing the attacking.” Asked how, Stahl told anchor Bret Baier: “Right after they left the consulate in Benghazi and went to the [CIA] safehouse, they were getting reports that cell phones, consulate cell phones, were being used to make calls to the attackers' higher ups.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; clinton; obama; scandal
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1 posted on 06/11/2014 8:15:15 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: gwgn02

Video in link.


2 posted on 06/11/2014 8:19:28 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: gwgn02
Now that is an interesting wrinkle. I wonder what other information will start coming out now. Maybe the main stream media will even start investigating.
3 posted on 06/11/2014 8:19:37 PM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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” were being used to make calls to the attackers’ higher ups.”

SO... the CIA knows who these higher ups are.


4 posted on 06/11/2014 8:27:18 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Robert357

Don’t count on it. The main story on ABC News Radio today was how many Americans are overweight.


5 posted on 06/11/2014 8:28:08 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Robert357
Maybe the main stream media will even start investigating.

Only if it trends on twitter.

6 posted on 06/11/2014 8:28:50 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: gwgn02

NJCT


7 posted on 06/11/2014 8:32:34 PM PDT by autumnraine
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"Stahl also contended that given his crew’s alert status and location, they could have reached Benghazi in time to have played a role in rescuing the victims of the assault, and ferrying them to safety in Germany, had they been asked to do so. 'We were on a 45-day deployment to Ramstein air base,' he told Fox News. 'And we were there basically to pick up priority missions, last-minute missions that needed to be accomplished.'

'You would've thought that we would have had a little bit more of an alert posture on 9/11,' Stahl added. 'A hurried-up timeline probably would take us [an] hour-and-a-half to get off the ground and three hours and fifteen minutes to get down there. So we could've gone down there and gotten them easily.'”

To me, this is a smoking gun! Proof there WERE resources available to rescue, if not Stevens, at least the other three men who died at the Consulate.

8 posted on 06/11/2014 8:33:00 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: null and void

NJCT


9 posted on 06/11/2014 8:33:04 PM PDT by autumnraine
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Almost lost at the end of the report.....

Stahl also contended that given his crew’s alert status and location, they could have reached Benghazi in time to have played a role in rescuing the victims of the assault, and ferrying them to safety in Germany, had they been asked to do so. “We were on a 45-day deployment to Ramstein air base,” he told Fox News. “And we were there basically to pick up priority missions, last-minute missions that needed to be accomplished.”

“You would've thought that we would have had a little bit more of an alert posture on 9/11,” Stahl added. “A hurried-up timeline probably would take us [an] hour-and-a-half to get off the ground and three hours and fifteen minutes to get down there. So we could've gone down there and gotten them easily.”

10 posted on 06/11/2014 8:33:04 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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You can be sure that the alphabet news, weekly magazines and e-zines have circulated a memo to their new swriters that this topic has been determined to be haram. Ḥarām (Arabic: حَرَام‎ ḥarām) or Haraam is an Arabic term meaning sinful. In Islamic Jurisprudence, haram is used to refer to any act that is forbidden by Allah
11 posted on 06/11/2014 8:34:08 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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bttt


12 posted on 06/11/2014 8:34:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Robert357
start investigating?

IIRC, CNN has reporters on the ground the day after -- who were probably more interested in covering up anything that might taint the Administration. The FBI didn't get there for 2 weeks -- because the situation was deemed too dangerous.
13 posted on 06/11/2014 8:34:34 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: gwgn02

Probably obama phones they picked up when on welfare in Dearborn.


14 posted on 06/11/2014 8:38:26 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Bryan24; milagro

Major Stahl also says at the end of the interview that they had requested a C-130 be on standby at the airport(Tripoli?) a month prior to 9/11.


15 posted on 06/11/2014 8:42:42 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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To: UCANSEE2

In the interview, Major Stahl also says that the guys on the ground knew that there was a living security guard at Benghazi who was on the take and had given information about escape routes, the safe house(room), etc. to the attackers.


16 posted on 06/11/2014 8:45:03 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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To: gwgn02

Interesting interview - also heard that a request was made one month prior to the attack to have a plane standing by during the period for possible evacuation, but it was “denied” - by whom, for why not explained - maybe Gowdy can find out....


17 posted on 06/11/2014 8:47:26 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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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.


18 posted on 06/11/2014 9:23:02 PM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: gwgn02

Perhaps they were calling for movie reviews.


19 posted on 06/11/2014 9:27:33 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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Not only that but at or near the end of this powerful interview, Major Stahl said that the Ambassador and others had asked to have a C-130 on standby for the anniversary of 9/11 one YEAR earlier!
20 posted on 06/11/2014 9:44:18 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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