Posted on 04/02/2014 12:20:44 PM PDT by don-o
During a Congressional hearing that lasted more than three hours, former C.I.A. Deputy Director Michael Morell praised his former agency’s intelligence analysts as the best on the globe, yet ones who he admits were sorely mistaken when they reported that spontaneous protesters were to blame for the Beghazi, Libya terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2012.
“As you now know, subsequent information revealed their judgment to be incorrect [but]…that is where the best available information led them at the time, not because of politics,” Morell testified before the House Intelligence Committee today.
More Benghazi Coverage
When Morell’s own C.I.A. station chief in Tripoli, Libya sent evidence that the Benghazi attacks were not the outgrowth of protests over a YouTube video, he says he and his Washington analysts disregarded it and didn’t pass it along to other agencies.
Morell was called to testify after several Republican member of Congress alleged new evidence shows he misled them by withholding what he knew about the genesis of the government’s so-called talking points after the attacks. It turns out that Morell was a key player in editing the talking points and interfacing with the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...
There are links on her site for all the reporting that Sharyl has done on Benghazi.
It wasn’t political. Trust me. We ignored the station chief because we knew better. Even though it turns out we didn’t. We’re the best in the world.
Morrell is an Obama lackey. If I was a congressman I’d ask “Exactly what does Obama have on you?”
Of course, republicans can’t even come up with any decent questions. Morrell left doors wide open and not one republican walked through.
Morell = mushroom
Hey, Sharyl as you know they are all lying to us for political reasons. Facts mean nothing when they can get away with lying under OATH!
As a one time head of an agency who’s only purpose is to lie without admitting to lying and a member of the mac daddy agency that is unable to ever tell the truth would i lie to the American people?
“spontaneous protestors”
Seven hours of “constant, consistent (fighting)” with mortar blasts and automatic weapons fire directed at desperate US personnel ...
the CIA must have concluded after a few frantic communications from the annex that the spontaneous protestors were on their way to a wedding, but got sidetracked, so no big deal—what difference does it make?
Like Obama’s excuses, I don’t know what’s most disturbing:
the irresponsibility, incompetence or brass-bound mendacity.
She actually lays it all out there in recounting Morell’s various and changing statements. Lie stacked on top of lie.
He’s stayin alive .. Stayin alive ... Oo oo oo oo stayin aliiiiiii ah ah I’ve PING
The guy is a lying SOB and it galls me that nobody on that committee called him out on his BS. The gloves need to come off with these traitors.
Gosh, this testimony makes want to sneeze.
-—ah..... Bullsh*t!
This guy was bought and paid for, not unlike many others involved with this Administration who know enough to bring it down.
I gave her site a hit. She has also done great work on F&F.
HORse— poo!
He was in 100% coverup mode and Michelle Bachmann ripped him a new one while most of the pubbies and all of the demonRATs treated him with kid gloves.
He had a smirk on his mug, as if to say, yeah, I'm lying, but you can't prove it.
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