CIA 'running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked'

[Ichingcarpenter]

Up to 35 CIA operatives were working in the city during the attack last September on the US consulate that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, according to CNN.

The circumstances of the attack are a subject of deep division in the US with some Congressional leaders pressing for a wide-ranging investigation into suspicions that the government has withheld details of its activities in the Libyan city.

The television network said that a CIA team was working in an annex near the consulate on a project to supply missiles from Libyan armouries to Syrian rebels.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/10218288/CIA-running-arms-smuggling-team-in-Benghazi-when-consulate-was-attacked.html

The CIA has never been known for intelligence which is their job.

At least they weren't running drugs this time.

[dballance]

1. The CIA frequently uses the State Dept. and USAID as covers.

It's not a secret that the CIA has operatives in the State Dept. (and everywhere else in government). It's not a secret that USAID, which is controlled by State, uses its billions of dollars in aid to effect the outcomes the US wants in countries we want to control. Many of our "diplomats" in South and Central America have been expelled for this reason.

[Scuba]

2. I'd rather they ran drugs than arms.

[kentuck]

3. I suspected that all along...

And I'm sure many of the Repubs that were screaming about Benghazi knew it was a CIA operation.

[Dawson Leery]

12. +1,000,000,000,000

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. Kick. This whole GOP Benghazi mania has obscured what was really going on.

Early arms shipments to Syria?

[Initech]

6. Yup it's just the Fox Opinion Channel stirring up the crazies again.

Feeding them into a frenzy while the real criminals (CIA) are getting away with some truly horrific stuff. The billion dollar military industrial complex profiteers want more war in the middle east.

[Berlum]

7. Republican smoke screen

to protect their massive fail + their boy-O Petraeus (R - Family Values)

[NightWatcher]

5. The drugs are where they get the cash to buy and move arms

[mick063]

8. I believe this to be true

And it doesn't add anything to the culpability of the Department of State.

Consider the sniff test.

Why would an American Ambassador be conducting Dept. of State business, with a Turkish ambassador, in Libya, of all places?

In the bigger scheme of things......so what?

We were arming rebels in the midst of civilian slaughter. Go ahead and admit it.

Go ahead and admit that the ambassador died "in combat", as a soldier, because of a Syrian affiliate's strategic mission, as opposed to the drummed up nonsense about lax security at a diplomatic "consulate" and the Dept. of State's inability to "save" them from a "terrorist" attack.

[Hydra]

9. As the CIA itself said:

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false." William J. Casey

[Octafish]

10. Wonder if there was a double-cross, like in Afghanistan?

There, a trusted CIA contact turned around and shot everyone.

Perhaps in Benghazi, one of the parties used their business together to set up the Ambassador his team.

Don't have a link...just wondering.

[leveymg]

11. Definitely more blow-back from another covert op arming "our"terrorists. So, was WTC '93 and 9/11

As was Boston, in its own way. So often, "our" double-agents aren't.

Nothing ever gets learned, because all of this is acceptable "collateral damage" for the true believers in the spook world for whom the secret twilight war against the Russians and their allies never, ever end.

[dipsydoodle]

13. Kick.

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