Benghazi Will Screw Obama, Which He Deserves

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100933170

Need to make sure no untimely interruptions happen on ones birthday. Last time was bad enough when all thoughts were on Vegas.

[Wezil]

So when does the screwing start?

I'm getting impatient with the wait.

[The Mad Monk]

At least they're paying attention this time.

[PLATO]

Kerry > Clinton ?????

[Sava]

Obama is just issuing fake terror alerts now to justify taking away our guns.

[Dinner]

So has sloww realized he's barking up the wrong tree yet or is he still in Fox Noise induced haze of denial?

[The Mad Monk]

Actually, CNN is now getting in on it.

05:00 PM ET
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack

CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack.

Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault by armed militants last September 11 in eastern Libya.

Programming note: Was there a political cover up surrounding the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans? Watch a CNN special investigation — The Truth About Benghazi, Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET.

Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret.

CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency's Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.

Read: Analysis: CIA role in Benghazi underreported

Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency's missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency's workings.

The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress.

It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career.

In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, "You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well."

Another says, "You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation."

"Agency employees typically are polygraphed every three to four years. Never more than that," said former CIA operative and CNN analyst Robert Baer.

In other words, the rate of the kind of polygraphs alleged by sources is rare.

"If somebody is being polygraphed every month, or every two months it's called an issue polygraph, and that means that the polygraph division suspects something, or they're looking for something, or they're on a fishing expedition. But it's absolutely not routine at all to be polygraphed monthly, or bi-monthly," said Baer.

CIA spokesman Dean Boyd asserted in a statement that the agency has been open with Congress.

"The CIA has worked closely with its oversight committees to provide them with an extraordinary amount of information related to the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi," the statement said.

"CIA employees are always free to speak to Congress if they want," the statement continued. "The CIA enabled all officers involved in Benghazi the opportunity to meet with Congress. We are not aware of any CIA employee who has experienced retaliation, including any non-routine security procedures, or who has been prevented from sharing a concern with Congress about the Benghazi incident."

Among the many secrets still yet to be told about the Benghazi mission, is just how many Americans were there the night of the attack.

A source now tells CNN that number was 35, with as many as seven wounded, some seriously.

While it is still not known how many of them were CIA, a source tells CNN that 21 Americans were working in the building known as the annex, believed to be run by the agency.

The lack of information and pressure to silence CIA operatives is disturbing to U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, whose district includes CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

"I think it is a form of a cover-up, and I think it's an attempt to push it under the rug, and I think the American people are feeling the same way," said the Republican.

"We should have the people who were on the scene come in, testify under oath, do it publicly, and lay it out. And there really isn't any national security issue involved with regards to that," he said.

Wolf has repeatedly gone to the House floor, asking for a select committee to be set-up, a Watergate-style probe involving several intelligence committee investigators assigned to get to the bottom of the failures that took place in Benghazi, and find out just what the State Department and CIA were doing there.

More than 150 fellow Republican members of Congress have signed his request, and just this week eight Republicans sent a letter to the new head of the FBI, James Comey, asking that he brief Congress within 30 days.

Read: White House releases 100 pages of Benghazi e-mails

In the aftermath of the attack, Wolf said he was contacted by people closely tied with CIA operatives and contractors who wanted to talk.

Then suddenly, there was silence.

"Initially they were not afraid to come forward. They wanted the opportunity, and they wanted to be subpoenaed, because if you're subpoenaed, it sort of protects you, you're forced to come before Congress. Now that's all changed," said Wolf.

Lawmakers also want to about know the weapons in Libya, and what happened to them.

Speculation on Capitol Hill has included the possibility the U.S. agencies operating in Benghazi were secretly helping to move surface-to-air missiles out of Libya, through Turkey, and into the hands of Syrian rebels.

It is clear that two U.S. agencies were operating in Benghazi, one was the State Department, and the other was the CIA.

The State Department told CNN in an e-mail that it was only helping the new Libyan government destroy weapons deemed "damaged, aged or too unsafe retain," and that it was not involved in any transfer of weapons to other countries.

But the State Department also clearly told CNN, they "can't speak for any other agencies."

The CIA would not comment on whether it was involved in the transfer of any weapons.

http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01/exclusive-dozens-of-cia-operatives-on-the-ground-during-benghazi-attack/

[PLATO]

Well...that would certainly explain the reluctance of everyone to get to the bottom of things. Sounds kind of like an Iran-Contra type thing (although with obvious dissimilarities).

Catch the people responsible for killing the Ambassador first is what I am thinking.

[SlowwHand]

So has sloww realized he's barking up the wrong tree yet or is he still in Fox Noise induced haze of denial?

Monk's post certainly ruined your smartass remark. CNN isn't Fox. You just stay in the dark.

[DaShi]

Actually, CNN is now getting in on it.



http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08...nghazi-attack/

Thanks MrFun.

[Dinner]

Monk's post certainly ruined your smartass remark. CNN isn't Fox. You just stay in the dark.

How? "There were 40 year old analyists with in a 50 mile area" doesn't remotely have anything to do with who is combat ready or even knows the embassy is being attacked as the CIA isn't exactly on the same radio frequencies as the state department. You drooling cretin.

Drooling idiot Republicans: "Why didn't the the 40 year old under cover woman with no gun who is pretending to be an aid worker rush in Rambo style to stop a terrorist attack she didn't even know was happening?!!!!?!!!" That's just transparent nonsense just like the whole fake "scandal" has been from the start and if you weren't so stupid you'd know that.

[SlowwHand]

I'm talking about Benghazi (The thread topic. Did you notice at all?), which isn't just the opinion of Fox, stupid.

[DinoDoc]

Actually, CNN is now getting in on it.

If you're going to quote CNN to make a point to Oerdin, this would seem to be the better one to quote? Lawmaker: If CNN can interview suspect in Benghazi attack, why can't FBI?


My question would have been, Why are they still alive?

[PLATO]

If you're going to quote CNN to make a point to Oerdin, this would seem to be the better one to quote? Lawmaker: If CNN can interview suspect in Benghazi attack, why can't FBI?


My question would have been, Why are they still alive?

And thus we come back to the point. Why isn't the FBI at least interviewing these people?

[The Mad Monk]

How? "There were 40 year old analyists with in a 50 mile area" doesn't remotely have anything to do with who is combat ready or even knows the embassy is being attacked as the CIA isn't exactly on the same radio frequencies as the state department. You drooling cretin.

Drooling idiot Republicans: "Why didn't the the 40 year old under cover woman with no gun who is pretending to be an aid worker rush in Rambo style to stop a terrorist attack she didn't even know was happening?!!!!?!!!" That's just transparent nonsense just like the whole fake "scandal" has been from the start and if you weren't so stupid you'd know that.

Apparently they were close enough and involved enough to have seven wounded.