1. From the UKTelegraph (and not the American Media Maggots, notedly):
CIA ‘running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked’
The CIA has been subjecting operatives to monthly polygraph tests in an attempt to suppress details of a US arms smuggling operation in Benghazi that was ongoing when its ambassador was killed by a mob in the city last year, according to reports.
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.
Sources said that more Americans were hurt in the assault spearheaded by suspected Islamic radicals than had been previously reported. CIA chiefs were actively working to ensure the real nature of its operations in the city did not get out.
So only the losses suffered by the State Department in the city had been reported to Congress.
Does this shock and surprise? The State Department — under Hillary Clinton — lying to Congress?
2. Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack
From CNN’s Jake Tapper:
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.
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.
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.
So: more clandestine gun-running on behalf of the loving, understanding, kinder, gentler, more sensitive and certainly more transparent Obama Administration?
Facts in evidence.
And no, I’m not dropping the topic.
BZ
Regarding Hillary, she probably didn’t know much about what the CIA was doing anywhere. She has her own little world, don’t you know? Why would the CIA tell that loose cannon anything?
President Disengaged probably didn’t know either. He has “People” to handle messy details like that and cover for him when his incompetence is exposed.
Over and over we see that a vacuum at the top leadership level leads to the troops running their own show as they see fit. Good or bad? Depends on your point of view.
Keep hammering, BZ. The people running scared are a trifecta; venal, incompetent, and disengaged.
I think I’ll have to disagree with you on this one, WSF. I think Hillary is a LOT more plugged in than you might believe. She’s everything BUT stupid and I’ll wager not only more politically savvy than Obama, but possesses a greater base intelligence.
I don’t think anybody pulls the wool over her eyes. If she can have a “pretend” marriage to Horn Dog because she’s only in it for the Power, that bespeaks volumes about her goals: money and, more than that, to WIELD Power.
You don’t get Power by being uninformed.
His first day at work Obama said: “What the fuck? I didn’t know that,” when his initial PDB unfolded.
Hillary’s first day at work, she said: “What the fuck? I’ll kick somebody’s ass because they didn’t tell me that.”
BZ
You may be right about Hillary. She is not dumb. She is a bitch who treated the White House staff and Secret Service agents horribly.