The CIA's detailed Report For Libyan Attack

[ptif219]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The CIA was the real commanding agency at the attacked U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, not the State Department, senior U.S. intelligence officials said.

In addition, two of the four men who died in the Sept. 11 attack -- former Navy SEAL commandos Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty -- were actually CIA contractors killed defending the mission, not State Department contract security officers, as originally publicly identified, the officials told several news organizations on condition of anonymity.

Also killed in the attack were U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith.

The intelligence officials said that within 25 minutes of being alerted to the attack in a desperate phone call, the CIA rushed a half-dozen security operatives to the mission from a secret base about a mile away.


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"Mission" used this way means diplomatic mission .. a consulte or embassy.

The state department is responsible for ambassadors and embassies

[shaarona]

The state department is responsible for ambassadors and embassies

That's true but this seems to be some sort of hybrid.. because the CIA was in charge..

That means guns to me.. but who knows.

[Cigar]

[ptif219]

That's true but this seems to be some sort of hybrid.. because the CIA was in charge..

That means guns to me.. but who knows.

No it means the state department is trying to shift blame for their incompetence

[bladimz]

Obama is unable to simply say that the Americans were not denied aid during the attack. This is perhaps the most (*)(*)(*)(*)ing video ever made of a politician caught in a scandal.

One minute into your video gives you exactly what you had been asking. He told you what he did as soon as he heard of the attacks. He did not say that he didn't deny aid, because for him to say so, would imply that someone else did. The next question would have been "Who then denied that aid?"...and blah, blah, blah

That's not what a president does. His answer was delivered carefully and correctly.

[bladimz]

No details such as how many. No response to the stand down order. Nothing about why a painted target was not hit. Sounds like more government BS to protect Obama till after the election

Hillary and Obama and the state department failed to do their job

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-benghazi.html

Don't you think that there is just a bit of 20/20 hindsight and Monday morning quarterbacking going on here? Lots if shudda-wudda-cuddas? I would guess that in the heat of that attack, there was mis-communications, confusion and panic. This is what causes questions that later morph into conspiracy theories. Cary makes a valid point. Alternative perspectives and additional considerations are just as viable.

[shaarona]

No it means the state department is trying to shift blame for their incompetence

I think you have been listening to too many retired guy tv pundits writing novels on the side.

[ptif219]

Don't you think that there is just a bit of 20/20 hindsight and Monday morning quarterbacking going on here? Lots if shudda-wudda-cuddas? I would guess that in the heat of that attack, there was mis-communications, confusion and panic. This is what causes questions that later morph into conspiracy theories. Cary makes a valid point. Alternative perspectives and additional considerations are just as viable.

No I think it is incompetence of the President and his State Department

[ptif219]

I think you have been listening to too many retired guy tv pundits writing novels on the side.

I think you fail to see the President has failed at his cover up

[Deadwood]

It seems the CIA's version is in dispute

http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...vents-disputed