Before the Obama administration gave an inaccurate narrative on national television that the Benghazi attacks grew from an anti-American protest, the CIA’s station chief in Libya pointedly told his superiors in Washington that no such demonstration occurred, documents and interviews with current and former intelligence officials show.
The attack was “not an escalation of protests,” the station chief wrote to then-Deputy CIA Director Michael J. Morell in an email dated Sept. 15, 2012 — a full day before the White House sent Susan E. Rice to several Sunday talk shows to disseminate talking points claiming that the Benghazi attack began as a protest over an anti-Islam video.
That the talking points used by Mrs. Rice, who was then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, were written by a CIA that ignored the assessment by its own station chief inside Libya, has emerged as one of the major bones of contention in the more than two years of political fireworks and congressional investigations into the Benghazi attack.
What has never been made public is whether Mr. Morell and others at the CIA explicitly shared the station chief’s assessment with the White House or State Department.
Two former intelligence officials have told The Washington Times that this question likely will be answered at a Wednesday hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during which Mr. Morell is scheduled to give his public testimony.
Mr. Morell, who has since left the CIA, declined to comment on the matter Monday. He now works at Beacon Global Strategies, a Washington insider strategic communications firm.
One former intelligence official close to Mr. Morell told The Times on the condition of anonymity that “the whole question of communication with the station chief will be addressed in his testimony.”
“We’re confident that it will clarify the situation in the minds of many who are asking,” the former official said.
Another former intelligence official told The Times that Mr. Morell did tell the White House and the State Department that the CIA station chief in Libya had concluded that there was no protest but senior Obama administration and CIA officials in Washington ignored the assessment.
But it’s OK
because, as Sen Kerrey confirmed,
this President has no problem telling a big fat lie if it suits his objective.
The CIA and Homeland Security(for background checkers)are both advertising on local job search pages around Silver City, NM, which is in the middle of Nowheresville – not that it is relevant to Bengazi in any way.
I wonder why the CIA is not backing up their ostensible “boss” Harrison J.? Maybe they haven’t figured out where he is from yet either.
Benghazi is the scandal that scares Hillary Clinton’s peeps & Obama lackeys more than any others. Idiotic plan … criminal negligence … ignoring sub-standard security ratings & a SNAFU of glacial proportion. Hillary wanted street credibility in the foreign affairs field & disregarded all proper diplomatic security measures so she could attain her goal driven by ideology that is flawed & failed. Go back to 2011 when she committed $40Million to buyback weapons in Benghazi during her Tripoli visit … why do you think Mike Morell is now working for Beacon Consulting run by Hillary Clinton backer and long time friend. Quid pro quo for Mike Morell … disgusting.
Benghazi is the scandal that scares Hillary Clinton’s peeps & Obama lackeys more than any others. Idiotic plan … criminal negligence … ignoring sub-standard security ratings & a SNAFU of glacial proportion. Hillary wanted street credibility in the foreign affairs field & disregarded all proper diplomatic security measures so she could attain her goal driven by ideology that is flawed & failed. Go back to 2011 when she committed $40Million to buyback weapons in Benghazi during her Tripoli visit … why do you think Mike Morell is now working for Beacon Consulting run by Hillary Clinton backer and long time friend. Quid pro quo for Mike Morell … disgusting. Read more here with sources well documented
Benghazi is the scandal that scares Hillary Clinton’s peeps & Obama lackeys more than any others. Idiotic plan … criminal negligence … ignoring sub-standard security ratings & a SNAFU of glacial proportion. Hillary wanted street credibility in the foreign affairs field & disregarded all proper diplomatic security measures so she could attain her goal driven by ideology that is flawed & failed. Go back to 2011 when she committed $40Million to buyback weapons in Benghazi during her Tripoli visit … why do you think Mike Morell is now working for Beacon Consulting run by Hillary Clinton backer and long time friend. Quid pro quo for Mike Morell … disgusting. Google search #Benghazi Synopsis for well documented sources
“more than two years of political fireworks…” Time flies.