Archive for the ‘Benghazi Terrorist Attack’ Category
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
THE COUNTER JIHAD REPORT
U.S. aided arms flow from Benghazi to Syria
A Syrian Kurdish fighter in Kobani, Syria, in January Associated Press
WorldMag.com, By J.C. DERRICK, May 18, 2015:
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Clare Lopez, a member of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi—a group of former intelligence officers, military personnel, and national security experts—told me it comes as no surprise that Benghazi was a retaliatory attack since al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a video had called on the “sons of Libya” to avenge his deputy’s death. Lopez said the Judicial Watch release is “very significant,” because it “begins to peel back a little more of the layers of the onion about what was going on in Benghazi, and why that mission [facility] was there.”
Lopez, a former CIA officer who is now a vice president at the Center for Security Policy, said the commission has confirmed it was not the CIA but the State Department that managed the gun-running operation. According to Lopez, the department put up between $125,000 to $175,000 for each surface-to-air missile it funneled out of Libya to the Syrian battlefield.
WASHINGTON—Documents released today confirm the Obama administration knew weapons were flowing out of Benghazi, Libya, to Syrian rebels in 2012 even though the rebels had well-publicized ties to al-Qaeda and other extremist groups.
Previous reports, including one by WORLD in 2013, have linked U.S. involvement in Libya to arms flowing into Syria, but the new documents provide the first verification that contradicts administration officials and congressional Democrats who maintained there was no evidence to support it. The documents provide further confirmation that the CIA and the State Department—under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—received immediate intelligence that the attack was committed by al-Qaeda- and Muslim Brotherhood-linked brigades, even as Clinton and other officials claimed it was the result of rioting against a Muslim-bashing video.
“Weapons from the former Libya military stockpiles were shipped from the port of Benghazi, Libya, to the Port of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria,” says an October 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document released with heavy redactions. It notes the activity took place weeks before terrorists attacked the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, killing four Americans in September: “The weapons shipped during late-August 2012 were [500] sniper rifles, [100] RPGs, and [400] 125 mm and 155 mm howitzers missiles.”
Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C., watchdog group, obtained the cache of more than 100 documents after filing a lawsuit in federal court. The judge who ordered the release, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is a 2013 appointee of President Barack Obama.
“These documents are jaw-dropping,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said. “No wonder we had to file more FOIA lawsuits and wait over two years for them.” (more…)
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
VIDEO – INTERVIEW WITH PAT CADDELL, DEMOCRAT STRAGEGIST – “MY PARTY IS THE DICTATOR TO THE COMMON MAN” – OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION – “THE SHIP OF FOOLS”
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Stonewalled’
By Ken Allard Ken Allard, a retired Army colonel, is a military analyst and author on national-security issues.
Special to The Washington Times – – Tuesday, November 4, 2014
STONEWALLED: MY FIGHT FOR TRUTH AGAINST THE FORCES OF OBSTRUCTION, INTIMIDATION, AND HARASSMENT IN OBAMA’S WASHINGTON
By Sharyl Attkisson
Harper, $27.99, 432 pages
Full disclosure first: I was one of those military analysts regularly seen on network television until a 2008 New York Times expose accused us of succumbing to improper influences by the Rumsfeld Pentagon. Because congressional Democrats howled for our heads, it took three years, four federal investigations and more than $2 million in tax dollars before The Times report was discredited and we were exonerated.
Ironically, we were accused of precisely the same pattern of government-media corruption at the heart of Sharyl Attkisson’s new blockbuster, “Stonewalled.” Her path-breaking CBS News investigative reports uncovered “phony scandals” from Fast and Furious to Benghazi and Obamacare. All were inconvenient truths that the Obama White House constantly stonewalled — hence the title and three of her eight chapters. Those revelations alone compare favorably with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s “All the President’s Men,” the canonical account of Watergate and the crimes of President Nixon.
With the heart of a lion and a beaver colony’s work ethic, Mrs. Attkisson also possesses the lockjawed determination of a pit bull. She needed that courage in 2012, when a “well-informed acquaintance” with intelligence connections warned that her Benghazi stories were raising eyebrows. “Keep at it. But you’d better watch out.” Her Deep Throat added, “The average American would be shocked at the extent to which this administration is conducting surveillance on private citizens.”
Shortly thereafter, Mrs. Attkisson’s phones and computers began acting strangely. As she prepared to confront Ambassador Thomas Pickering about his Benghazi report, “Suddenly the data in my computer file begins wiping at hyperspeed before my very eyes. Deleted line by line a split second: it’s gone, gone, gone.” While they might have been remaking the movie “Enemy of the State,” an exhaustive forensics analysis of Mrs. Attkisson’s iMac found evidence of classified documents planted deep in her hard drive; systematic intrusions allowing remote control of her personal files; most damning of all, “a backdoor link to an ISP address for a government computer.” It was slam-dunk confirmation of a deliberately planned government penetration, all predictably denied by Eric Holder Jr.’s Justice Department. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2014
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Friday, September 5th, 2014
’13 Hours’: New Book Says CIA Official In Benghazi
Stalled Rescue Of Ambassador Chris Stevens
on September 04 2014
A protester reacts as the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States on Sept. 11, 2012. Reuters/Esam Al-Fetori
The CIA station chief in Benghazi held up the rescue of Ambassador Chris Stevens and an American technician during an attack on the diplomats there, according to the New York Times, which, along with other media outlets, obtained a copy of a book detailing the event.
The new book, which is due out next week, is titled “13 Hours” and was written by Mitchell Zuckoff, a professor of journalism at Boston University. Zuckoff wrote the book with the input of five commandos who were former members of American Special Forces teams hired by the intelligence agency as private contractors. There are three commandos credited by name — Mark Geist, Kris Paronto and John Tiegen — and two of the commando-authors used pseudonyms.
The book says the station chief issued a “stand down,” hoping that Libyan militiamen would carry out the rescue so as not to expose the CIA base.
According to the Times, a diplomatic security agent said to the commandos: “If you guys do not get here, we are going to die!” The commandos left the base on their own despite the chief’s stand-down order. Two of their team died that night, the men say. Ambassador Stevens and the technician both died in the attack.
The book is the first detailed account of the Benghazi attack from security personnel. The incident was the subject of controversy during the last presidential campaign — Mitt Romney argued that President Obama had been slow to identify it as an act of terror — and it is certain to dog Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, if she decides to run for president in 2016. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Hillary Clinton’s neocon moment
Even the fondest liberal fantasy can fall before the onrush of reality
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is editor in chief of the American Spectator, a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and the author of “The Death of Liberalism” (Thomas Nelson, 2012).
Is it not a thing of wonderment that the two leading families of the Party of the Poor and Down-and-Out are ending the summer in Martha’s Vineyard? Both the Obamas and the Clintons are renting spacious mansions, probably from Wall Streeters, on that enchanted isle and playing golf and tennis, and — who knows — croquet, just like the Rockefellers or Vanderbilts. Yet do not expect them to be dining together in the moonlight. In fact, relations between them have turned downright hostile.
Hillary Clinton this week has made it all but final. She is a neoconservative, a genuine, 24-carat, neoconservative. She has all the credentials. Back in the 1970s, Irving Kristol, the official godfather of neoconservatism, defined a neoconservative as a liberal who has been mugged by reality. By that definition, a mere believer in muscular foreign policy pronouncements is no neoconservative. Perhaps he or she is a hawk, but not a neoconservative. To be a true neocon, one has to have once been a liberal — preferably a Trotskyite — and to have come to one’s conversion in fits and starts. Well, Mrs. Clinton certainly fills the bill, complete with fits and starts. (more…)
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Monday, August 18th, 2014
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Thursday, June 26th, 2014
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Monday, June 16th, 2014
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