Benghazi - NOT a "Phony" Scandal

[n david]

Last week Obama had diarrhea of the mouth again and claimed that Republicans were too busy chasing phony scandals.

So far for most of this year, we've seen an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals.

In the past 24 hours, CNN and The Telegraph have delivered a broadside hit on the White House. Let's be clear, Benghazi is NOT a phony scandal. The breadth of what happened and the depth to which this administration has gone to cover it up is breathtaking, and should cause every American to demand the truth.

There were whispers last year that Obama's administration was involved in a gun-running op in Libya. CIA operatives were assisted in funneling arms from Libya into Syria to the rebels there. It was a way to bypass Congress and try to help the Syrian rebels.

The Telegraph headline: "CIA 'running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked'"

CNN's headline: "Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack"


From The Telegraph:

Up to 35 CIA operatives were working in the city during the attack last September on the US consulate that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, according to CNN.

...a CIA team was working in an annex near the consulate on a project to supply missiles from Libyan armouries to Syrian rebels.

From CNN:

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.

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.

The CIA is in full coverup mode...

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.

"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.

Not only is the CIA involved in intimidation and coverup, Rep. Troy Gowdy is accusing the Obama administration directly of hiding survivors, moving them around the country, and even changing their names!

Including changing names, creating aliases. Stop and think what things are most calculated to get at the truth? Talk to people with first-hand knowledge. What creates the appearance and perhaps the reality of a cover-up? Not letting us talk with people who have the most amount of information, dispersing them around the country and changing their names.

IMO, that quote from Obama is going to come back to bite him big time.

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