News Outlets Held Back Detail Of Benghazi Attack At CIA's Request

[courseofhistory]

Told you so!

It was a CIA Operation

Just being reported , several of the SEALS at Benghazi were actually contractors working for the CIA and several news outlets were aware of this. The information was embargoed, presumably to allow the CIA time to clear out any assets and salvage what information it could from the operation.

Short story is THAT is why the administration was less that forthcoming and willing to allow people to think it was just an angry mob. This was apparently a group of militants who know EXACTLY what they were after when the attacked the Consulate. After the attack there were still sensitive assets (including CIA operatives) still on the ground in Libya, and the administration wanted more time to assess the situation.

News Outlets Held Back Detail Of Benghazi Attack At CIA's Request

NEW YORK -- U.S. intelligence officials, speaking on a not-for-attribution basis, provided reporters Thursday with the most detailed explanation yet of the CIA's presence in Benghazi, Libya, and the agency's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, while also identifying the two former Navy SEALs killed that night as being employed by the CIA.

But some news organizations, including the Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post, already knew that the two former SEALs -- Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty -- were working for the CIA and had agreed not to publish the information at the government's request.

While AP, the Times and the Post held back this detail following an official request, reporters at other news outlets may also have known or assumed the men were not security contractors given the nature of their work in Libya. ABC News, for example, reported that Doherty had been working to "round up dangerous weapons" in the country. One national security reporter told The Huffington Post that it was an "open secret" in national security circles that the former SEALs were working for the CIA.

Doherty and Woods were in Libya on contract with the CIA. They say they omitted mention of the 2 former SEALs' CIA connection so that other lives wouldn't be endangered. Thus the "silence" from the administration (gasp! they were actually trying to protect other people!!)

Only seven of the 30 people evacuated were with the State Department. Thus the rest were CIA and primarily under the direction and supervision of the CIA, not State.

Now it is clear the Seals killed that night were not part of any security detail. It was an attack on an intelligence gathering installation rather than an embassy which paints a vastly different picture.

...disclosing such information could jeopardize future sensitive government activities and put at risk American personnel working in dangerous settings

.

 

[Lakhota]

Good information.

 

[Lakhota]

Food for thought...

Benghazi Political Fail

 

[The Infidel]

Ummm.... this is not "new" news idiot troll....


The Blaze was saying all of this a couple nights after the attack.

 

[saveliberty]

Gee, it only took the White House a month to come up with the new spin.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Told you so!

It was a CIA Operation

Just being reported , several of the SEALS at Benghazi were actually contractors working for the CIA and several news outlets were aware of this. The information was embargoed, presumably to allow the CIA time to clear out any assets and salvage what information it could from the operation.

Short story is THAT is why the administration was less that forthcoming and willing to allow people to think it was just an angry mob. This was apparently a group of militants who know EXACTLY what they were after when the attacked the Consulate. After the attack there were still sensitive assets (including CIA operatives) still on the ground in Libya, and the administration wanted more time to assess the situation.

News Outlets Held Back Detail Of Benghazi Attack At CIA's Request

NEW YORK -- U.S. intelligence officials, speaking on a not-for-attribution basis, provided reporters Thursday with the most detailed explanation yet of the CIA's presence in Benghazi, Libya, and the agency's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, while also identifying the two former Navy SEALs killed that night as being employed by the CIA.

But some news organizations, including the Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post, already knew that the two former SEALs -- Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty -- were working for the CIA and had agreed not to publish the information at the government's request.

While AP, the Times and the Post held back this detail following an official request, reporters at other news outlets may also have known or assumed the men were not security contractors given the nature of their work in Libya. ABC News, for example, reported that Doherty had been working to "round up dangerous weapons" in the country. One national security reporter told The Huffington Post that it was an "open secret" in national security circles that the former SEALs were working for the CIA.

Doherty and Woods were in Libya on conract with the CIA. They say they omitted mention of the 2 former SEALs' CIA connection so that other lives wouldn't be endangered. Thus the "silence" from the administration (gasp! they were actually trying to protect other people!!)

Only seven of the 30 people evacuated were with the State Department. Thus the rest were CIA and primarily under the direction and supervision of the CIA, not State.

Now it is clear the Seals killed that night were not part of any security detail. It was an attack on an intelligence gathering installation rather than an embassy which paints a vastly different picture.

...disclosing such information could jeopardize future sensitive government activities and put at risk American personnel working in dangerous settings

.

Strange, I read about this a couple of weeks ago, why do you think it proves Obama is not an idiot?

 

[Stephanie]

oh the OP TOLD US SO

and now the Hufferpost is finally telling us....yeah sure

 

[saveliberty]

Think anyone will buy it the second time? lol

 

[courseofhistory]

If the repub syncopants can't realize that the administration was delaying the full story of what happened to protect people and assets still there and in other places, you are sadder people than I thought you were. That you can't acknowledge or understand that is no surprise, however.

 

[Stephanie]

If the repub syncopants can't realize that the administration was delaying the full story of what happened to protect people and assets still there and in other places, you are sadder people than I thought you were. That you can't acknowledge or understand that is no surprise, however.

You can swallow that, doesn't MEAN everyone else will

 

[saveliberty]

If the repub syncopants can't realize that the administration was delaying the full story of what happened to protect people and assets still there and in other places, you are sadder people than I thought you were. That you can't acknowledge or understand that is no surprise, however.

What do crazy pants have to do with this?

Why did he let the assets get slaughtered then? Being as they were so valuable and all.

 

[The Infidel]

If the repub syncopants can't realize that the administration was delaying the full story of what happened to protect people and assets still there and in other places, you are sadder people than I thought you were. That you can't acknowledge or understand that is no surprise, however.

You can swallow that, doesn't MEAN everyone else will

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[The Infidel]

If the repub syncopants can't realize that the administration was delaying the full story of what happened to protect people and assets still there and in other places, you are sadder people than I thought you were. That you can't acknowledge or understand that is no surprise, however.

What do crazy pants have to do with this?

Why did he let the assets get slaughtered then? Being as they were so valuable and all.

She wont have the integrity to answer ya.





I'd like to know why no pic from "The Situation Room"?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

If the repub syncopants can't realize that the administration was delaying the full story of what happened to protect people and assets still there and in other places, you are sadder people than I thought you were. That you can't acknowledge or understand that is no surprise, however.

If you want me to believe they are trying to protect assets you have to explain how CNN was able to walk into the compound and pick up top secret documents. In fact, why don't you explain how reporters are still able to walk through the complex, and the annex, picking up classified material. Wouldn't it make more sense to have made sure the documents were safe in the first place than to try and keep the news from talking about it?

 

[tinydancer]

Told you so!

It was a CIA Operation

Just being reported , several of the SEALS at Benghazi were actually contractors working for the CIA and several news outlets were aware of this. The information was embargoed, presumably to allow the CIA time to clear out any assets and salvage what information it could from the operation.

Short story is THAT is why the administration was less that forthcoming and willing to allow people to think it was just an angry mob. This was apparently a group of militants who know EXACTLY what they were after when the attacked the Consulate. After the attack there were still sensitive assets (including CIA operatives) still on the ground in Libya, and the administration wanted more time to assess the situation.

News Outlets Held Back Detail Of Benghazi Attack At CIA's Request

NEW YORK -- U.S. intelligence officials, speaking on a not-for-attribution basis, provided reporters Thursday with the most detailed explanation yet of the CIA's presence in Benghazi, Libya, and the agency's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, while also identifying the two former Navy SEALs killed that night as being employed by the CIA.

But some news organizations, including the Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post, already knew that the two former SEALs -- Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty -- were working for the CIA and had agreed not to publish the information at the government's request.

While AP, the Times and the Post held back this detail following an official request, reporters at other news outlets may also have known or assumed the men were not security contractors given the nature of their work in Libya. ABC News, for example, reported that Doherty had been working to "round up dangerous weapons" in the country. One national security reporter told The Huffington Post that it was an "open secret" in national security circles that the former SEALs were working for the CIA.

Doherty and Woods were in Libya on contract with the CIA. They say they omitted mention of the 2 former SEALs' CIA connection so that other lives wouldn't be endangered. Thus the "silence" from the administration (gasp! they were actually trying to protect other people!!)

Only seven of the 30 people evacuated were with the State Department. Thus the rest were CIA and primarily under the direction and supervision of the CIA, not State.

Now it is clear the Seals killed that night were not part of any security detail. It was an attack on an intelligence gathering installation rather than an embassy which paints a vastly different picture.

...disclosing such information could jeopardize future sensitive government activities and put at risk American personnel working in dangerous settings

.

I spent my whole day hunting you. You were I think worth it.

Maybe lets see.

 

[saveliberty]

How was protecting details of the ambassador's fate helping the CIA assets again? I must have missed that part.

 

[Charles_Main]

Benghazi Version 7.9740

 

[saveliberty]

If the repub syncopants can't realize that the administration was delaying the full story of what happened to protect people and assets still there and in other places, you are sadder people than I thought you were. That you can't acknowledge or understand that is no surprise, however.

What do crazy pants have to do with this?

Why did he let the assets get slaughtered then? Being as they were so valuable and all.

She wont have the integrity to answer ya.





I'd like to know why no pic from "The Situation Room"?

Because the golf course clubhouse has rules about that.

 

[tinydancer]

Told you so!

It was a CIA Operation

Just being reported , several of the SEALS at Benghazi were actually contractors working for the CIA and several news outlets were aware of this. The information was embargoed, presumably to allow the CIA time to clear out any assets and salvage what information it could from the operation.

Short story is THAT is why the administration was less that forthcoming and willing to allow people to think it was just an angry mob. This was apparently a group of militants who know EXACTLY what they were after when the attacked the Consulate. After the attack there were still sensitive assets (including CIA operatives) still on the ground in Libya, and the administration wanted more time to assess the situation.

News Outlets Held Back Detail Of Benghazi Attack At CIA's Request

NEW YORK -- U.S. intelligence officials, speaking on a not-for-attribution basis, provided reporters Thursday with the most detailed explanation yet of the CIA's presence in Benghazi, Libya, and the agency's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, while also identifying the two former Navy SEALs killed that night as being employed by the CIA.

But some news organizations, including the Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post, already knew that the two former SEALs -- Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty -- were working for the CIA and had agreed not to publish the information at the government's request.

While AP, the Times and the Post held back this detail following an official request, reporters at other news outlets may also have known or assumed the men were not security contractors given the nature of their work in Libya. ABC News, for example, reported that Doherty had been working to "round up dangerous weapons" in the country. One national security reporter told The Huffington Post that it was an "open secret" in national security circles that the former SEALs were working for the CIA.

Doherty and Woods were in Libya on contract with the CIA. They say they omitted mention of the 2 former SEALs' CIA connection so that other lives wouldn't be endangered. Thus the "silence" from the administration (gasp! they were actually trying to protect other people!!)

Only seven of the 30 people evacuated were with the State Department. Thus the rest were CIA and primarily under the direction and supervision of the CIA, not State.

Now it is clear the Seals killed that night were not part of any security detail. It was an attack on an intelligence gathering installation rather than an embassy which paints a vastly different picture.

...disclosing such information could jeopardize future sensitive government activities and put at risk American personnel working in dangerous settings

.

Gee why did Panetta come out and say we had to let them Die?

I have him in a CBS moment.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

We do know from the following that not all the Lame Stream Media is silent a blacking out the Benghazi fiasco.

link: video & transcript http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162...n-and-emanuel/

timely blog attached: Politics Are Personal
http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/vi...e&VID=23860207... http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162...n-and-emanuel/