Benghazi isn't even close. It's nothing. It's the cost of doing business in a bad neighborhood. Forget about it.
Forget about it? forget about all the lies and cover ups?
I don't think so!
No lies. No cover-ups. Just Republican delusions.
I think it's time for McCain and Graham to have a little chat with Petraeus' girlfriend.
Fox News and those Benghazi detainees - Erik Wemple - The Washington Post
Broadwell quoted the Fox News report when she said: “The facts that came out today were that the ground forces there at the CIA annex, which is different from the consulate, were requesting reinforcements.”
Talk about a Benghazi echo chamber!
Anyhow, the Griffin-Housley piece carefully pointed out the sensitive terrain on which Broadwell went beyond the Fox News Oct. 26 story:
Broadwell went on to explain more sensitive details from the Benghazi attacks, particularly concerning what the real cause might have been.
“Now, I don’t know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually, um, had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that’s still being vetted.”
ItÂ’s unclear just where Broadwell had fetched the notion that prisoners had motivated the attackers. Add that speculation to the log of existing possible motivations, including protests over an anti-Muslim video and a simple terrorist assault.
Griffin and Housley then take the story yet further, asserting that “other prisoners” from Africa and the Middle East were also held at the Benghazi CIA facility.
In the CIAÂ’s version of events, thereÂ’s absolutely no way that any prisoners could have prompted the attack on the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi. HereÂ’s the statement that the CIA gave to Fox:
The CIA has not had detention authority since January 2009, when Executive Order 13491 was issued. Any suggestion that the agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless.
The flimsiness of that denial is apparent to anyone who’s ever snooped around a scandal. Fox News, after all, never charged that the CIA was definitively in the “detention business,” just that there were some prisoners milling about in Benghazi. The Erik Wemple Blog asked the about the permeability of that statement and received this upgraded denial from a senior intelligence official: “These detention claims are categorically not true. Nobody was ever held at the annex before, during, or after the attacks.”
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