Another Benghazi Bombshell

Does anyone know why we had the "compound" in Benghazi when we already had our embassy in Tripoli? Also can anyone clarify why Ambassador Stevens went to the compound on the anniversary of 9/11.

 

i think they were trying to keep a low profile

 

I don't understand what that means. A low profile for what purpose?

 

fewer people, smaller target, less attractive to someone that wants to make a big hit

just imagine if there had been two or three hundred americans at the compound and a bomb went off

 

A big secret. I presume it had something to do with weapons transfer to Syrian rebels. If true, I fully support the operation.

 

Pretty strange we have all these hearing and books and nobody seems able to answer even the most fundamental questions. If the entire thing was covert CIA including Stevens it would explain why nobody really knows much of anything. But even that doesn't explain why Stevens felt he had to go to an under protected compound on the anniversary of 9/11. What could have been so urgent?

And if it was weapons smuggling why Benghazi and why someone as prominent as Stevens.

 

Killing a US ambassador doesn't qualify as a big hit in your book?

 

Did the terrorists know the Ambassador was in residence? My guess is probably, but if it was a "hit", then all the planning necessitated knowing he'd be there.

 

i'm talking about big numbers, not rank

 

It is not uncommon for an ambassador to be CIA. Operation Zero Footprint was buying back weapons from Libya that were starting to show up in Iraq against our own. Benghazi also may have been active in arming the Syrian rebels.

 

It would still not have affected Benghazi as it would have been inappropriate under international laws and customs for the US Marines to have been stationed at Benghazi. Only an embassy is considered to be the sovereign territory of the nation that can be defended by it's military and not other adminstrative offices that might exist in a foreign country.

 

Same goes for consulates. Marines are the only service authorized to do so.

Back in the 1980s when Nicaragua was heating up, there was concern they'd do the same to the US embassy there as the Iranians did in 1979. If one US Army soldier set foot in Nicaragua, it is considered an act of war. If we sent the entire United States Marine Corps, bombing airfields, ports and other military targets to eliminate threats, as a rescue mission to go in,extract our people and leave, then it's legal under international law.

 

Ahhh it was HIS job they were trying to circumvent, one of the persons there was HIS subordinate employee and no it is not speculation because he engaged in a direct inquiry and saw with his own eyes. The reporting is by long time highly respected investigative reporter Sheryl Attkisson.

So simple dismissals fail.

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We have Marines throughout the world in non "sovereign" areas and if the zone was hot they certainly can be sent there.

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Pure conjecture.

So if what he says is true it is NOT a bombshell?

 

Or you just do the planning and then wait for the right opportunity which is probably what happened.

 

Can you actually document that claim or is it just a guess.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms

 

If there are measures that can be taken to prevent the sort of lethal terrorist attacks on overseas US installations such as have occurred under Secretaries of State Powell, Rice, and Clinton, formulating such security protocols and monitoring their implementation is a meritorious pursuit.

Exploiting the dead in a partisan vendetta is not.

Let's hope Trey Gowdy can maintain the high road and thereby raise the abysmal public regard that hyper-partisans in Congress have earned.

 

Sheryl Attkisson's story states that this is "alledged" and not "factual" if I recall correctly. People are acting like it's a fact and not an allegation that has not been supported by collaboration or any evidence.

It still has absolutely nothing to do with the events at Benghazi.

Not without the consent of the government of the nation where the Marines are to be sent. Sending the Marines into another country without a treaty authorizing it is an act of war against a sovereign nation. It's called an invasion in case you didn't know.

 

Please provide a link to the international law that authorizes this.

 

You got anything on this "operation zero footprint" that's not from Above Top Secret or other trash sites?

 

It is pretty well known that the CIA operation in Benghazi was there to buy back arms we sent from the Libyan rebels. We used the Saudis to fund them and Qatar to distribute them, all under this Administrations direction. All perfectly legal.

 

Links?

 

It's an allegation with no proof to back it. Same 'ol same 'ol...

 

"Some guy" making allegations with no proof to back it is fodder for the usual right wing bomb throwers. Nothing to see here.

 

That's your problem right there.