Many of us had surmised this — between the ambassador’s strange meetings, the nearby annex, rumors of attempts to recover ground to air missile launchers, etc., — the whole story has never added up.
And a man still sits in jail for a video, his government at the highest levels, with pre-knowledge of his innocence, having determined to use him as a scapegoat in order to hide their own massive screw ups.
CNN [emphasis mine]:
CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack.
Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault by armed militants last September 11 in eastern Libya.
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.
In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, “You don’t jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well.”
Another says, “You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation.”
Imagine! When Obama promised us “transparency,” he meant it in the same way he meant “post-partisan” and “post-racial.” Though in fairness, who could have known? I mean, that pant crease, and, well, he’s rumored to be a terrific father. Really, were there any clues we may have missed on our way to clapping ourselves on the back for being part of something so historic?
Aside from the stuff we’re not allowed to talk about, of course. Like his friendship with Khalidi and Ayers, his affiliation with the socialist party in Chicago, his mentoring under Frank Davis, Alinsky, and Piven, his college Marxism, his anti-Semitic, spiritual adviser, or his admiration for the racialist purveyors of “critical race theory”.
Other than that, though. Why, he’s so clean and articulate….
(h/t Sdferr)
Looking phonier with each new revelation. Obama’s credibility, that is. .
…and, well, he’s rumored to be a terrific father.
A lot of closeted fathers are, so what’s the big deal?
‘Really, were there any clues we may have missed on our way to clapping ourselves on the back for being part of something so
historichistrionic?TFTFY
Jake Tapper committing an act of journalism
very #Outlawish appearing on Pravda’s CNN division website.
Jake is wavering on coming over to the Dark Side?
What are the odds that Jake Tapper is next in line for the James Rosen treatment, or worse?
You’re assuming that there isn’t already a wiretap on Tapper’s phones, yes?
I think the AP subpoena showed how wide a net they’re willing to cast.
the ricin thing with mr g. would fit this crews’ modus operandi
Kind of related, but a blogger I used to follow got a visit from PD in SUV’s based on what she and her hubby were using in Google search terms
I’m very mixed on my feelings on this … glad everything turned out ok, but am seething mad at the “Can we look around your house? No, we don’t have a warrant but hey, you have nothing to hide do you?” approach.
Libby
By this time, I bet the old dead drop method of covert communication is back.
good thing it wasn’t a baby deer
” No, we don’t have a warrant but hey, you have nothing to hide do you?” approach.”
link
” On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” ”
mostly just “pressure cooker” but “bombs” added gives it panache.
Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google
Don’t search backpacks, either. Kind of difficult with it being Back to School shopping season.
Michelle never said that “Google” tipped off the cops, just that at the time of the search, the cops alluded to computer search terms that were used.
” the cops alluded to computer search terms that were used.”
“that’s retarded sir” rj 3.O! go get deer!!11!!
Jake Tapper: Remember when Rand Paul asked Hillary about gun running in Libya?
Damn. Her son is now 20? Seems like yesterday he was playing little league and learning how to play the guitar. What was his name? DJ?
[…] Coverup May be Worse Than Previously Thought Allahpundit: CIA In Panic Over CNN Revelations Protein Wisdom: “Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack” NRO Corner: CIA Trying To Cover Up Involvement In Benghazi Power Line: Banghazi Coverup By The CIA? […]
Fast & Furious II – The overseas edition.
The concluding paragraph from geoffb’s link:
*** Wolf disagrees, telling Breitbart News, “It’s intimidation. If your fifty-years old and have a couple of kids in college and have a mortgage and you live in McLean you can’t risk getting fired.” ***
I’d say “intimidee” number 1 was the Director of the CIA, Ret. Gen. David Petraeus, wouldn’t you? What better example to set for all the underlings below him? Like: “Think you can get away with crossing us when we can nail a man of this stature, flunky?”
We need to pin down the Administration and have them give us a definite number for how many American corpses it takes to elevate a scandal from “phony” to “serious.”
It’s not the number of dead, it’s the end sought that makes the difference between “phony” and real scandals. That and just what the LIVs will swallow whole with no chaser.
Or maybe it’s just the Lefty projection at work as always.
There is as well a related — if photo-negative — sort of example to that of David Petraeus being set in this Republic in these dark days: namely, the example of the failure of the Congress to impeach a President who gleefully declares openly his intention to violate his oath of office, and to impeach him on those grounds alone.
For Benghazi that works. But we can go back to Gerald Walpin at least for the time that Obama has been in office.
Then again Obama’s entire political and organizing career has been about intimidation which is at the heart of all politics, hell all of life on the
ProRegressive Left.– Ok Goldbreath – I get the message.
Conor Friedersdorf announces to the world that he’s been a dumbass and that he will work at being smarter, really, really, he will.
Rick Moran however still clings stubbornly to his dumbassedness because he’s so much smarter that way.
Heh, geoffb confirms to me that a conscious choice to ignore Conor Friedersdorf was a good one ab initio.
You make a good point that we look back further and more comprehensively, geoffb, even in the case of the intimidation of the CIA itself! Since, thinking on it only a little, I find a now faint memory that Obazm’s Attorney General Eric Holder no sooner took office than he announced an investigation (bearing criminal penalties) against CIA officers who had participated in the harsh interrogations of Al Qaeda-men during the Bush Administration. There was a new sheriff in Washington, and the notice had been put.
Limbaugh says Van Susteren wants to interview the Benghazi survivors. But that must mean that Van Susteren has not taken the gigantic hint laid down a few days ago regarding David Ubben — from Louis Gomert: (gisting) Don’t. His story is not relevant to the wrongdoing at hand, and besides, he doesn’t want notoriety.