It was a CIA Operation

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

Just being reported on Huffington Post, 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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/benghazi-media-news-cia-request_n_2066651.html

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.

[KaryninMiami]

1. Imagine that- the administration knew exactly what they were doing.

Brilliant as usual. And besides -it was no one's fucking business what was really going on -- not until the people who were managing it from the inside were ready for us to know. That's exactly what I said to someone- that there is something bigger going on here that we do not know about- so they let everyone think they were clueless. Very deliberately. Finally, the smart team is running the show.

Pray that they get another 4 years.

[northoftheborder]

2. String that Issa and his crowd up by the heels.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. On November 5, 1944

Issa would have been demanding public disclosure of the D-Day invasion plans.

What a tool.

[zbdent]

10. Wouldn't surprise me if he had "At Dawn We Slept" memorized

like the "living books" of Fahrenheit 451 ...

[liberalmuse]

7. Issa is corrupt.

He is the one who needs to be investigated and possibly imprisoned.

[TroyD]

4. Not a surprise

The CIA has its hands over everything. Truman, Eisenhower & Kennedy all warned us about this. . .

[Schema Thing]

5. I'm just joe schmoe, but I knew it was CIA involved almost immediately.

I hope the CIA retaliates, frankly.

[Iggy]

14. Tit for Tat Murders??

uhhhh, yeah, cause that has worked so well for Israel in dealing with their "terrorist"
problem.

[Schema Thing]

16. oh jesus. please be a little more creative when talking to me.

retaliates against the attacks from the republicans.

[Iggy]

21. Nice Effort at Deflection

but no cigar... "sorry". nice level of arrogance, too

[DollarBillHines]

6. When they were referred to as "former SEALs", I just knew it. nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

8. It would not surprise me in the least...

to learn that some current SEALS (and other uniformed personnel) are not on the CIA payroll as well.

[DollarBillHines]

9. Sure beats a day job.

Boredom sucks.

[courseofhistory]

11. What??? NO Conspiracy?

Awwww....the hyperventillating republicans will be so disappointed but they'll still keep making something of it that it wasn't.

Imagine, no instant results like on TV or the movies where everything is resolved in the space of one or 2 hours!

[hexola]

12. To be fair - even Fox called them "Former SEALs" in the first story

Not really a new revelation...once you saw they were former SEALs - you knew they were there as part of something else - private security...who knows...

[frylock]

13. this will certainly fuel outrage over the librul media's coverup

[unc70]

15. We knew that 3-4 days after attack

There wasn't a consulate in Benghazi, cover stories kept changing, other indications. Issa's document dump that Friday a month after attack confirmed most points. I had tried to research the consulate a couple of days after the attack and realized there wasn't any consulate there. Obama and Clinton carefully avoided using that word. Fairly obvious what was really going on.

We knew about the CIA presence but it was not understood by most people, for example this thread that discusses Steven's diary and mentions the size of CIA contingent leaving Libya:

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10021408211

I mentioned in passing the CIA a couple of times. Couple were taken down, so I backed off.

My Oct 12 post at wral.com got taken down, but is still in google search. I limited my early postings to things widely known or at least speculated.

Here is Oct 13 DU discussion, already knew it was CIA:

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10021530364

My post Oct 19 at wral.com a week later still used the term consulate:

http://www.wral.com/both-parties-seek-advantage-in-rush-of-early-voting/11677100/

There were early discussions on DU, a couple of threads were deleted by OP, thought had posted here during that time.

Here is a DU discussion from Oct 20 after the fact there was no consulate in Benghazi was becoming generally known:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021686160

[dooner]

17. So will Fox shut up now?

Or will they just keep spinning their Benghazi conspiracy theory?

I think there were good posts and links here on DU regarding Benghazi-CIA weeks ago... Also saw it noted that apparently Romney stopped criticizing the Obama administration's handling of Benghazi after he got his top secret briefing.

[allrevvedup]

18. Romney sure didn't shut about about in the 2nd debate

though it would have gone better for him if he had. And NPR and BBC have been going on about Benghazi 24/7 so I doubt Fox is going to do any different.

The question in my mind is, how much of it was a spook operation? All of it perhaps, including the AQ attack? Funny how the whole Arab Spring including extradjudicial Gaddafi execution came off without a hitch, but a few weeks before the US election, the CIA has an oopsie that gives the GOP a major talking point, in fact its only talking point, on 9/11 no less, the very day Obama deep-sixed Netanyahu's Iran attack for the last time:

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM, Sept 11 (Reuters) - In a highly unusual rebuff to a close ally, the White House said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama would not meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a U.S. visit later this month, as tensions escalated over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program. http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/11/israel-iran-netanyahu-idINL5E8KB9DC20120911

Yes I am suspicious.

[AverageJoe90]

19. Maybe, but.....

It's possible that the Arab Spring may have indeed been hijacked. Look at what happened in Egypt for example.
But I think TPTB would much rather have seen Gaddafi survive. He was definitely one of their puppets.

[MisterJones]

20. Like Bin Laden? nt.

[Iggy]

22. Useful Idiots Strategy

Hussein was one of our puppets as well-- but he went way off the reservation-- i.e. he started
signing contracts with Russian and EU corporations to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastrucuture and
railroads after Gulf War I. He made an effort to create his own oil bourse-- following Iran's lead
who I believe created their own natural gas bourse.

Hussein did this to "punish" the U.S. and Great Britain for the crippling sanctions imposed
against Iraq which obviously pissed him off.

Keep in mind one of the things the Bush cabal did upon entering office after the 2000 (stolen)
election was draw up a map of Iraq indicating which U.S. oil transnationals would get which
phat oil fields in Iraq-- after we invaded and occupied.

Had Hussein simply did as he had been doing-- i.e. doing business mostly with U.S. corporations,
I'm confident he and his thug sons would still be in charge of Iraq.

[Coyotl]

25. Fox is overly-flatulent about this, in concert with the Romney crowd, cuz they got zip

[Mtndreamer]

23. Said this from the beginning..

and the subsequent media fabrication perpetuated this, the WH message was confusing...

Benghazi as a consulate made no sense, and a CIA outpost was the likely story from the beginning.

This news does not stop Drudge or Fox continuing to play this non story...

[DCBob]

24. The whole Faux Bengazi outrage is rediculous.

It so obvious is politically motivated.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

26. I hope there's some pissed off CIA agents out there pissed at Fox and Drudge...

I bet they could have a little fun with them.

[rightsideout]

27. It was obvious there had to be a CIA link

As soon as Chavez opened his mouth during their witch hunt inquiry and spilled the beans that the CIA was nearby.

Leave it to the Republicans to give away security secrets in an effort to nail Obama. This whole thing should be turned right around on them. They are treasonous for alerting the enemy to CIA operatives and operations in sensitive areas of the world.