Republicans Reveal Location Of Secret CIA Base During House Hearing On Libya Attacks
Source: Think Progress
In their questioning and in the public testimony they invited, the lawmakers managed to disclose, without ever mentioning Langley directly, that there was a seven-member “rapid response force” in the compound [in Benghazi] the State Department was calling an annex. One of the State Department security officials was forced to acknowledge that “not necessarily all of the security people” at the Benghazi compounds “fell under my direct operational control.”
And whose control might they have fallen under? Well, presumably it’s the “other government agency” or “other government entity” the lawmakers and witnesses referred to; Issa informed the public that this agency was not the FBI.
“Other government agency,” or “OGA,” is a common euphemism in Washington for the CIA. This “other government agency,” the lawmakers’ questioning further revealed, was in possession of a video of the attack but wasn’t releasing it because it was undergoing “an investigative process.”
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Republicans can not be trusted with secrets because they politicize them. First Valerie Plame now this.
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going back to October 1980, when the CIA's Donald Gregg copied Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for his second debate with Ronald Reagan, smuggled them out of the White House, turned them over to Reagan's campaign team and George Will used them to prepare Reagan for the Second Debate.
Reagan lost the first debate badly, and Carter was well ahead in the polls.
However, Reagan won the second debate, because he knew what Carter was going to say beforehand..("Well, there you go again"
, because of the stolen Carter briefing papers..
This was called "Debate-Gate", and, after "winning" the second debate, Reagan went on to defeat Carter in a close election.
Shouldn't theft of top secret papers from the White House be considered an act of treason?
To this day, I wonder why Donald Gregg, George Will, William Casey and others weren't tried for treason for their roles in "Debate Gate"
Both Donald Gregg and William Casey went on to become deeply involved in the Iran-Contra scandal.
...answer for this leak!
I have no doubt that Issa would do that in the House if any Democratic Senator did this in a hearing.
