I'm sure both reps and dems were full aware that the CIA was running guns to rebels in Syria. Why do you think the reps aren't running wild with that story. Because they knew that phony consulate in Benghazi simply provided cover for a CIA operation.
The CIA has been running weapons shipping operations for decades. The problem is with who they're shipping guns to. A lot of times the rebels we send arms to are worse than the governments they seek to topple. The rebels in Syria appear to be Al Qaeda affiliates. They're worse than the Assad regime. I'm no fan of Assad but at least he ran a fairly secular government.
We did the same thing in the overthrow of Gaddafi. Al Qaeda was Gaddafi's primary enemy. So we were on the side of Al Qaeda in that deal.
Looks like we're supporting some bad people in the Ukraine crisis as well. Both the CIA and FBI are over there giving support to the coup government in Kiev that overthrew their duly elected Prime Minister. Probably because he didn't want to join the EU. Well some of the people now in place in that coup government are members of the Svoboda party. They happen to be neo Nazis. Isn't that grand.
Originally Posted by cowboy8055
A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a
secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar;
the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it became known he was having an affair with his biographer. (A spokesperson for Petraeus denied the operation ever took place.)
The operation had not been disclosed at the time it was set up to the congressional intelligence committees and the congressional leadership, as required by law since the 1970s. The involvement of MI6 enabled the CIA to evade the law by classifying the mission as a liaison operation. The former intelligence official explained that for years there has been a recognised exception in the law that permits the CIA not to report liaison activity to Congress, which would otherwise be owed a finding. (All proposed CIA covert operations must be described in a written document, known as a ‘finding’, submitted to the senior leadership of Congress for approval.) Distribution of the annex was limited to the staff aides who wrote the report and to the eight ranking members of Congress – the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate, and the Democratic and Republicans leaders on the House and Senate intelligence committees. This hardly constituted a genuine attempt at oversight: the eight leaders are not known to gather together to raise questions or discuss the secret information they receive.
The annex didn’t tell the whole story of what happened in Benghazi before the attack, nor did it explain why the American consulate was attacked.
‘The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms,’ the former intelligence official, who has read the annex, said. ‘It had no real political role.’
don't tell whirlie. his head will split wide open yammering about a tape