US Intelligence Suffers Major Compromise in Libya
The sheer incompetence of our State Department and the Obama administration is once again being trotted out for the world to see.
The tip of the iceberg was exposed last week when CNN reported on the journal of slain US Ambassador Christopher Stevens that one of its news crews had recovered from the smoking rubble of the former US consulate in Benghazi. One had to wonder what possessed a US ambassador to carry a paper journal outside the US embassy in this day and age and how in the name of heaven such a document was left unattended after the attack on the consulate.
Now it appears that the “safe house” where Stevens and others were supposed to find security during the attack was a treasure trove of CIA and State Department information on efforts to recover MANPADS and the identities of local nationals who were working on our behalf.
“It’s a catastrophic intelligence loss,” said one American official who has served in Libya and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the F.B.I. is still investigating the attack. “We got our eyes poked out.”
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American intelligence operatives also assisted State Department contractors and Libyan officials in tracking shoulder-fired missiles taken from the former arsenals of the former Libyan Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces; they aided in efforts to secure Libya’s chemical weapons stockpiles; and they helped train Libya’s new intelligence service, officials said.
Senior American officials acknowledged the intelligence setback, but insisted that information was still being collected using a variety of informants on the ground, systems that intercept electronic communications like cellphone conversations and satellite imagery. “The U.S. isn’t close to being blind in Benghazi and eastern Libya,” said an American official.
Spokesmen for the C.I.A., the State Department and the White House declined to comment on the matter on Sunday.
Adding to the general aura of disarray was the rather hilarious exchange between one of Hillary’s spokestoads, the French sounding Phillipe Reines, and Buzzfeed’s Michael Hastings when Buzzfeed decided to try to commit a random act of journalism. (You really have to read the article at the link. Trust me your day won’t be complete without it.)
From the tenor of interview, it seems that not only does Mr. Reines have a problem keeping his hands to himself but there is a much larger compromise of intelligence than is currently been reported. In the midst of a slanging match over State’s unprecedented attack on CNN’s reporting, we get this gem:
I do agree that the media has lots of responsibilities, and CNN fulfilled its responsibility by returning the diary while still managing to inform the American public of newsworthy information. So it’s unfortunate that you are trying to make a scapegoat out of CNN. That State was forced to flee Benghazi–again, because of such inadequate security, leaving behind all sorts of sensitive information–tells us more about DoS than CNN.
This lies and dissimulation of this administration in the aftermath of 9/11/12 have been stunning in both their scope and amateurishness. It paints the picture of an incompetent and insular regime only now confronting the first actual questions by the previously stump-trained media and failing miserably in the process.
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We have an empty chair in the White House......thank God we don't have to rely on polls who are trying their best to keep "nobody" in the White House...........
WOUD SAY THAT RATHER THAN AN EMPTY CHAR, WE HAVE A CHAIR FILLED BY THE ISLAMIC & COMMUNIST/SOCIALST
CNN did nothing wrong! Thanks CNN...The Ones that are pointing at everything but themselves...They are to blame here and we all know it.
I just got through watching some kool-aid drinking idiot named Trippi on Hannity this evening trying to defend this incompetent, worthless fool who calls himself president of this great land. How could they not have sent a covert team in to Libya within hours to police up any classified or personal papers. I know we have people who are trained to do that sort of thing. I know that for a fact because for several years I worked with them. Of course when you consider the fact that they first said it was because of some movie that this riot and murder took place and then they had to change their story and admit that it was a terrorist attack, and today the idiot in chief is back on to the movie excuse again should we expect anything less. Oh how I long for the days when this was a country run by the rule of law and not the rule of man. Were that still the case this idiot would be so deep in prison they would have to pipe in sunshine and air.
We are at war for the very life of our country! Obama is a muslim! I believe that Obama hates the U. S. Military! I believe that he feels threatened by them because they have each individually sworn an oath to defend and uphold the constitution of the U. S. I don't care where Obama was born! I don't care that Obama was an Indonesian Citizen! The one fact that Obama accepts and states repeatedly is that his father was a Kenyan Citizen! What's wrong? He is not a child of two U. S. Citizens! DISQUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
It is obvious that our Congress is complicit in this fraud by the sheer act of their failure to remove Obama from office! We all make our super-intelligent observations that he is trying to make us a Marxist Nation - a Communist Nation - a Socialist Nation, etc. etc. How long will we rant and comment on these theories! We are ALL WRONG! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! Those labels are not his goal! These "systems" are his means.... his method to weaken us, bankrupt us, destroy us, and take over America!
His only goal is to make us a MUSLIM CALIPHATE with SHARIA LAW! I am convinced that we have never, ever understood the purpose of FAST AND FURIOUS! Under the guise of our thoughts that it was to sell arms to the drug lords in Mexico, Obama, et al, were able to arm the muslim terrorists who cross our borders daily! This removal of our borders to allow free movement has brought in countless millions of muslims, terrorists, who have set up camps and training centers within our borders! These muslims have busily built mosques everywhere! They have set up centers within our schools, our colleges and our universities! They are "in place" throughout our government! They pretty much run the day to day operations of much of the Immigration Service! They run the taxis in most major cities... They run the hotels and motels throughout our country! The baggage handlers and much of the staff of our Airports are muslim workers. Obama's right hand is an active Iranian muslim, Valerie Jarrett! Clinton's right hand, Huma Abedin, is an active muslim Brotherhood person! The muslims have taken over large parts of Michigan, as well as many other states! Hey fellow American citizens, WE ARE AT WAR!
In the words of Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address, "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure" WE ARE AT WAR! We must organize! This election is unimportant! Obama will not leave office without a fight! If he loses, He will declare a National Emergency and institute "Martial Law" but he will retain office! Believe me! NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD CITIZENS TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY" Skip the elections and politics as usual! Let's begin with honest, constant prayer for the Hand of God to guide us! Let's unite and circulate petitions within Congress that cannot be ignored! If they do not act quickly, let's find a General or a group of Generals within our military who will muster the troops and step in and remove the whole gang and take over our government until honest elections can be run! These United States Military are "Our guys" They have sworn to uphold the United States Constitution! These are our brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, families! Let's be a real "Tea Party"! Again, in the words of President Lincoln, "we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
That chair is not empty. It is filled to overflowing with evil. Pure evil. Obama knows what he is doing and he enjoys orchestrating the destruction of America. He needs to be pulled out of that chair prior to the election, because if he is not removed for being an illegal alien, with absolutely no proof of U.S. citizenship before the election, Obama will still have from November till January to destroy us some more. This election is a farce, because there is plenty of proof now that Obama does not meet the requirements to remain in office. The entire Republican Party needs to stand up and demand proof before this election. They know it, and they are ignoring the most basic fact according to the Constitution they swore to honor and obey. He has come out of the closet against Christians. If we do not want to find ourselves in the position Germany found themselves in with Hitler, someone better do something fast!