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theprof00 said:
badgenome said:
Ckmlb1 said:

 

I can think of another:

CIA wanted it to appear as if we were not mobilizing our forces against a known group. 'No, no, we were sure it was because of a protest', the machinegunner said, standing in the rubble of the group hq. So the CIA pushed the video story.

We now know for sure that most of the people in the consulate were CIA. I think 20 out of the 30 that were evacuated were CIA and 2 of the 4 that died. There's also been reporting in the media about the CIA working to collect weapons like surface to air shoulder held missile launchers from local militias and that might have spurred action by the Ansar Al Sharia too because they were one of many local armed groups (militias) in addition to being a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda. 

http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/15/analysis-cia-role-in-benghazi-underreported/

Also, LA Times is reporting that the information about a protest attack came from the CIA originally. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-na-benghazi-emails-20130516,0,75839.story

Excerpts: "But a senior administration official said Wednesday that Michael Morell, then the acting CIA director, already had decided to remove references to the CIA warnings. The White House released a photocopy of what it said was Morell's hand-marked copy."

"In December, a report by the Senate Homeland Security Committee concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies didn't look hard at "whether a protest had in fact occurred." The CIA's description of a protest in Benghazi was based on "news reports and on other information available to intelligence agencies," the report said."




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