Is State Department taking the rap to protect a CIA op in Libya?

[mainer]

This veteran Foreign Service Officer seems to imply as much:

– The attack did not target Stevens. Indeed, famously, his body was only pulled from the ruins of the Consulate by a secondary crowd. Whether the crowd abused the body or dragged it to a hospital, it clearly had no idea or concern for who it held. The Consulate attackers went for documents, and ignored the Ambassador. Stevens just happened to be there, wrong place, wrong time.

– Half the US personnel evacuated out of Benghazi were CIA. While it is common knowledge that the CIA stations personnel abroad, it seems very unusual to have half a mission’s complement to be Agency. The New York Times reports that though the Agency has been cooperating with the new post-Qaddafi Libyan intelligence service, the size of the CIA’s presence in Benghazi apparently surprised some Libyan leaders. The deputy prime minister, Mustafa Abushagour, was quoted in The Wall Street Journal last week saying that he learned about some of the delicate American operations in Benghazi only after the attack on the mission, in large part because a surprisingly large number of Americans showed up at the Benghazi airport to be evacuated.

– In its reporting on the large number of CIA personnel in Benghazi, the New York Times agreed to withhold locations and details of Agency operations at the request of Obama administration officials, who said that disclosing such information could jeopardize future sensitive government activities and put at risk American personnel working in dangerous settings.


http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2012/09/26/ambassador-stevens-in-libya-just-wrong-cia-place-wrong-time/

[Vincardog]

1. I heard that it attack was in response to a drone attack. If the CIA did the attack this tracks.

[underthematrix]

2. it's more complicated than that - the media needs to leave

it alone. It's not what it seems.

[mainer]

5. The media can't leave it alone because Issa and the GOP won't.

That's the irony of it all. The GOP will shine every bright light on the Company just to make a political point.

And "it's more complicated than that" implies you know a lot more than you're telling us.

[libdem4life]

3. I am getting so tired of this same-old, same-old ... we go in and "liberate" where we don't belong

shake up who gets paid what, and then spend decades and trillions and most of all shattered lives, homes and communities. (here and there) Then trot off to another cluster f### after we've won their hearts and minds...not.

Anti-war ... just for the heck of it or just because we can? Guilty as hell.

[mainer]

4. Having been in-country in Libya...

I saw the situation there and was against our intervention there from the start. This, unfortunately, is the predictable result of toppling Ghadafi.

For the past few months, I've been hoping I'd be proven wrong and that Libya would actually make a peaceful transition. But it's gotten to the point that I'm unhappily starting to mutter "I told you so."

I do remember all the pro-interventionists posting here on DU telling me I didn't know what I was talking about, and how great it would all be after Ghadafi was gone.

[TBF]

6. Yup - agree with this view.

I haven't visited this country, but you can look at the map of the middle east and top of Africa and see our "strategy" in action. It is nothing to do with democracy but everything to do with profits/power.