FOX News: Yes, prisoners held at the Libya CIA Annex in Benghazi - and Petraus affair began EARLIER

[anobserver2]

....According to multiple intelligence sources who have served in Benghazi, there were more than just Libyan militia members who were held and interrogated by CIA contractors at the CIA annex in the days prior to the attack. Other prisoners from additional countries in Africa and the Middle East were brought to this location.

The Libya annex was the largest CIA station in North Africa, and two weeks prior to the attack, the CIA was preparing to shut it down. Most prisoners, according to British and American intelligence sources, had been moved two weeks earlier.

The CIA, though, categorically denied these allegations, saying: “The CIA has not had detention authority since January 2009, when Executive Order 13491 was issued. Any suggestion that the agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless.”

Broadwell’s affair with Petraeus was likely known to Holly Petraeus, according to family friends. The FBI reportedly knew about it months beforehand and White House Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan reportedly was aware that there was a relationship as early as the summer of 2011.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/12/petraeus-mistress-may-have-revealed-classified-information-at-denver-speech/#ixzz2C4Sy7DK5

[BainsBane]

1. Sounds plausible

even though it is Fox, which makes me automatically assume it's a lie.

[anobserver2]

2. Well, I don't know what to believe - but an earlier affair, in military, would be a crime

I don't know why FOX would be the ones reporting all this, if any of what they are reporting is true.
Isn't Petraus a Republican?

Because this FOX News article makes it sound pretty bad for Petraus.

[aletier_v]

3. The trick is the right mixture of truth and lie

I think the affair began earlier, too,
much earlier, but the date is important, legally.

[Live and Learn]

4. Okay, here we go. The WH denies Brennan knew and accuses Faux News of irresponsible

reporting. Faux News doesn't answer that accusation but instead posts:

All of this raises the question: What was the CIA really doing in Benghazi in addition to searching for Qaddafi’s stash of more than 22,000 shoulder-held missiles that could bring down commercial airplanes, and who in the White House knew exactly what the CIA was up to?

[anobserver2]

5. Maybe the CIA was acting like a rogue CIA

Maybe that rogue factor is why FOX was all over this story - they knew it was all rogue?
But they want to somehow blame it all on Obama?
I don't know.

[Live and Learn]

6. The only sure thing is that we know Faux News will attempt to blame Obama.

I don't believe for a minute that Obama would cover up for Petraeus though. That would be quite a hard sell. Looks like they are going after whatever nefarious things the CIA was doing in Benghazi and hoping that Obama can be blamed for them.

[kelliekat44]

7. I have no doubts that there are rougue elements in both the CIA and FBI who would rather report

to the Republicans in Congress than the President.

[Puregonzo1188]

8. Honestly given what we know about the CIA and our country's foreign policy this isn't surprising

and fairly disturbing.

I still don't understand why the right is angry about this--this seems to be the kind of thing they'd love.

And I also don't get what the controversy is where Obama should be impeached/resign.

[spanone]

9. faux has no credibility on benghazi

[Honeycombe8]

10. Fox News is a rightwingnut site. Do you have a link to a real source?

Fox "Romney is going to win in a landslide" News is a rightwingnut site that is known for misinformation. It is NEVER cited here as a serious source of news.

[Azathoth]

11. Oh, this is delicious. The CIA lied about the motivation for the attack in order to prevent

people from learning about its clandestine anti-terrorism/detention operations. No wonder Romney ran away from this issue as soon as he started receiving classified briefings. The RWNJs who have been obsessively trying to turn Benghazi into a scandal have now succeeded in proving:

A) The Obama admin is capable of engaging in the same kind of shadowy, hard-ass anti-terrorism activities that right-wingers used to masturbate to during the Dubya years. So much for Obama's "apology tour"

B) The right wing, and particularly Faux, are now traitors for exposing vital anti-terrorism operations for pure, wild-eyed partisan gain. I guess it's only "vital national security" when a Republican does it