Sent this Vanity Fair article about Benghazi (not to let facts & informed interpretation confuse)
(Note: the excerpts to the local radio talkshow wingnut are far more extensive than shown here.)
with this e-mail to him: I went to a lot of trouble to pick these excerpts from the 5 pages article, once again FUTILELY hoping that you will step outside of your partisan propaganda and let some facts and context get in your way, oh and perhaps EDUCATE your audience instead of REINFORCING their uninformed prejudices, oh well.
Not still talking about Benghazi, but still the IRS, eh?! Are you wingnuts PEAKING TOO SOON with the fake scandals before 2016?!
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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/08/Benghazi-book-fred-burton-samuel-m-katz
[font size=5]The Real Story of Benghazi, a “Landscape Littered with Murders and Betrayals” [/font]
by Fred BURTON and Samuel M. KATZ
Adapted from Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi, by Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz, to be published in September by St. Martin's Press; Copyright 2013 by the authors.
.... Most governments were eager to abandon the danger and intrigue of Benghazi. By September 2012 much of the international community had pulled chocks and left. ... even Iran... ....
But the wave of civilian unrest that swept through the Arab world in the Arab Spring took the region—and the United States—by surprise. ....
All appeared quiet and safe. The feeling of security was enhanced at 2102 hours when an SSC (Supreme Security Council—a coalition of individual and divergently minded Libyan militias) patrol vehicle arrived. ....
The Libyan guards, after all, were not armed.
Suddenly the SSC militiaman behind the steering wheel fired up his engine and headed west... ....
Later, following the attack, according to the (unclassified) Accountability Review Board report, an SSC official said that “he ordered the removal of the car ‘to prevent civilian casualties.’ ” This hints that the SSC knew an attack was imminent; that it did not warn the security assets in the Special Mission Compound implies that it and elements of the new Libyan government were complicit in the events that transpired. ....
...armed men appeared out of nowhere. ....
It was clear that whoever the men who assaulted the compound were, they had been given precise orders and impeccable intelligence. They seemed to know when, where, and how to get from the access points to the ambassador's residence and how to cut off the DS agents as well as the local guard force and the February 17 Martyrs Brigade militiamen on duty that night. As is standard procedure, in the days leading up to the arrival of the ambassador, the regional security officer and his team had made a series of official requests to the Libyan government for additional security support for the mission. It appears that the attackers either intercepted these requests or were tipped off by corrupt Libyan officials. According to one European security official who had worked in Benghazi, “The moment notifications and requests went out to the Libyan Transitional National Council and the militias in advance of Stevens's arrival, it was basically like broadcasting the ambassador's itinerary at Friday prayers for all to hear.” ....
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...Real Stanky Scuzzbucket SlimeSucking Scandals (R).
