[Peace-discuss] What the Obama-Clinton administration wants to hush up

[C. G. Estabrook]

“The U.S. effort in Benghazi was at its heart a CIA operation, according to the officials who briefed on intelligence.” WSJ, Nov 1, 2012

In spite of the furious attacks by the Democrats and their media sympathizers on Sen. Paul for having the temerity to raise the question to Hillary Clinton, it seems clear what the covert CIA station in Benghazi was doing: shipping heavy arms and jihadist fighters - the sort who'd precipitated the Libyan war - into Syria. The Obama administration's "leading form behind" in trying to shape governments to our liking in Libya and Syria is just old-fashioned US subversion by the CIA and Pentagon. 

This of course has been consistent US practice since the Kennedy administration established death squads in Latin America, 50 years ago. (And the initial US attack on Vietnam in the Kennedy administration grew out of the reluctance of the South Vietnamese to accept the government that the US had picked out for them: that couldn't be allowed to continue, because of the bad example it set. The US chose to kill four million people instead.)

Consider the career of John Negroponte, the first Director of National Intelligence (2005-7). "The Wall Street Journal described him (accurately) as a 'Modern Proconsul,' who learned his craft in Honduras in the 1980s, during the [Reagan administration]. There he was known as 'the proconsul' as he presided over the second largest embassy in Latin America and the largest CIA station in the world - doubtless because Honduras was such a centerpiece of world power. As proconsul, Negroponte's task was to lie to Congress about state terror in Honduras so that the flow of military aid would continue in violation of law, but more importantly, to supervise the bases for the US mercenary army that was attacking Nicaragua, devastating it, and leading to the US becoming the only country in the world to have been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism (technically, 'unlawful use of force'), backed by two Security Council resolutions, which the US vetoed with Britain politely abstaining, then escalating the international terrorist attack. So Negroponte is well-qualified to run the world's largest embassy [in Iraq 2004-5], and probably, again, its largest CIA station..."

There's little doubt that the CIA in Benghazi was engaged in similar activities vis-a-vis Syria, even though it's not clear what in their dirty war prompted the attack on their Benghazi operation. As Alex Cockburn used to say, the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost.

http://www.businessinsider.com/benghazi-stevens-cia-attack-libya-2012-11

--CGE
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