[Peace-discuss] The Benghazi Scandal Is "Obama's Watergate" But Worse

Thu Jan 1 16:43:16 EST 2015

The Benghazi Scandal Is "Obama's Watergate" But Worse

By  <http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/hagopian> Joachim Hagopian

Global Research, June 14, 2014

Theme:  <http://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/media-disinformation> Media
Disinformation

Description: obamalies

For more than three years now America and Saudi Arabia have been sponsoring
and funding al Qaeda affiliated militia groups from all over the Middle East
and North Africa 

A trail of
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/04/29/benghazi-emails-point-a
t-white-house/8471737/> emails released Tuesday appears to shed yet more
light on the Benghazi cover-up story that continues to nag President Obama
and then Secretary of State and current Democratic presidential hopeful
Hillary Clinton. The latest exposure indicates that both Obama and Clinton
knew that UN Secretary Susan Rice's claim to the press that the attack on
the Benghazi compound killing Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens and
three other Americans was due to an anti-Muslim youtube video was a complete
lie. This latest piece of incriminating evidence is what Republicans are now
calling their "smoking gun" despite months that have stretched into years of
the Congressional investigation led by Representative
<http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/02/21/3316471/darrell-issa-ignores-coll
eagues-benghazi-report-attack-hillary-clinton/> Darrel Issa (R-CA). His so
called investigation that was supposed to uncover the truth behind that
fateful day of September 11th, 2012 has often been labeled "a witch hunt" by
Democrats and supporters of Obama and Hillary Clinton.

This week's news may be the needed breakthrough that will ultimately lead to
the unveiling of what many critics of the Obama administration have been
claiming all along. And that is Obama and Hillary purposely withheld the
truth from the American public for fear that it would derail
<http://americaswatchtower.com/2013/02/17/benghazi-the-real-motive-behind-th
e-terrorist-attack-and-the-reasons-for-the-cover-up/> Obama's reelection
less than two months after the death of the four Americans in Benghazi. In
retrospect now Obama's rush to war in Syria last September is far better
understood when taking a hard look at the 2012 Benghazi embassy attack.

In 2007 retired General Wesley
<http://www.salon.com/2011/11/26/wes_clark_and_the_neocon_dream/> Clark
revealed a neocon plan he became privy to a couple weeks after 9/11 of the
ambitious Bush administration agenda to take down seven sovereign
governments in the next five years that included Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan,
Somalia, Libya, Syria and Iran.

With gusto President Obama inherited this same agenda and proceeded to
finish the job in removing Libya's longtime dictator Gaddafi. And so began
the NATO air
<http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2011/may/23/libya-nato
-bombing-no-fly-zone> bombardment of Libya killing many innocent victims
that softened the resistance to an all out assault on Gaddafi's military
forces largely spearheaded by
<http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/25/before-he-was-overthrown-and-killed
-libyan-dictator-muammar-gaddafi-warned-jihadists-would-conquer-northern-afr
ica/> al Qaeda mercenaries from all over the Middle East as well as native
Libyan al Qaeda affiliated militia groups, some from Benghazi.

In the spring of 2011 even prior to Gaddafi's capture and killing, as an
envoy to the rebel coalition the future Libyan Ambassador Christopher
Stevens was sent to
<http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201211/sean-flynn-j-christopher-
stevens-benghazi-libya-ambassador> Benghazi, a city in eastern Libya that
has long been a hotbed of Islamic extremism that includes various Al Qaeda
affiliated groups and militias. Stevens spoke Arabic and had twenty years of
foreign diplomatic service experience when he was selected to become the
Ambassador after the fall of the Gaddafi government. The State Department
resent him to work back in Benghazi rather than the Libyan capitol Tripoli
to assist the area's transition to the new puppet government the US had
installed. But because Benghazi and eastern Libya had a history of resisting
national governance, Stevens faced an uphill struggle and near impossible
task. Beginning in June of 2012, a full three months prior to the Benghazi
embassy compound attack that killed the Ambassador and three other
Americans, Stevens' requests for
<http://americaswatchtower.com/2013/02/17/benghazi-the-real-motive-behind-th
e-terrorist-attack-and-the-reasons-for-the-cover-up/> increased security
began falling on deaf ears in Washington. Stevens' boss, Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, failed to heed any of his increasingly urgent calls. Just
days prior to the embassy onslaught, the British consulate had been attacked
and all its diplomatic staff were safely evacuated away.

Last year efforts to blame Stevens for irresponsibly
<http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/01/23/hicks-chris-stevens-didnt-turn-mili
tary-protection/> turning down security offered in Benghazi were anonymously
leaked, insisting that the ambassador twice had turned down offers of
increased military security from AFRICOM commander General Ham.

For obvious reasons the now retired general refuses to discuss what he knew
or did not know of the events leading up to the Benghazi attack. However,
throughout the aftermath of the Americans' deaths, Stevens' own deputy
ambassador Gregory Hicks in Tripoli has maintained that he never knew of any
such alleged offers made to Stevens for more security.

Since the strategy targeting Ambassador Stevens as the sole reason for the
lack of security at his embassy compound clearly backfired, a whitewashed
report was released last year by the
<http://www.whatthefolly.com/2012/12/19/transcript-admiral-mike-mullens-rema
rks-on-the-arbs-report-on-the-benghazi-consulate-attack/> Accountability
Review Board. The two men behind this report are Hillary's buddies
Ambassador Pickering and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullens. Thus
no surprise that they decided from the outset that it would not be necessary
to even bother to interview Hillary, satisfied to blame it on lower level
State Department bureaucrats' error in judgment not to supply adequate
security. The alleged failure to authorize proper military security was
because the Benghazi compound was relegated to being a temporary outpost. Of
course this is just another feeble attempt to shield Queen Hillary who sent
Stevens herself to Benghazi fully aware of it being an al Qaeda trouble
spot.

But Benghazi under the cover of the State Department was ideal for the
covert CIA and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) needed to coordinate
arms smuggling that
<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line>
Obama, Hillary and then CIA Director Petraeus were knee deep in. Stevens
ultimately may have felt he was being used as the convenient decoy for the
clandestine activity he wanted no part of.

Years earlier as a former Peace Corps volunteer and a seasoned career
diplomat, becoming a lookout for an immoral criminal gun running operation
may not have been what he had signed on for as the Libyan Ambassador. Thus,
he very likely voiced his objection to what his bosses in Washington were
misusing him for, and as vindictive and petty as Obama and Hillary are,
Stevens was likely punished for not going along with their program. Hence,
all his urgent pleas that began as early as June 2012, a full three months
prior to the September attack, requesting increased security were ignored,
including his desperate cry for help moments before his murder on the night
of the 11th. Meanwhile, as he and three other Americans lay dying, back in
the States Obama was flying out West to another high brow fundraiser so he
could self-servingly get reelected.

What is most certain is that this trouble spot region was the hub of
activity for special ops units comprised of special forces and a large
number of CIA operatives in conjunction with British MI6. The CIA safely
defended annex in Benghazi a mere mile and a half from the embassy compound
was the largest CIA station in North Africa. The annex housed 35 CIA
personnel responsible for coordinating the large
<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line>
arms smuggling operation to Syria, circumventing Congress by calling the CIA
mission a liaison operation.

Two former special ops operatives Brandon Webb and Jack Murphy, authors of '
<http://extremeprejudiceusa.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/benghazi-the-definitive
-report/> Benghazi: The Definitive Report,' have since claimed that a
bureaucratic breakdown in communication between CIA and JSOC caused local
Benghazi radicals to attack and kill Americans on 9/11/12. They believe that
just days before an assassination carried out by Special Operations of a
popular Libyan CIA informant had angered an al Qaeda affiliated militia
called Ansar al-Sharia to launch the attack as retribution. The former
Special Ops boys, one of whom was friends with one of the killed Americans
Glen Doherty, speculated that the root cause of the American embassy deaths
was the result of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing in
the over-compartmentalized, ultra-guarded secrecy of competing clandestine
intelligence operations and that this problem commonly serves as a major
barrier and significant dysfunction of American foreign policy in general.
They believe the Ambassador was probably only peripherally aware of the high
presence of CIA and JSOC operations in the area but was never directly
involved or looped in.

This claim appears to be a disinformation ploy to again absolve the higher
ups Obama and Clinton of any responsibility. It did little to quiet the
conjecture surrounding the attack that Stevens knew too much and had become
a thorn in the side of the hierarchical status quo.

On October 26th, 2012 a mere two weeks prior to the David Petraeus-Paula
Broadwell affair broke as the scandalous headlines, Broadwell hyping her
'All In' biography of the general spoke at the University of Denver
divulging her inside
<http://www.crescent-online.net/2012/11/petraeus-mistress-makes-stunning-dis
closure-about-benghazi-attack-3436-articles.html> scoop on the Benghazi
attack that had taken place a month and a half earlier. She claimed the
attack on the compound was probable payback for CIA detaining local members
from the same Libyan militia responsible for the assault. Or that the
attackers may have been attempting to free their prisoners. Though only one
news reporter from Fox paid any attention to Paula at the time, once their
tryst was exposed a short time afterwards, much speculation raised the issue
that Broadwell unwittingly revealed classified information that could well
have been leaked through her intimacy with the then CIA Director. That the
mistress was privy to such insider lowdown compromising sensitive US
intelligence operations headquartered at the CIA Benghazi annex is a very
real possibility, especially since classified documents were later uncovered
at her North Carolina home.

In view of the CIA's fervent denial that any prisoners were detained in
Benghazi and Obama's January 2009 executive order outlawing the CIA business
of holding prisoners, Paula shooting her mouth off as an insider know-it-all
implicated her lover Petraeus and his CIA as criminals engaging in an
unlawful operation. But then that illegal activity amounts to small peanuts
in comparison to the much bigger crime being committed by her lover CIA boss
Petraeus and his crime bosses Obama and Hillary for using the same Libyan al
Qaeda militants who murdered the four Americans on 9/11/12 to smuggle guns
from Benghazi across international borders to be used against Assad in
Syria.

Despite Ambassador Stevens' repeated requests for more security, it was
never given. So when about 150 members of the local militia Ansar al-Sharia
stormed the gates of the compound carrying machine guns and rocket propelled
grenades (RPG's), the handful of unarmed Libyan security contractors
instantly fled and soon enough the building was engulfed in flames. The
nearby annex in Benghazi where thirty-five CIA operatives worked was called
during the crisis to assist those Americans at the embassy. CIA security
officer Tyrone Woods convinced his supervisor at the annex with five other
security personnel to rush to the embassy's aid. Both Woods and Glen Doherty
were former Navy Seals commandos who died from bullet wounds at the second
attack at the annex killed by a mortar after Sean Smith, an information
officer, and Ambassador Stevens had already died from smoke inhalation.
President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and CIA Director Petraeus were
all informed of the crisis unfolding during the afternoon local Washington
time. Yet they chose to not even bother contacting the Marines stationed in
the capital Tripoli, allegedly figuring they would take too long to arrive
on the scene in Benghazi. So after ignoring the Ambassador's pleas urging
for more security for three straight months, they coldly refused to order
any further military assistance at the time the four Americans lost their
lives.

Instead they ordered UN Ambassador Susan Rice to later lie to the American
public claiming that the attack was instigated by that anti-Moslem youtube
video. Under the increasing pressure of Benghazi questions, suddenly Hillary
keeled over with a brain clot to conveniently dodge any more heat. And of
course Petraeus was soon engulfed in scandal with his mistress Broadwell,
retiring from the CIA and out of sight for months thereafter, conveniently
ducking from his hot seat. And then soon enough Clinton was resigning as
Secretary of State, evading any further scrutiny as the Ambassador's boss
most responsible for the deaths of the four Americans.

Another piece of incriminating evidence is that the
<http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/04/world/africa/libya-fbi-benghazi/index.html>
FBI team sent in to investigate the Benghazi murders never even arrived at
the crime scene until three weeks after the attack, making sure that vital
forensic evidence could be conveniently lost, confiscated or destroyed.
Despite having videotape that allowed individual attackers to be identified
by name, they all still remain free to this day. Eleven months after the
attack the US Justice Department last August in a hollow gesture officially
charged the alleged suspects in a
<http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-we-have-sealed-indictment-benghazi-te
rrorists> sealed indictment. But without them in custody, it means nothing.

Clinton strategically figured she would lay low long enough out of the
public spotlight to effectively distance herself from Benghazi to make
another run for President in 2016. But while briefly still back on the job
and those nagging Benghazi questions weren't going away fast enough, she
completely lost it, screaming, "What difference at this point does it make?"
- obviously all the difference in the world to her and her buddy Barrack. On
9/11 the year before last, Obama, Clinton and Petraeus sacrificed four
American lives that day to preserve their own careers as powerful evil
despots who with blind ambition would stop at nothing to remain in power.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton have both gone to great lengths to make
sure that their cover-up concealing the truth never gets exposed. With the
attack taking place less than two months prior to Obama's reelection, they
are determined that the truth never sees the light of day. However, big
cracks are looming in their wall of defense and their lies are falling like
a house of cards. Mounting evidence indicates both Obama and Clinton were
engaged in a highly covert and illicit arms smuggling operation moving
weapons from Libya through Turkey to the anti-Assad rebels in Syria. And at
stake for Obama and Clinton was their future plans to win the presidential
election in 2012 and 2016.

On August 2nd, 2013 three full weeks prior to the sarin gas attack in the
Damascus suburb killing scores of Syrian civilians including children, UK's
Telegraph reporter
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/102182
88/CIA-running-arms-smuggling-team-in-Benghazi-when-consulate-was-attacked.h
tml> Damien McElroy wrote an article asserting that Obama and Hillary are
guilty as charged, engaging in a gun-running operation that included surface
to air missiles and even chemical weapons speculating that a "false flag
operation" might occur as a deceptive ploy to make false accusations against
Assad. Again, this article came out three weeks PRIOR to Obama accusing
Assad of using chemical weapons. No coincidence in the timing. Since then
renowned investigative reporter
<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line>
Seymour Hersh who broke the My Lai massacre story and cover-up during the
Vietnam War and a host of other journalists have since provided convincing
evidence that the chemical attack last August was committed by US backed al
Qaeda rebels.

And those 35 CIA agents stationed at the nearby Benghazi annex, word came
out that every month since the event they have been required to undergo
polygraph tests just to ensure they keep quiet. One insider even told
<http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01/exclusive-dozens-of-cia-operatives-
on-the-ground-during-benghazi-attack/?hpt=hp_t4> CNN last year, "You
jeopardize your family as well if you talk to anyone about what happened."

Aside from Obama, Hillary and Petraeus evading accountability at all cost,
what is most incriminating is that the very same Al Qaeda jihadists armed,
financed and supported with American taxpayer dollars during the Libyan
regime-change are the exact same individuals who have gotten away with
murdering those four Americans in Benghazi. For more than three years now
America and Saudi Arabia have been sponsoring and funding al Qaeda
affiliated militia groups from all over the Middle East and North Africa
fighting Assad forces in Syria in the latest regime-change war. When the
murders went down on 9/11/12, Hillary's State Department had been acting as
a cover supporting al Qaeda elements smuggling arms to Syria to fight in
that so called civil war. Much of Gaddafi's huge stash of arms had been
looted, falling into the hands of American-backed rebel forces in Libya,
including chemical weapons that were never accounted for. By pure accident,
the Benghazi tragedy reveals the ongoing war by proxy that the US, Saudi
Arabia and Israel have been waging against Syria and its strongest allies
Iran and Russia.

As a side note, ex-CIA Director Petraeus was allowed to retain his full
status as a retired four star general at full pay despite committing
adultery while still serving as Afghanistan War commander when military
personnel of lower rank are customarily demoted and forced to retire at a
lower pension rate for the exact same offense of adultery. Mistress Paula
Broadwell also suffered no formal consequence regarding her retention rank
as major in the US Army Reserves. It seems obvious that Petraeus has been
rewarded for his loyal silence on the Benghazi incident. Additionally,
several days after Petraeus ducked out of sight in disgrace after resigning
as CIA Director, Petraeus' wife as the victim of his adulterous affair was
suddenly being promoted by Obama to a new cushy
<http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-administration-gave-petraeuss-wife-18
7605-year-job> position made especially for her earning near Petraeus'
retirement pension of $200,000 per year.

Then just over a week after his CIA resignation Petraeus was called in to
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/16/us-usa-benghazi-idUSBRE8AF03L2012
1116> testify before the House Intelligence Committee but given a free pass
in his not having to testify under a sworn oath to disclose the full truth
of what he knew. So he proceeded to lie before Congress claiming that he
consistently said that an al Qaeda affiliated militia group was behind the
attack. In fact Petraeus secretly flew to Libya immediately after the attack
and upon his return to the US a couple days later Petraeus held the official
administration line they knew to be false that the Benghazi attack was due
to the bogus anti-Moslem video. Of course with the scandal causing his own
presidential ambitions to be thoroughly shattered, Petraeus more recently
has gone on public record stating that Hillary Clinton would make "an
excellent president." Clearly he is towing the line as a good little boy for
keeping his mouth shut for Hillary and Barrack.

Obama lied when he promised to ensure that those guilty of the attack would
be brought to justice. Now going on two years later not one of the attackers
has even been apprehended or arrested. With the murderers in the Benghazi
assault still at large, many of the attackers afterwards moved on with the
arms they were helping to smuggle to join US-supported rebel forces fighting
the Assad government in Syria. They may have been silenced by now, secretly
killed by judge, jury and executioner President Obama in his lust to kill
his enemies with drone missile attacks. In any event, rest assure none of
the perpetrators behind the Benghazi attack will ever be captured alive or
prosecuted. They simply know too much. Last 9/11/13 barely a peep was heard
from the mainstream media on the very first anniversary of the Benghazi
tragedy. The reason is all too obvious.

Many of the family members of the murdered Americans felt that Obama and his
administration were responsible for their loved ones deaths. Some complained
about Obama's condolences as brusk, insincere and insensitive. They were
disturbed further with Obama's response on a
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_2K5m59-GE> 60 Minutes segment in late
January 2013. Obama and Hillary were answering questions about Benghazi when
Obama quoted Defense Secretary Robert Gates, "At this moment somewhere,
somehow, somebody in the federal government's screwing up" as he turned to
Hillary laughing at his joke about their Benghazi screw-up that killed four
Americans. They also had to be upset hearing the president on another
occasion callously dismissing the Benghazi tragedy as "a sideshow."

Not surprisingly, the US installed puppet government in Libya has been of no
assistance in its
<http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22332503/suspect-benghazi-attack-is-freed-lac
k-evidence> lack of cooperation with revealing any further details of the
attack. Last June the chaos, lawlessness and terror in Benghazi only
continued as
<http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_06_09/31-die-in-anti-militia-attack-in-L
ibya-0331/> thirty-one Libyans protesting their grievances against an al
Qaeda militia group were brutally massacred outside the al Qaeda
headquarters. The entire eastern region of Libya today is still not under
control of the national government, which has largely been taken over by US
backed al Qaeda affiliates. Libya today is in complete shambles steeped in
corruption, instability and violence.

Meanwhile, the two American criminals most responsible for the attack,
President Obama and presidential heir-apparent Hilary Clinton need to be
held accountable for their crimes along with their other partner-in-crime
General Petraeus. With the belated truth behind Benghazi slowly coming out,
Obama should be impeached and Hillary must never become president.
Ironically the crime of Nixon's Watergate cover-up that brought down the
first and only president in US history forced to resign in disgrace pales in
comparison to the crimes committed by the likes of the Obama administration.

Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former Army officer. His
written manuscript based on his military experience examines leadership and
national security issues and can be consulted at
<http://www.redredsea.net/westpointhagopian/>
http://www.redredsea.net/westpointhagopian/. After the military, Joachim
earned a masters degree in psychology and became a licensed therapist
working in the mental health field for more than a quarter century. He now
focuses on writing.

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