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The REAL Questions Are Still About Benghazi, NOT the Petraeus Sex Scandal

Nov. 13, 2012 2:41pm

Monica Crowley, Ph.D., is a Fox News Contributor, host of the nationally syndicated “Monica Crowley Show,” and the author of What the (Bleep) Just […]

Monica Crowley, Ph.D., is a Fox News Contributor, host of the nationally syndicated “Monica Crowley Show,” and the author of What the (Bleep) Just Happened? The Happy Warrior’s Guide to the Great American Comeback.

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The sex scandal is merely the diversion. Of course, everyone is fascinated by the salacious details and intriguing personalities involved in the latest scandal involving sex. In this case, people are riveted by the extramarital affair between America’s once-golden General, David Petraeus, and his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Since that story exploded last Friday afternoon, there has been a steady drip-drip-drip of new allegations involving another woman (Jill Kelley), an FBI agent who was reportedly thrown off the original case for “growing obsessed” with Kelley and sending her “shirtless” photos of himself to her, and the Commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, General John Allen, who reportedly sent Kelley tens of thousands of “potentially inappropriate” emails. He is now under investigation as well.

Wonder why we’re getting a drip-drip-drip of wild new details every day? To keep us distracted. The sex scandal is a mess, but it’s not the mess that matters.

What matters is what happened in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including two Navy SEALS, a longtime foreign service officer, and the personal representative of the President of the United States, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Here are a few of the critical questions that REALLY matter:

1. As has been reported by Aaron Klein and others, the U.S. compound in Benghazi was NOT a consulate. It was a “mission” of some sort, and it looks increasingly likely that the CIA was running the show there. What was the CIA doing in Benghazi?

2. What were Stevens and the others doing at that CIA mission late into the evening?

3. Before he was killed that fateful night, Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods rescued scores of Americans from the compound. Who were they? What were they doing in Benghazi?

4. Woods sprung into action to try to save the Ambassador and others despite being given the order to “stand down.” Who gave the “stand down” order? Did Obama approve it?

5. Who repeatedly denied their requests for help as they were under attack? Who was watching the attack unfold in real time back in Washington?

6. Who dreamt up the fiction that the attack was inspired by some obscure video? And who sent out top administration officials, including U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and CIA Director David Petraeus, among others, to spin and perpetuate the fiction—for weeks?

7. MOST IMPORTANTLY: What is this administration REALLY covering up?

A) Did this administration secretly sell or give weapons to al Qaeda and other Islamists operating under the “Libyan rebel” banner?

B) Was Stevens running a CIA operation to reacquire those weapons from al Qaeda for two purposes: to prevent it from being known that the U.S. was arming our mortal terrorist enemy, and/or to transfer those weapons to the equally odious al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, and other Islamist “rebels” in Syria?

C) Jennifer Griffin of Fox News—who has done outstanding investigative work on this story—reported yesterday that part of the CIA mission in Benghazi was actually a detention facility in which scores of prisoners were being kept from all across the Middle East and Africa. She reported that it was the “largest” such facility the CIA was operating. The CIA immediately issued a denial, saying that it has not operated such a detention facility since January 2009, when newly sworn-in President Obama signed an executive order outlawing such facilities. Did Benghazi, in fact, house a terrorist prison?

D) If Griffin’s reporting is correct and Benghazi WAS a detention facility, did Obama know about/sign off on it? Or was this a rogue CIA operation?

E) Griffin also reported that the prisoners held there were moved 2 weeks before the attack on September 11. Did the CIA get a sense an attack was
coming to try to free the prisoners there?

F) In a public speech on October 26, Paula Broadwell stated that the Benghazi mission WAS, in fact, holding prisoners. How did she get that information? It seems to back up Griffin’s reporting.

G) If it WERE, in fact, a detention facility, were interrogations occurring? If so, what was the nature of those interrogations?

This is just the starting point for the REAL questions that MUST be asked—and answered—by this administration.

It’s not about the sex. It’s about what was REALLY going on in Benghazi and what Team Obama is REALLY covering up. If Benghazi were a terrorist detention facility—and possibly engaging in enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs)—then Obama has quite the policy scandal on his hands.

After all, Obama retained most of President Bush’s counter-terrorism programs….with the exception of detention and EITs. Could it be that Obama and/or the CIA were still carrying out those policies?

This is just the beginning. Get ready for a roller-coaster ride of epic proportions. The families of Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and Sean Smith deserve the TRUTH….and so do we.

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Comments (13)

allandwd
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 10:13am
So many questions, so few answers….and another four years. The most un-transparent president and admin this country has ever seen…

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IWILLNOTSTANDDOWN
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:56am
Guess what guys? It’s up to you to demand answers. McCain is begging for people to back him up on demanding a select committee. The problem is really that we have many people who know the truth but are unwilling to stand up for it. As the Churchill saying goes, you better stand up while you still have a chance to win, rather than wait till there is no hope of winning.

This administration is using psychological warfare on you, the people. Who ever saw that coming? The founding fathers did not have pop culture so we need to understand what is going on here. The founding fathers did not have our pop culture, but people are people, and they do have things to say about this problem because they understood what we have forgotten about man,(thanks to the humanism).

Stand up, demand answers. What do you have to lose? If you are afraid to stand up now then we are already in deep trouble.

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DallasLawManFred
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:50am
Dear Candy Crowley:

Jennifer Griffin of Faux News claims to have sources on the ground in Benghazi during the attack who claim the CIA chain of command ordered the rescue team to stand down. Since you work for Faux, why don’t you just ask Jennifer Griffin to ask her sources who gave the orders?

I suspect that you know, as well as I do, that Griffin fabricated the story.

Thank you.

Fred

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- phillycornerboy
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:11pm
  it is irrelevent if her story is bogus or not. the FACTS are…4 dead Americans and NO help was sent. where was the help? why did NO ONE help them. why did WE abandon our own people to die at the hands of our enemies. and STILL to this day, what has been done? nothing. does that clear it up for you?
  
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phillycornerboy
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:31am
here’s what you do. call/e-mail the msm daily/weekly and ask for answers, explainations. do the same with every government rep you have in washington. call in to talk shows on the right and left. inform, use facts, know your position and advance it. act, do, communicate, advocate.

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revelation2012
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 11:06pm
Full disclosure of the Benghazi situation would expose an agenda that would surprise
many Americans and answer a lot of questions about what’s really going on in the world,
even offering explanations for such issues as Obama’s low-bow to the Saudi Royals
to the exposure of a plan for the global power structure. It’s that big and that revealing,
and that important.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50824

interesting read:

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- imsteph
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:52pm
  interesting read…
  
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foxrocks
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 10:27pm
Yes maam, Monica you got it right……….The Bengahzi cover up is the issue, this is a smokescreen to divert the American people from the truth…..and I think it’s worse than we think. I pray that we can get to the bottom of this scandal, before all the evidence is destroyed, and the players resign and hide out, like Hillary on a wine tasting mission….WTF??? So many unanswered questions, and these are American lives lost, apparently due to ignoring requests for help, by who knows. Patella, Patreaus, Obama, Clinton, Holder, they are all liars and should be called in by Congress to testify of what they knew, and somebody needs to go to jail for treason here………
These poor families deserve the TRUTH……….. GOD Bless these families at this time of sorrow, and let’s pray to God for the truth to come out soon…….!!!!!

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MoReport
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 9:33pm
The claims in the Sex Scandal rival the original bogus Benghazi excuse in incredibility;
Who did what to whom, and who got played ? Congress is the Grand Inquest of the nation;
They should follow all the threads in this web of lies and misdirection wherever they lead.

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Jennifer_D
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 9:28pm
Monica,

Your commentary is right on. The Petraeus scandal is a pony show meant to distract the public from Benghazi. Imagine if what happened in Benghazi had occurred while George Bush was president. We would definitely have answers to the questions you outlined above and we would have had them yesterday. It is sad for those that lost loved ones in the Benghazi attack to have no closure or answers to their questions. It is disgusting when nasty photoshops of PB’s book garner more attention than getting serious answers to what happened to the ambassador and others.

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snowshooze
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 9:05pm
I am still awaiting the interviews with the Benghazi Survivors.
Where are they? Are the Survivors locked up somewhere, or 6′ under???
What, there were 30 or so of them?
You would have to assume ONE of them would drop a dime.

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surfcitysocal
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 8:53pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is what I’ve been saying since the Petraeus business broke: it’s a smokescreen to keep the attention off Benghazi.

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RETIREDLAWMAN
Posted on November 13, 2012 at 5:44pm
I wonder if the weapons used to kill Stevens, Smith and the retired SEALS were supplied by our government. Fast and Furious, the African version.

Also the State Department officials testified that there were only 3 armed protective agents assigned to Bengahzi. Stevens brought 2 more armed agents from Tripoli. Even if there were only 2 or 3 of them armed and watching the gate the video protesters stormed through they could have laid down quite a bit of firepower and at least slowed them down until the other armed agents scrambled to help. Where were the 5 armed agents at the time of the attack? Why was the entrance gate left unguarded?

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