The REAL Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don't Want You to Know Read Online Free

at “secret locations,” American intelligence officers “helped the Arab governments shop for weapons” and vet rebel commanders and groups “to determine who should receive the weapons as they arrive.” The CIA declined to comment to the
Times
on the shipments to Syria or its role in them. 6 Where were these purported secret offices located? Was this a reference to the secret CIA annex and obscure U.S. special mission in Benghazi where Stevens held his final meeting with a Turkish diplomat?
    • The New York Times
reported in December 2012 that Stevens himself facilitated an application to the State Department for the sale of weapons, filed by one Marc Turi, whom the
Times
describes as an “American arms merchant who had sought to provide weapons to Libya.” 7 Why was Stevens aiding in an application for an arms merchant? Is this an ordinary activity for a U.S. ambassador? Was Stevens involved in activities in Libya beyond the diplomatic realm? If so, could these activities have any relation to the Benghazi attacks?
    • Fox News reported that Stevens was in Benghazi the very night of the attacks “to negotiate a weapons transfer in an effort to get SA-7 missiles out of the hands of Libya-based extremists.” 8 Is this accurate?
    • In August 2013 there was speculation on Capitol Hill that U.S. agencies operating in Benghazi “were secretly helping to move surface-to-air missiles outof Libya, through Turkey, and into the hands of Syrian rebels.” 9 Were these activities indeed taking place? Were such activities transpiring in the U.S. facilities in Benghazi? Could it be that the movement of these weapons provoked the Benghazi attacks?
    • The
New York Times
reported that U.S. intelligence officers aided Arab governments in obtaining weapons, “including a large procurement from Croatia.” 10 The C-110 forty-man special ops force was reportedly “training” in Croatia during the Benghazi attacks. The force was not deployed to help the embattled Benghazi facilities. Was the C-110 in Croatia to protect, collect, or ship the weapons reportedly procured in that country?
NO REINFORCEMENTS
    • The ARB report provided a timeline of the attacks, an accounting adopted by the Obama administration. The report claims the initial assault on the U.S. special mission in Benghazi started between 9:45 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. local time and lasted until about midnight, when all but two Americans were evacuated to the CIA annex about a mile away. According to the ARB report, at midnight the annex was attacked intermittently for an hour by gunfire and RPGs. The ARB report claims the next phase of the attack started at about 5:15 a.m. local time, describing the second wave of attacks as consisting of heavy mortar and RPG assaults. 11
    • However, witnesses on the ground, including CIA contractors inside the annex, said there was no lull in the fighting at all. 12 The “lull” claim is central to the Obama administration’s explanation for why no air support or special forces were deployed to Benghazi. Was there a lull or not? If not, why didn’t the Obama administration immediately deploy reinforcements? If there was no lull, why did the State Department claim there was?
    • Why were no reinforcements sent the night of the attacks? The government’s standard response is patently absurd. They say they thought the attack was over following the initial assault, so therefore there was just not enough time to send a rescue mission or air support. But how could they have known what the gunmen had planned or that the “first wave” was the only attack to be carried out?
    • After the initial assault Stevens went missing. As reported, the acting assumption of the decision makers that night was that Stevens had been kidnapped. Why were special forces not immediately deployed for a potential hostage situation involving a supposedly kidnapped U.S. ambassador?
    • On the night of the attack, Gen. Carter Ham was placed in charge of