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The Benghazi Scandal Is Obama’s Watergate But Worse

The Benghazi Scandal Is Obama’s Watergate But Worse
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A trail of 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-Moslem 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 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 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.
The so called Arab spring uprising revolts in Middle Eastern and
North African nations in fact have been the result of covert
manipulation by the CIA.
After getting rid of our one time allies in Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and
Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, next on the US regime-change hit list came
Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. In 2007 retired General Wesley 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 bombardment of
Libya killing many innocent victims that softened the resistance to an
all out assault on Gaddafi’s military forces largely spearheaded by 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ‘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.
Though the former special ops authors may have offered small minor
details on the Benghazi story, obviously far more was going down than
they alluded to. 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 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. According to
authors Webb and Murphy, due to Woods and Doherty’s heroics along with
four other CIA analysts, the remaining embassy staff were apparently
able to safely escape the burning compound. An overhead surveillance
drone had been dispatched above the compound prior to that second attack
that occurred at the annex. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 lack of cooperation with revealing any further details of the attack. Last June the chaos, lawlessness and terror in Benghazi only continued as 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/.
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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