The REAL Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don't Want You to Know (22 page)

15
. Ibid.

16
. Awr Hawkins, “Attorney for Whistleblower: 400 U.S. Missiles Stolen in Benghazi,”
Breitbart
, August 12, 2013,
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/08/12/Attorney-For-Benghazi-Whistleblower-400-U-S-Missiles-Stolen-In-Benghazi-Annex-Involved
.

17
. Burke, “Report.”

18
. ARB report, 27.

19
. “AFRICOM and SOCAFRICA and the Terrorist Attacks in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012” (transcript of unclassified witness testimony to the House Armed Services Committee), June 26, 2013,
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=AAEBCAA5-4C8F-4820-BACD-2DB9B53C3424
, 46.

20
. Transcript of unclassified witness testimony to the House Armed Services Committee, May 21, 2013,
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=A5BE5DFD-FAA6-4485-9D40-BA30B550907C
, 47.

21
. Aaron Klein, “Did senator drop Benghazi bombshell?” WND, March 18, 2013,
http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/did-senator-drop-benghazi-bombshell/
.

22
. The Stimson Institute, “Spotlight. Assistant Secretary Shapiro Discusses Libya’s Missing,” February 2, 2012,
http://www.stimson.org/spotlight/assistant-secretary-shapiro-discusses-libyas-missing-weapons/
; “A/S SHAPIRO: STIMSON REMARKS: Addressing the Challenge of MANPADS Proliferation 2/2/12,”
http://www.stimson.org/images/uploads/Shapiro_Libya_Remarks.pdf
, p. 1. The Shapiro comments that follow are from this transcript.

23
. A/S SHAPIRO: STIMSON REMARKS, 7, 8, 9.

24
. Ibid., 9, 10.

25
. Ibid., 10.

26
. Ibid., 12–13.

27
. Ibid., 10.

28
. Ibid., 15.

29
. Ibid., 17.

30
. Michelle Nichols, “Libya arms fueling conflicts in Syria, Mali and beyond: U.N. experts,” Reuters, April 9, 2013,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/09/us-libya-arms-un-idUSBRE93814Y20130409
.

31
. Sharyl Attkisson, “Thousands of Libyan missiles from Qaddafi era missing in action,” CBS News, March 25, 2013,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/thousands-of-libyan-missiles-from-qaddafi-era-missing-in-action/
.

1
.   Aaron Klein, “Benghazi investigator won’t deny Stevens kidnap plot,” WND, September 25, 2013,
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/benghazi-investigator-wont-deny-stevens-kidnap-plot
.

2
.   Bill Gertz, “Possible Poisoning: Al Qaeda weapons expert says U.S. ambassador to Libya killed by lethal injection,”
Washington Free Beacon
, June 5, 2013,
http://freebeacon.com/possible-poisoning/
.

3
.   Ibid.

4
.   Ibid.

5
.   Office of the Spokesperson, “Background Briefing on Libya,” U.S. Department of State, October 9, 2012,
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/10/198791.htm
.

6
.   Bradley Klapper, “Timeline of comments on attack on US Consulate,” Associated Press, October 27, 2012,
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/timeline-comments-attack-us-consulate
.

7
.   “Deputy Asst. Secretary of State Charlene Lamb testimony before House Oversight Committee,” October 10, 2012,
http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2012-10-09-Lamb-Testimony-FINAL1.pdf
; and Jamie Dettmer, “The Truth behind the Benghazi Attack,”
Daily Beast
, October 22, 2012,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/21/truth-behind-the-benghazi-attack.html
.

8
.   U.S. Department of State, “Unclassified” ARB Report, accessed February 26, 2014,
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/202446.pdf
(hereinafter “ARB report”), 21.

9
.   Ibid., 22.

10
. Catherine Herridge, “Congressman: Benghazi attackers knew location of ambassador’s safe room,” Fox News, November 15, 2013,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/15/benghazi-attackers-reportedly-knew-location-ambassador-safe-room/
.

11
. ARB report, 22.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Ibid., 26.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Ibid., 27.

17
. “Transcript: Whistle-blower’s account of Sept. 11 Libya terror attack,” Fox News, May 8, 2013,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/08/transcript-whistle-blower-account-sept-11-libya-terror-attack/
.

18
. Eli Lake and Josh Rogin, “Exclusive: Benghazi Whistleblower Says He Was Smeared,”
Daily Beast
, November 2, 2013,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/02/exclusive-benghazi-whistleblower-says-he-was-smeared.html
.

19
. “Incident Report-new1.pdf,” the text of the Blue Mountain incident report at the U.S. special mission, dated September 14, 2012, can be viewed and downloaded at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/181057020/Incident-Report-new1-pdf
.

20
. Associated Press, “US ambassador Chris Stevens killed in consulate attack in Libya,”
Syracuse Post-Standard
, September 12, 2012,
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/us_ambassador_chris_stevens_ki.html
.

21
. Kerry Picket, “AFP not behind report of purported rape of murdered U.S. ambassador to Libya,”
Washington Times
, September 13, 2012,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/sep/13/picket-report-murdered-us-ambassador-libya-reporte/
.

22
. U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, with Additional Views
, September 11–12, 2012 January 15, 2014,
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/benghazi2014/benghazi
. pdf, 6.

23
. Ibid., 7–8.

1
.   Bill Roggio, “Ansar al Shariah issues statement on US Consulate assault in Libya,”
Threat Matrix
(a blog of the Long War Journal), September 12, 2012,
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2012/09/ansar_al_shariah_issues_statem.php#ixzz2sT3f59rP
.

2
.   David D. Kirkpatrick, Suliman Ali Zway, and Kareem Fahim, “Attack by Fringe Group Highlights the Problem of Libya’s Militias,”
New York Times
, Middle East, September 15, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/world/middleeast/attack-by-fringe-group-highlights-the-problem-of-libya-militias.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
.

3
.   David D. Kirkpatrick , “Suspect in Libya Attack, in Plain Sight, Scoffs at U.S.”
New York Times
, Africa, October 18, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/world/africa/suspect-in-benghazi-attack-scoffs-at-us.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
.

4
.   Adam Goldman, “Former Guantanamo detainee implicated in Benghazi attack,”
Washington Post
, January 8, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/former-guantanamo-detainee-implicated-in-benghazi-attack/2014/01/07/c73fdf78-77d5-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html
.

5
.   Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, “Al-Qaida in Libya: A Profile” (Washington, D.C., August 2012),
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/aq-libya-loc.pdf
, 17.

6
.   Ibid., 3, 6, 23.

7
.   Ibid., 1.

8
.   Ibid., 12.

9
.   Aaron Klein, “Egypt’s Morsi behind murder of U.S. ambassador?” WND, July 7, 2013,
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/egypts-morsi-behind-murder-of-u-s-ambassador
. See also Raymond Ibrahim, “Libyan Intelligence: Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Involved in Benghazi,
Front Page
magazine, June 27, 2013, posted at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3036218/posts
.

10
. Josh Rogin, “Exclusive: John McCain on His Meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo,”
Daily Beast
, August 6, 2013,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/06/exclusive-john-mccain-on-his-meeting-with-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-cairo.html
.

11
. See, for example, “Video storm the U.S. embassy and burned in Libya,” Arabic-language YouTube video, 2:19, purporting to show Benghazi attackers speaking Egyptian dialect, posted by “Morad709,” September 12, 2012,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSXHsTCFysI
.

12
. Cynthia Farahat, “Benghazi Terrorists: ‘Dr. Morsi Sent Us,’”
Front Page
magazine, May 31, 2013,
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/cynthia-farahat/benghazi-terrorists-dr-morsi-sent-us/
.

13
. Klein, “Egypt’s Morsi behind murder of U.S. ambassador?”

14
. Warner Todd Huston, “CNN Ignores Real Goal of Cairo Riots: Freedom of Blind Sheik,”
Breitbart News
, September 14, 2012,
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/09/13/Cairo-Riots-Were-Not-Over-Offensive-American-Movie-Freedom-of-Blind-Sheik-The-Goal
.

15
. US Department of State, “Unclassified” ARB Report, accessed February 26, 2014,
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/202446.pdf
, 16.

16
. “EDITORIAL: Obama’s intelligence failure,”
Washington Times
, September 16, 2012,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/16/obamas-intelligence-failure/
.

17
. Nic Robertson, Paul Cruickshank, and Tim Lister, “Pro-al Qaeda group seen behind deadly Benghazi attack,” CNN, September 13, 2012,
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/africa/libya-attack-jihadists
.

18
. Josh Gerstein, “Ex-FBI agent admits to AP leak,”
Politico
, September 23, 2013,
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/ex-fbi-agent-pleads-guilty-associated-press-leak-case-97226.html
.

19
. U.S. Department of State Office of the Spokesperson, “Terrorist Designations of the Muhammad Jamal Network and Muhammad Jamal,” State.gov, October 7, 2013,
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/10/215171.htm
.

20
. U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, with Additional Views
, September 11–12, 2012 January 15, 2014,
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/benghazi2014/benghazi.pdf
, 40.

21
. United Nations, Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities, “Narrative Summaries of Reasons for Listing,” United Nations website, accessed February 12, 2014,
http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/NSQE13613E.shtml
.

22
. Eli Lake, “Benghazi’s Al Qaeda Connection,”
Daily Beast
, October 7, 2013,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/07/benghazi-s-al-qaeda-connection.html
.

23
. Aaron Klein, “Look who freed Benghazi attackers,” WND, October 8, 2013,
http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/look-who-freed-benghazi-attackers
.

24
. “Al-Qaeda confirms death of bin Laden confidant Libi,”
Daily Star
(Lebanon), September 11, 2012,
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Sep-11/187485-al-qaeda-confirms-death-of-bin-laden-confidant-libi.ashx#axzz2t2qejB4l
.

25
. Paul Cruickshank et al., “Sources: 3 al Qaeda operatives took part in Benghazi attack,” CNN, May 4, 2013,
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/02/world/africa/us-libya-benghazi-suspects/index.html
.

26
. Kirkpatrick , “Suspect in Libya Attack, in Plain Sight, Scoffs at U.S.”

27
. July Pace, “Vanishing adviser reappears as Iran policy player,” Associated Press, December 24, 2013,
http://news.yahoo.com/vanishing-adviser-reappears-iran-policy-player-185811990--politics.html
.

28
. Guy Taylor, “Benghazi talking points not shared with Clinton, Nuland says,”
Washington Times
, July 11, 2013,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/11/clinton-aide-victoria-nuland-promotion-faces-senat/?page=all
.

29
. Larry Johnson, “Was Iran behind Benghazi?”
No Quarter
(blog), October 25, 2012,
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/73784/was-iran-behind-benghazi/
.

30
. Mark Langfan, “Op-Ed: Benghazi Leads to Iran, Not Al Qaeda,” Arutz Sheva 7 / Israel National News, August 3, 2013,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13641#.Ut6iTRD8LX5
.

31
. Marinka Peschmann, “Whistleblower Exclusive: The Benghazi cover-up is the proxy battle with the war with Iran,”
Canada Free Press
, May 29, 2013,
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/55502
.

1
.   Evan Perez, “First criminal charges filed in Benghazi attack probe,” CNN, August 7, 2013,
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/06/politics/benghazi-charges/index.html
.

2
.   David D. Kirkpatrick, “Suspect in Libya Attack, in Plain Sight, Scoffs at U.S.”
New York Times
, Africa, October 18, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/world/africa/suspect-in-benghazi-attack-scoffs-at-us.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
.

3
.   Bill Roggio, “Ansar al Shariah issues statement on US Consulate assault in Libya,”
Threat Matrix
(a blog of Long War Journal), September 12, 2012,
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2012/09/ansar_al_shariah_issues_statem.php#ixzz2sT3f59rP
.

4
.   Kirkpatrick, “Suspect in Libya Attack, in Plain Sight, Scoffs at U.S.”

5
.   “Grand Jury Indictment of Abu Anas al-Libi,”
New York Times
, October 5, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/05/world/africa/06libya-document.html?_r=0
.