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kpete

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Fri Aug 2, 2013, 04:27 PM Aug 2013

Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack-CNN has uncovered exclusive [View all]

Source: cnn

Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack
CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack.

Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault by armed militants last September 11 in eastern Libya.

Programming note: Was there a political cover up surrounding the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans? Watch a CNN special investigation — The Truth About Benghazi, Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET.

Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret.

CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency's Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.

Read more: http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01/exclusive-dozens-of-cia-operatives-on-the-ground-during-benghazi-attack/?on.cnn=1

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CNN needs to pimp this nonstory to keep us from asking questions about, well, anything. NYC_SKP Aug 2013 #1
+1 wtmusic Aug 2013 #7
It's not a non-story if you think the CIA should operate within legal constraints. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2013 #21
My sis and I had a discussion when all this happened Mojorabbit Aug 2013 #48
Just what is needed jehop61 Aug 2013 #2
This might actually have legs NoOneMan Aug 2013 #29
good lord. no story originating at CNN has legs. ZRT2209 Aug 2013 #52
Jake Tapper? That scoundrell? dawn frenzy adams Aug 2013 #57
If mtasselin Aug 2013 #3
Find a mirror and ask yourself this question. ... spin Aug 2013 #54
well, this is very weird. My guess is the terrorists were CIA operatives. NoMoreWarNow Aug 2013 #4
What else is new? Archae Aug 2013 #5
That's wht I was going to say, too. leftyladyfrommo Aug 2013 #9
good point NoMoreWarNow Aug 2013 #32
E-X-A-C-T-L-Y kpete Aug 2013 #10
That's what I think, too. nt Tumbulu Aug 2013 #16
Newsrooms Genoa is real life? benld74 Aug 2013 #6
Perhaps that's where Sorkin was going with "Genoa"... Cooley Hurd Aug 2013 #26
CIA.... rtracey Aug 2013 #8
Benghazi was never an "embassy" neohippie Aug 2013 #13
I think your assessment go west young man Aug 2013 #15
There are people John2 Aug 2013 #39
Is Assad a democratically-elected President? David Krout Aug 2013 #11
Assad got the job from his father, Assad. Zen Democrat Aug 2013 #18
By that standard, Hitler would have died of old age. 24601 Aug 2013 #60
Apparently they were running an arms export business to Syria. dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #12
Yes, that is what I'd heard too - eom dreamnightwind Aug 2013 #30
See article I linked to below. n/t truth2power Aug 2013 #37
It would be a lot more strange Mr.Bill Aug 2013 #14
CIA operatives Steviehh Aug 2013 #17
Oh, so General Petraeus is now the Benghazi bad guy? Zen Democrat Aug 2013 #19
The sad thing is Fox News will blame it on Obama. Initech Aug 2013 #20
Has CNN asked Darrell Issa about outing the names of Libyans who worked with the CIA? alp227 Aug 2013 #22
Interesting, it only took CNN 11 months to realize things we were discussing immediately after they leveymg Aug 2013 #23
^^^ THIS, PEOPLE. THIS. ^^^^ Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #50
Does anyone know how many CIA operatives are normally in a third world city? PuffedMica Aug 2013 #24
3 dozen is a lot of CIA, and the questions are NoMoreWarNow Aug 2013 #33
If the CIA is present John2 Aug 2013 #40
Dear CNN Kelvin Mace Aug 2013 #25
Mockingbird ultimately worked, apparently. Cooley Hurd Aug 2013 #28
This story screams out for one action: Cooley Hurd Aug 2013 #27
Paula Broadwell claimed 3 Libyan attackers were held in the CIA Benghazi annex NoOneMan Aug 2013 #31
Didn't this come out at the time that the CIA was keeping prisoners there against rules? coldmountain Aug 2013 #35
You mean Petraeus John2 Aug 2013 #44
Yep NoOneMan Aug 2013 #47
This is one thimblefull of info on one operation in an ocean of operations we don't know anything lindysalsagal Aug 2013 #34
You got them John2 Aug 2013 #41
Thanks for posting this, kpete. CNN is late to the party, though... truth2power Aug 2013 #36
President Obama John2 Aug 2013 #42
Buying weapons OldRedneck Aug 2013 #38
Wait, wut? We already knew this when Repukes illegally exposed the operations... DRoseDARs Aug 2013 #43
two wrongs don't make a right quadrature Aug 2013 #45
I believe John2 Aug 2013 #46
You knew this of course... CanSocDem Aug 2013 #53
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2013 #49
CNN is trying to outfox Fox. All in an effort for Paul 2016. Sad. MjolnirTime Aug 2013 #51
That's silly. CNN in the bag for Rand Paul? Really? Comrade Grumpy Aug 2013 #55
The press has a tremendous responsibility in our system to be the watchdog that ... spin Aug 2013 #56
Just what John2 Aug 2013 #58
You have a right to your opinion and I respect that. ... spin Aug 2013 #59
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