Informant Earned $7 Million for Role in Benghazi Prosecution
Source: NY Times
The 40-year-old informant testified matter-of-factly for hours in federal court in Washington on Monday and Tuesday under the pseudonym of Ali Majrisi. He implicated Mr. Khattala in the attacks that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, and spoke of his initial reservations about working with the United States, which eventually paid him a $7 million reward for his work....
...Already, a jury has heard dramatic accounts from C.I.A. officers in disguises and other Americans who survived the attacks. Two other Libyans also provided damaging details about Mr. Khattala as federal prosecutors tried to paint an a damning picture of his activities before and after the attacks.
In his lengthy testimony, Mr. Majrisi talked about how the Americans paid him $5,000 a month to spy on Mr. Khattala and arrange his capture at a seaside cottage about 20 miles southwest of Benghazi. Once Mr. Khattala was in American custody, Mr. Majrisi received the hefty reward, paid in two installments, and was relocated to Texas. He received other compensation from the F.B.I. too, paying for his familys expenses.
Mr. Khattalas defense lawyer, Michelle Peterson, suggested Mr. Majrisis testimony was financially motivated.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/us/politics/benghazi-trial-informant-testimony.html
I have a bad feeling about this...
wearily,
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barbtries
(28,769 posts)seven million dollars and a free ticket to the USA. this is hard for me to get.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Sounds exactly like what we do.
It's not like 'Bubba' is going to blend in and infiltrate Middle Eastern and North African terrorist groups.
No worries.
azureblue
(2,145 posts)could have gone towards offsetting the embassy security budget the GOP cut.