New information about the intelligence available in the immediate
aftermath of the Benghazi attack raises questions about whether the
former No. 2 at the CIA downplayed or dismissed reporting from his own
people in Libya that it was a coordinated attack and not an
out-of-control protest over an anti-Islam video.
Then-Deputy Director Mike Morell, whose own agency lost two employees
at Benghazi, former Navy Seals Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, was heavily
involved in editing the administration’s internal narrative on what
happened – known as the “talking points” – which served as the basis for
then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s controversial claims about a protest
on the Sunday talk shows after the attack.
According to the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report on
Benghazi, on Sept. 15, four days after the attack and one day before
Rice’s appearance, the CIA’s most senior operative on the ground in
Libya emailed Morell and others at the agency that the attack was
“not/not an escalation of protests.” Keep Reading
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