Republicans Reveal Location Of Secret CIA Base During House Hearing On Libya Attacks
Source: Think Progress
In their questioning and in the public testimony they invited, the lawmakers managed to disclose, without ever mentioning Langley directly, that there was a seven-member rapid response force in the compound [in Benghazi] the State Department was calling an annex. One of the State Department security officials was forced to acknowledge that not necessarily all of the security people at the Benghazi compounds fell under my direct operational control.
And whose control might they have fallen under? Well, presumably its the other government agency or other government entity the lawmakers and witnesses referred to; Issa informed the public that this agency was not the FBI.
Other government agency, or OGA, is a common euphemism in Washington for the CIA. This other government agency, the lawmakers questioning further revealed, was in possession of a video of the attack but wasnt releasing it because it was undergoing an investigative process.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/11/991231/republicans-reveal-cia-base-libya/?fb_action_ids=10151268486573669&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
Republicans can not be trusted with secrets because they politicize them. First Valerie Plame now this.
ck4829
(35,094 posts)montanacowboy
(6,106 posts)are getting security briefings
imagine what they will do with that information
UrbScotty
(23,980 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)it's time to call it what it is... they are commiting treason in so many fucking ways, and if the US wants to exist as a democracy, it better get a lid on the sick fuckers now!
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)What do we do about treason when half the country is for it?
red dog 1
(27,875 posts)going back to October 1980, when the CIA's Donald Gregg copied Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for his second debate with Ronald Reagan, smuggled them out of the White House, turned them over to Reagan's campaign team and George Will used them to prepare Reagan for the Second Debate.
Reagan lost the first debate badly, and Carter was well ahead in the polls.
However, Reagan won the second debate, because he knew what Carter was going to say beforehand..("Well, there you go again" , because of the stolen Carter briefing papers..
This was called "Debate-Gate", and, after "winning" the second debate, Reagan went on to defeat Carter in a close election.
Shouldn't theft of top secret papers from the White House be considered an act of treason?
To this day, I wonder why Donald Gregg, George Will, William Casey and others weren't tried for treason for their roles in "Debate Gate"
Both Donald Gregg and William Casey went on to become deeply involved in the Iran-Contra scandal.
Up2Late
(17,797 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)You have to wonder.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Either way, they are unfit for public service.
Cha
(297,799 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)This is the same party that outed Valerie Plame when her husband didn't play ball.
alp227
(32,065 posts)Haywood Brothers
(19 posts)...to score on Democrats.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)ffr
(22,674 posts)No More Republicans. PERIOD!
NYtoBush-Drop Dead
(490 posts)should be tried as traitors.
randr
(12,417 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,365 posts)... for Issa to shut the f* up.
Up2Late
(17,797 posts)...answer for this leak!
I have no doubt that Issa would do that in the House if any Democratic Senator did this in a hearing.
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts).....just to try to water down Obama's credentials for having killed Bin Laden...
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Bachman and Issa should be hauled in and investigated thoroughly.
libodem
(19,288 posts)You give 'em one security briefing and suddenly rMoney is a critic on foreign policy.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)Suspected US drones attack civilian locations in Yemen and Pakistan (among other places--some of the locations are so classified that you haven't been cleared to even know that they exist on the map) due to "suspected militants" being reputed to be at the location. Don't question me on this, we have intelligence reports to prove whatever story is needed to keep up morale until the next headlines appear and distract attention away from the last fable being spun. Thousands of nominally innocent people die in the process. This would be tragic and might even warrant a fundraiser or a special set of commemorative plates to be minted, if not for the fact that they were born in the wrong country and probably worship the wrong mythic religious icons (or non-icons, as the case may be). Nonetheless, it is dismissed with aggressively patriotic contempt by the cheerleaders because the civilians make themselves a valid target by associating with suspected militants. What a "suspected militant" precisely constitutes will change with whatever excuse is required at the time to keep consumer confidence at high levels, which is important since we are entering the Christmas season and Americans need the courage to continue shopping if this recovery(TM) is ever really going to take hold. Does the same principle apply in such an analogous situation as this? Or is it a special exception, because Americans are just a special exception to anything?
I don't expect a real answer, but at least will raise the question. Well, somewhere buried in with that rhetoric-laden tirade is a question. A couple of them, perhaps.
.99center
(1,237 posts)'BONEHEADED QUESTIONING'
The next morning, Dana Milbank, a Washington Post columnist, wrote that the committee's "boneheaded questioning" of State Department witnesses left little doubt that the compound in the pictures was a "CIA base."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/13/us-usa-libya-intelligence-idUSBRE89B1EU20121013