Very interesting..... and ya know, Dude, I believe you posted the truth here about what 's really going on......
For the very first time I'm going to agree with your comment......this was not a "consulate".....it was a CIA station. But, for the life of me.......if this was a CIA station arming insurgents in Syria why wouldn't the administration just have a closed door session with a bi-partisan congressional group and lay it on the table. I can't see Senator Sessions from Alabama, probably the administrations most vocal opponent, going public with that information or causing a storm over what happened if he knew that "we just can't tell everybody what was really going on"......makes no sense.
In the days when cons were conservatives rather than right-wing extremists, that would have been the logical solution. But today's "loyal opposition" is no longer interested in the truth or in doing what's best for the country. They are on an eternal witch hunt to attack Obama as their one and only priority, as McConnell plainly admitted. They have already actively harmed American economic and political interests just to play partisan politics. The debt ceiling hypocrisy that lead to a lowering of the US credit rating is but one case in point. Just to be clear, I do not agree with the traditional methods of CIA intrigue since they are pennywise and pound foolish, and in the long run they create more troubles for us, but that is the way the US has been playing the game since the 50s, along with every other major nation, so I don't expect it to stop.
I still have not seen any evidence the it was the CIA that gave the weapons to the Jihadis. It seems more likely to me that the same Salafi scum who invaded Mali may have gathered up what they could find lying about after the overthrow of Qadafi and packed it off to the next location that they had selected for a base of operations.
I would put this more along the lines of Iran Contra. Big reason Congress has not highlighted this aspect of Benghazi is that this kind of thing goes on all the time both in GOP and Dem administrations
I compiled a list of links, not including any right wing sources. You have to be willing to read, to understand the depth of the situation. Will you read them? Skim the title and first paragraph? You really should start at the beginning, and understand what Ansar al-Sharia is... if I make a really big thread... will you read it? I made one, but rather than make quote after quote I linked within the text of my narrative itself. It was resoundingly unpopular. - - - Updated - - - I would go back to Russia and the Mujihadeen. We REALLY should have learned from THAT.
What do you consider "evidence"? I have posted at least 5 articles from credible sources detailing it. Or are we going with "all sources are not credible" because the accounts of state dept officials, arms dealers, and foreign service involved aren't the sort of proof that comes from independent congressional investigation? Inquiring minds want to know.
