Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist says Benghazi is a HUGE STORY

April 15, 2014 by Washington Blog.

Beyond partisan politics: What Benghazi is all about.

Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymor Hersh - who broke the stories of the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam and the Iraqi prison torture scandals, under Nixon and Bush, reported this last week.

In January, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the assault by a local militia in Septembee 2012 on the American consulate and a nearby undercover CIA facility in Benghazi, which resulted in the death of U.S. ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three others. The report's criticism of the State Department for not providing adequate security at the consulate, and of the intelligence community for not alerting the U.S. MILATARY to the PRESENCE of a CIA OUTPOST in the area, received front page coverage and revived animosities in Washington, with Republicans accusing Obama and Hillary Clinton of a cover-up.

That's the part you've heard about: failure to protect the personal at the embassy.

But then Hersh breaks the deeper story wide open:

A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between Obama and Erdogan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By terms of the agreement funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; The CIA, along with the MI6 was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi's arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities, Retired American soldiers, who didn't always know who was employing them, were hired to to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when his affair became known with his biographer. ( Petraeus has denied the operation.)

THE OPERATION HAD NOT BEEN DISCLOSED, AT THE TIME IT WAS SET UP, TO THE CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES AND THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP, as required by law since the 1970's.

Sorry, Rex, ol boy, seems you've shyt the pen once again.