The REAL Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don't Want You to Know (25 page)

7
.   James Risen, Mark Mazzetti, and Michael S. Schmidt, “U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell into Jihadis’ Hands,”
New York Times
, December 5, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/africa/weapons-sent-to-libyan-rebels-with-us-approvalfell-into-islamist-hands.html?pagewanted=all
.

8
. Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne, “Was Syrian weapons shipment factor in ambassador’s Benghazi visit?” Fox News, October 25, 2012,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/25/was-syrian-weapons-shipment-factor-in-ambassadors-benghazi-visit/
.

9
.   Jake Tapper, “Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack,”
The Lead
(CNN blog), August 1, 2013,
http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01/exclusive-dozens-of-cia-operatives-on-the-ground-during-benghazi-attack
.

10
. Risen, Mazzetti, and Schmidt, “U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell into Jihadis’ Hands.”

11
. ARB report, 22–27.

12
. Eli Lake, “CIA Contractor Testimony Could Undermine Obama on Benghazi,”
Daily Beast
, November 6, 2013,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/06/cia-contractor-testimony-could-undermine-obama-on-benghazi.html
.

13
. “Transcript: Whistle-blower’s account of Sept. 11 Libya terror attack,” Fox News, May 8, 2013,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/08/transcript-whistle-blower-account-sept-11-libya-terror-attack/
.

14
. Aaron Klein, “Benghazi witnesses: Security ‘not armed,’
WND Politics
, November 23, 2013,
http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/benghazi-witnesses-security-personnel-were-not-armed/
.

15
. “VIDEO: Rep. Lynn Westmoreland on Benghazi eyewitness testimony,” Fox News, November 26, 2013,
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2871289782001/replynn-westmoreland-on-benghazi-eyewitness-testimony/#sp=show-clips
.

16
. ARB report.

17
. Aaron Klein, “Now CIA contradicts gov’t Benghazi account,” WND, December 16, 2013,
http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/now-cia-contradicts-govt-benghazi-account/
.

18
. ARB report, 23.

19
. Ibid., 26

20
. Ibid.

21
. Ibid., 27.

22
. U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, with Additional Views
, 7–8.

23
. Josh Rogin, “Exclusive: John McCain on His Meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo,”
Daily Beast
, August 6, 2013,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/06/exclusive-john-mccain-on-his-meeting-with-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-cairo.html
.

24
. U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, with Additional Views
, “Additional Views of Vice Chairman Chambliss and Senators Burr, Risch, Coats, Rubio, and Coburn,” 11.

25
. Catherine Herridge, “Exclusive: Classified cable warned consulate couldn’t withstand ‘coordinated attack,’” Fox News, October 31, 2012,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/31/exclusive-us-memo-warned-libya-consulate-couldnt-withstand-coordinated-attack/
.

26
. Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler, “Backstage Glimpses of Clinton as Dogged Diplomat, Win or Lose,”
New York Times
, February 2, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/us/politics/in-behind-scene-blows-and-triumphs-senseof-clinton-future.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2FBackstage%2BGlimpses%2Bof%2BClinton%2Bas%2BDogged%2BDiplomat%2C%2BWin%2Bor%2BLose%2F
.

27
. U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Additional Views
, 11.

28
. Stephen F. Hayes, “Lawmakers: CIA #2 Lied to Us about Benghazi,”
Weekly Standard
, March 3, 2014,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/lawmakerscia-2-lied-us-about-benghazi_782724.html
.

29
. Catherine Herridge, “Report sheds light on ex-CIA deputy director’s role in Benghazi talking points,” Fox News Politics, February 4, 2014,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/04/report-sheds-light-on-ex-cia-director-role-in-benghazi-talking-points/
.

1
.   Hillary Clinton,
Hard Choices
, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), Kindle edition, chap. 17.

2
.   Clinton,
Hard Choices
, chap. 17.

3
.   Ibid.

4
.   Ibid.

5
.   “What They Said, Before and After the Attack in Libya,”
New York Times
, September 12, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/12/us/politics/libya-statements.html?_r=0
.

6
.   Clinton,
Hard Choices
, chap. 17.

7
.   Ibid.

8
.   Ibid.

9
.   “Transcript: Whistle-blower’s account of Sept. 11 Libya terror attack,” Fox News, May 8, 2013,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/08/transcript-whistle-blower-account-sept-11-libya-terror-attack/
.

10
. Catherine Herridge, “Report sheds light on ex-CIA deputy director’s role in Benghazi talking points,” Fox News, February 4, 2014,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/04/report-sheds-light-on-ex-cia-director-role-in-benghazi-talking-points/
.

11
. Clinton,
Hard Choices
, chap. 17.

12
. Ibid., chap. 17.

13
. Kimberly Dozier, “CIA Benghazi team clash led to ‘stand down’ report,” Associated Press, December 14, 2013,
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cia-benghazi-team-clash-led-stand-down-report
.

14
. Clinton,
Hard Choices
, chap. 17.

15
. Eli Lake, “CIA Contractor Testimony Could Undermine Obama on Benghazi,” Daily Beast, November 6, 2013,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/06/cia-contractor-testimony-could-undermine-obama-on-benghazi.html
.

16
. Clinton,
Hard Choices
, chap. 17.

17
. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “Review of the terrorist attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya;” January 15, 2014
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2014_rpt/benghazi.pdf
.

18
. Clinton,
Hard Choices
, chap. 17.

19
. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “Review of the terrorist attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya;”

20
. Clinton,
Hard Choices
, chap. 17.

21
. Ibid.

22
. United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “Benghazi Attacks: Investigative Update: Interim Report on the Accountability Review Board” (September 16, 2013),
http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Report-for-Members-final.pdf
,

23
. Full text, Majority Staff Report, House Foreign Affairs Committee, “Benghazi: Where is the State Department Accountability?” Available at
http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/sites/republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov/files/HFAC%20Majority%20Staff%20Report%20on%20Benghazi.pdf
.

24
. Clinton,
Hard Choices
, chap. 17.

25
. Ibid.

A

Abdel Rahman, Abdallah,
75
,
126
,
152

Abdel-Rahman, Omar,
73
–76,
126
,
152

Accountability Review Board (State Department),
2
,
14
,
59

report on the 9/11/12 attacks.
See
ARB report

Agenzia Fides,
145

Afghanistan,
24
,
50

AFRICOM,
3
,
37
,
38
–40,
132
,
162
n6

Agence France-Press,
66

Agincourt Solutions,
125

airliners, worldwide threat to,
140
–42

air support for Benghazi,
xi
,
xiii
,
35
,
45
–47,
52
,
155

al-Bajadin, Abdallah Dhu,
55

Al Entisar
(Libyan vessel),
30

Algeria,
xv
,
52
,
76
,
80
,
135
,
140
–42

Algerian involvement in Benghazi?
69

al-Hasidi, Abdel-Hakim,
24

al-Libi, Abu Yahya,
76
,
79
–80,
86
,
143

al-Libi, Abu Anas,
85
–91

al-Libi, Nabih,
88

Al-Nas (satellite station),
74

al-Qaeda,
xii
,
xv
,
9
,
10
,
19
,
22
,
24
,
29
,
33
,
49
,
52
,
54
,
55
,
56
,
69
,
70
,
72
,
73
,
76
,
79
–82,
83
,
86
,
87
–88,
94
,
100
,
101
,
108
–9,
111
,
113
,
115
,
120
–24,
135
,
136
,
138
,
140
–43,
145
,
149

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
See
AQAP

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
See
AQIM

“Al-Qaida in Libya: A Profile” (Library of Congress report warning of Qumu’s activities),
71
–73

Al Rai
(Kuwaiti newspaper),
74

al-Zawahiri, Ayman,
79
–80,
143

al-Zawahiri, Mohammed,
79

American embassy.
See
U.S. embassy

Ansar al-Mujahideen Network,
55

Ansar al-Sharia,
9
–10,
49
,
63
,
64
,
68
,
70
–72,
79
,
86
,
87
,
94
,
101
,
109
,
117
,
122
,
123
–24,
128
,
141
–42,
150

AQAP,
79
–80,
142
–44

AQIM,
52
,
79
,
83
,
122
,
140
,
141
–42

anti-Islam film,
x
,
xv
,
9
,
21
,
70
,
75
,
107
–8,
115
–16,
120
,
125
–29,
148
–49,
152

Arab Spring,
23
,
25
,
96
,
98
,
101

ARB report,
xi
–xii,
2
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
11
–12,
14
,
16
–18,
37
,
43
–47,
54
,
56
–63,
65
,
76
,
77
,
96
,
97
,
118
,
124
–26,
130
,
131
,
151
,
153
–54,
156

arms to jihadists,
102
–6,
136
–37,
157

ARSO

defined,
16
,
57

ARSO
1
,
8
,
11
,
17
,
57
,
59

ARSOs
2
–4,
8
,
16
–17,
59

Aspen Institute,
41

Aspen Security Forum,
39

Assad, Bashar al-,
21
,
25
,
48
,
81
,
82
,
136
,
137
,
145
,
154

Associated Press (AP),
43
–44,
65
–66,
88
,
127
–29

Attkisson, Sharyl,
52
,
111

Aviationist
(magazine),
13
–14

Ayotte, Kelly,
110
–11

B

Baier, Bret,
27
–28,
49

Batchelor, John,
86

Beacon Global Strategies,
98
,
112
,
170
n16

Belmokhtar, Mokhtar,
142

Benghazi

facility not set up for protection,
6
–7

guard towers denied at,
6
,
8
,
13
,
94
,
96

Hillary Clinton’s role in,
93
–106

lies and misleading claims concerning attacks in,
148
–57

one-of-a-kind facility at,
5
–6

real reason suspects weren’t captured,
85
–92

Senate report on,
2
–3,
4
,
5
–6,
10
,
11
,
18
–19,
47
,
66
–68,
78
,
124

why no air support?
45
–47

Benghazi Hoax, The
(Brock and Rabin-Havt),
129
–34

Benghazi Medical Center (BMC),
59
–60,
62
–63,
65
,
67
,
68
,
156

bin Laden, Osama,
34
,
71

Blue Mountain,
8
–9,
10
,
64
,
65