Did the US Government Set Up the Benghazi Attack?

We all know that there is a lot which is strange about the Libyan mess. It even appears that the Obama Administration is hiding something. I assume they wanted to make this whole thing look like an unplanned protest which got out of hand, to protect Obama’s narrative of himself as the brilliant foreign policy genius, who engineered a perfect “Arab Spring.” But there are other possibilities, and we will look at one here.

First there is the most baffling aspect of the situation. Security was pulled in Benghazi, against the requests of the Ambassador and a Special Forces Security Team Leader. The SF team leader recommended more security, only to see himself and his team pulled, along with another DSS security team. Supposedly 34 security personnel were pulled from the very country which was about to be attacked, in the period leading up to the attack. On top of that, unlike every other embassy abroad, the Marine guards were specifically pulled out. To do that, in one of the most lawless and dangerous places we maintained a presence was very strange.

The two, now legendary former SEALs, Ty Woods and Glenn Doherty, were only there by chance. Attached to the CIA to chase down loose SAMs, they just happened to be stationed nearby, and mounted their valiant defense only after they heard the attack begin.

It almost seems as if the whole consular office, which housed an Ambassador, in one of the most lawless places on earth, deep in radical fundamentalist Islamist country, was purposely left as an unprotected, sitting duck, just as it was about to come under attack. How did that happen?

The security situation was so strange, that some are even postulating that Obama reached out to the Muslim Brotherhood, and organized this whole thing, including the poor security, purposefully. The theory goes that Obama wanted the Muslim Brotherhood to kidnap Stevens, and then Obama would negotiate his release at the last minute, maybe even giving over the Blind Sheikh, in return. While I suspect our enemies would be eager to help Obama hold on to the Presidency, I doubt Obama would be stupid enough to try this. He is, above all else about protecting himself, and that would be one hell of a risk. And yet, it almost makes as much sense as any other explanation.

Despite the environment of uncertainty, the Stevens mess did have that feeling, when every break falls for your enemy, and you feel like the deck was stacked somehow. So many opportunities to stop this before it began, and all of them, against all logic and simple common sense, were not taken advantage of.

Presumably under orders, Stevens traveled to a poorly guarded outpost of houses, in a hostile, terrorist haven right before the attack, rather staying in the secure, hardened embassy in Tripoli. The attackers knew the layout of the grounds, and who was in what houses. The attackers knew about the secret safe-house. The safe-room which Stevens was in, saw its air supply compromised with “diesel” smoke – was it coincidental, or did insurgents know the location of the air draw, and fill it with diesel smoke to try and smoke him out for kidnapping? Security, including the de rigueur Marine detachment, was pulled, and then partly replaced with unarmed locals, contracted through a British firm, itself very unusual.

And the big question – why did the administration lie so aggressively about the Youtube video, especially, given that the date of the attack clearly pointed to a planned operation, on 9/11? Why did they want this to all look unplanned? Who would care if it was a wild protest, or Al Qaida lashing out?

It feels like something is being hidden from us. And even stranger, it even feels almost like our own government went out of it’s way to set this goal up purposefully for Al Qaida.

What if our government did set this up, but Obama and Hillary knew nothing of it, and weren’t involved at all?

We have seen a lot of talk lately about how radical Islamists are infiltrating our government. Even Hillary’s right hand gal Huma has a list of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood a mile long. Suppose Al Qaida was so pissed about Bin Ladin’s killing that they decided to risk burning one of their highest ranking sleepers within our government bureaucracy at the State Department, to use them for some bureaucratic tactical support. The sleeper or sleepers administratively saw Stevens would be ordered to a vulnerable location like Benghazi at some point, they avoided assigning adequate security to that location, and waited. Al Qaida then gets to take a brutal revenge this year, on the anniversary of September 11th. We kill their leader and then kill their second in command in June in Pakistan, and in return they kidnap our ambassador, and do God knows what to him on video, before killing him – probably putting it on the internet for all to see.

Somebody in State, obviously below Hillary, pulled almost all of the Security in Libya, even going out of their way to remove the Marines. I have no doubt if anybody had bothered Hillary with security arrangements at some consular outpost somewhere, she would have launched an expletive filled tirade about wasting her time and thrown her martini on them. Someone at State had Stevens in Benghazi rather than Tripoli, without security. So who gave the orders, and what are their stories?

According to CBS news, the head of the Special Forces Security team which requested more security in Benghazi, “insists that senior staff in Libya, including Ambassador Stevens, State Department Regional Security Officer Eric Nordstrom, and himself, all wanted, and had requested, enhanced security.” The team leader went on to say they were told “to do with less. For what reasons, I don’t know… We tried to illustrate… to show them how dangerous and how volatile and just unpredictable that whole environment was over there. So to decrease security in the face of that really is… it’s just unbelievable.”

According to ABC News, the team leader said, “The embassy staff’s “first choice was for us to stay.” Despite this, ABC went on to report that “a senior State Department official told ABC News that the embassy’s Regional Security Officer never specifically requested that the SST’s tour be extended past August…”

So Nordstrom wanted it, Stevens wanted it, and the SF team leader wanted it, but their requests disappeared once they reached the State Department’s bureaucracy back home.

Of course, this could easily be Liberal incompetence in the face of reality, but then why aren’t we seeing it all over the world? Why did it apparently happen just in the one place we were about to be attacked by a force of 200 organized Al Qaida militants, and why did it happen right before the attack was launched? (Especially since the Security Team had already been extended once before with no problems.)

From ABC News:

“The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli had already asked for — and received — an extension of the SST earlier in the year. A February draft request for a 120-day extension, obtained by ABC News, stated that the team is “an integral part of our mobile and fixed site security functions,” augmenting the security escort work done by the Mobile Security Detachment, protecting the embassy, training local guards, serving as a Quick Reaction Force, providing “vital medical, communications, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), as well as, command and control enablers that are critical to post’s security effort.”

The embassy request stated: “Quite simply, we cannot maintain our existing levels of Embassy operations, much less implement necessary staffing increases, without a continued SST presence.””

It may not be likely, but if an Al Qaida mole at State did set this goal up for Al Qaida, by administratively pulling security, it’s worth noting that it would be devastating for Obama, Liberals, and all the Liberal Appeasers who want to fill our government with radical Islamists, as a sign of good will to our enemies. Imagine the outcry among normal Americans. These idiots letting the enemy run aspects of our government.

Suppose, on the day of the attack, as Obama listens to it live in the situation room, he asked angrily, “Who pulled all the security?” and the answer comes back, “A State Department worker named Mohammed Hussein, al Awaki.” Suppose a check of this guy finds he has as many connections to Muslim terrorists as Huma.

If it gets out, there would be a purge of anyone in State or Intel with a questionable Muslim pedigree, while Obama and his Liberal cabal would have been shown to be the incompetent tools we all know they are in matters of national security. And this would all happen right before the election.

If this was the case, at the moment Obama realized what happened, full cover-up mode would go into effect. It would be just as if Obama had pulled the trigger on the Benghazi attack himself, as a Muslim sleeper working for Al Qaida.

A key element of the coverup, would be to make the attack look unplanned. If it was unplanned, then the US government’s actions wouldn’t be related, and wouldn’t deserve scrutiny. Some protestors in a safe neighborhood just caught us sleeping by accident, so no need to investigate. Howeer, if an outpost deep in Al Qaida country was left wholly unguarded, and ripe for an attack, people may want to know why.

I’d really like to know who made the call to stall and thwart sending security to Benghazi, who put Stevens there, and just what their stories are. Sadly, given how our government protects it’s own incompetents, I will be surprised if we ever get any names.

Hopefully Mitt is up to the Herculean task of cleaning out the Stables of State and Intel. After Obama, we are going to have to purge a lot of bad actors from our government, and it will be all the tougher with rubes like McCain trying to thwart us at every turn.