Benghazi Testimony I was shocked to hear the testimony of former CIA Director Michael Morell who worked behind-the-scenes as a political troubleshooting or manipulation of the media stories and White House talking points. Why would the CIA Director rely on the agency’s Washington analysts and not consider or rely on the people involved on the ground in Benghazi the night of the attack ????? Morrell concedes that he and the analysts made mistakes — and he’s right. The whole talking points exercise was a bureaucratic mess of turf-protection and backside-covering. And he is putting it mildly when he says his final edited version “was not an example of the CIA’s best work,” that it involved too many public affairs people, and that the agency shouldn’t have been writing talking points in the first place. It’s also worth mulling that the CIA station chief in Tripoli got it right, quickly, about the nature of the Benghazi attack when the analysts back at headquarters were wrongly saying it involved protests outside the consulate, as opposed to an attack by al-Qaeda-linked extremists. I was also shocked to learn that Michael Morell (a CIA Director) escorted Susan Rice around Congress as she was seeking congressional approval and a promotion.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:41:40 +0000
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