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To: steve harris who wrote (514868)10/18/2012 7:25:42 PM
From: Carolyn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793868
 
This is just horrible.



To: steve harris who wrote (514868)10/21/2012 12:37:38 AM
From: Nadine Carroll17 Recommendations  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 793868
 
According to sources in the State Department Chris Stevens was in Benghazi, Libya at the specific instruction of the Obama White House to recover weapons that the U.S. supplied to Libya rebels in the over throw of Gaddafi. These sources who work in the State Department and the Obama White House say that Barack Obama was directly involved in negotiations with Libyan Rebels in an effort to recover weapons that the U.S. supplied them. Sources say that the arrangements were made between Barack Obama direct talks and that the White House directly arranged for AMB Stevens to travel to Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 and it was by direction of Barack Obama that Stevens was to meet with the very individuals who tortured, raped and murdered him.

Very plausible. Everybody knows that State won't sit still to be thrown under the bus without leaking their side of the story. Obama didn't want it to come out that he had sold weapons to "brave Libyan rebels" who turned out to be al Qaeda in the Mahgreb, so he sent Stevens to get them back. Barry Rubin has reported the same story from his sources in the intelligence community:

If [Stevens] was, as accounts by sources in the U.S. intelligence community suggested, negotiating with a terrorist, anti-American group to obtain the return of U.S. weapons provided during the civil war, that would have been a much higher-priority matter. I have been asked by sources not to reveal the specific weapons system that was Washington’s highest priority to buy back, but the details make sense. The fact that the ambassador was not accompanied by a delegation of foreign aid experts to evaluate these alleged projects shows that the reason for the ambassador’s presence in Benghazi is being covered up. This situation transcends State Department jurisdiction and brings in the CIA and higher-level national security officials. The plan would have been in the presidential briefing and it is quite conceivable he would have been called on to approve of it.
pjmedia.com

Heck of a story, that.