October 11, 2012

Republicans Reveal Location Of Secret CIA Base During House Hearing On Libya Attacks

Source: Think Progress

In their questioning and in the public testimony they invited, the lawmakers managed to disclose, without ever mentioning Langley directly, that there was a seven-member “rapid response force” in the compound [in Benghazi] the State Department was calling an annex. One of the State Department security officials was forced to acknowledge that “not necessarily all of the security people” at the Benghazi compounds “fell under my direct operational control.”

And whose control might they have fallen under? Well, presumably it’s the “other government agency” or “other government entity” the lawmakers and witnesses referred to; Issa informed the public that this agency was not the FBI.

“Other government agency,” or “OGA,” is a common euphemism in Washington for the CIA. This “other government agency,” the lawmakers’ questioning further revealed, was in possession of a video of the attack but wasn’t releasing it because it was undergoing “an investigative process.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/11/991231/republicans-reveal-cia-base-libya/?fb_action_ids=10151268486573669&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

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Republicans can not be trusted with secrets because they politicize them. First Valerie Plame now this.