XPost: ba.politics, dc.media, soc.penpals   
   XPost: alt.burningman   
   From: gay.scum@barrackobama.com   
      
   The terrorists who attacked the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in   
   Benghazi on September 11, 2012 used cell phones, seized from   
   State Department personnel during the attacks, and U.S. spy   
   agencies overheard them contacting more senior terrorist leaders   
   to report on the success of the operation, multiple sources   
   confirmed to Fox News.   
      
   The disclosure is important because it adds to the body of   
   evidence establishing that senior U.S. officials in the Obama   
   administration knew early on that Benghazi was a terrorist   
   attack, and not a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video   
   that had gone awry, as the administration claimed for several   
   weeks after the attacks.   
      
   Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air   
   Force, served as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft that   
   was used to transport the corpses of the four casualties from   
   the Benghazi attacks – then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris   
   Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs   
   Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – as well as the assault’s   
   survivors from Tripoli to the safety of an American military   
   base in Ramstein, Germany.   
      
   In an exclusive interview on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Stahl   
   said members of a CIA-trained Global Response Staff who raced to   
   the scene of the attacks were “confused” by the administration’s   
   repeated implication of the video as a trigger for the attacks,   
   because “they knew during the attack…who was doing the   
   attacking.” Asked how, Stahl told anchor Bret Baier: “Right   
   after they left the consulate in Benghazi and went to the [CIA]   
   safehouse, they were getting reports that cell phones, consulate   
   cell phones, were being used to make calls to the attackers'   
   higher ups.”   
      
   A separate U.S. official, one with intimate details of the   
   bloody events of that night, confirmed the major’s assertion.   
   The second source, who requested anonymity to discuss classified   
   data, told Fox News he had personally read the intelligence   
   reports at the time that contained references to calls by   
   terrorists – using State Department cell phones captured at the   
   consulate during the battle – to their terrorist leaders. The   
   second source also confirmed that the security teams on the   
   ground received this intelligence in real time.   
      
   Major Stahl was never interviewed by the Accountability Review   
   Board, the investigative panel convened, pursuant to statute, by   
   then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as the official body   
   reviewing all the circumstances surrounding the attacks and   
   their aftermath. Many lawmakers and independent experts have   
   criticized the thoroughness of the ARB, which also never   
   interviewed Clinton nor the under secretary of State for   
   management, Patrick Kennedy, a key figure in the decisions about   
   security at the consulate in the period preceding the attack   
   there.   
      
   In his interview on “Special Report,” Stahl made still other   
   disclosures that add to the vast body of literature on Benghazi   
   – sure to grow in the months ahead, as a select House committee   
   prepares for a comprehensive probe of the affair, complete with   
   subpoena power. Stahl said that when he deposited the   
   traumatized passengers at Ramstein, the first individual to   
   question the CIA security officers was not an FBI officer but by   
   the senior State Department diplomat on the ground.   
      
   “They were taken away from the airplane,” Stahl said. “The U.S.   
   ambassador to Germany [Philip D. Murphy] met us when we landed   
   and he took them away because he wanted to debfrief them that   
   night.” Murphy stepped down as ambassador last year. A message   
   left with Sky Blue FC, a private company in New Jersey with   
   which Murphy is listed online as an executive officer, was not   
   immediately returned.   
      
   http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/06/11/us-spy-agencies-heard-   
   benghazi-attackers-using-state-dept-cell-phones-call-terrorist   
      
       
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)