McDad
I can't brain today; I has the dumb.
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I didn't think Wiki was held as a reliable source. Seems like that changes depending on the politics involved.I forgot to give you the link to benghazi. And I will continue to disparage the Q stuff until proven wrong.
2012 Benghazi attack - Wikipedia
Within months of the start of the Libyan revolution in February 2011, the CIA began building a covert presence in Benghazi.[30] During the war, elite counterterrorist operators from U.S. Delta Force were deployed to Libya as analysts, instructing the rebels on specifics about weapons and tactics.[31]:16 Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was named the first liaison with the Libyan opposition in March 2011.[32] After the end of the war, both the CIA and the U.S. State Department were tasked with continuing to identify and collect arms that had flooded the country during the war, particularly shoulder-fired missiles taken from the arsenal of the Gaddafi regime,[33][34] as well as securing Libyan chemical weapons stockpiles, and helping to train Libya's new intelligence service.[30]
Eastern Libya and Benghazi were key intelligence-gathering hubs for intelligence operatives. Before the attack, the CIA was monitoring Ansar al-Sharia and suspected members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as attempting to define the leadership and loyalty of the various militias present and their interaction with the Salafi elements of Libyan society.[30] By the time of the attack, dozens of CIA operatives were on the ground in Benghazi.[35] In addition, it has been reported that in the summer of 2012, American Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) missions had begun to target Libyan militias linked to the Al-Qaeda network of Yasin al-Suri.[31]:58 By the time of the attack, a composite U.S. Special Operations team with two JSOC members was already in Libya working on their mission profile independently of the CIA and State Department operations.
After 10 investigation (I was wrong when I said 7) this is public knowledge now and we all should take a step back and observe an accurate account of events.
I'll look for it verified in other outlets. Stay tuned.