Benghazi & The Al Qaeda Resurgence - What The Deadly Attack Was Foreshadowing

By Arnold Ahlert * Canada Free Press

According to sources talking to CNN, “including those with deep inside knowledge of the agency’s workings,” 35 CIA agents were on the ground in Benghazi the night ambassador Christopher Stevens, Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, and diplomat Sean Smith, were killed in a terrorist attack.

As a result, the agency is making an “unprecedented attempt” to keep what they were doing there a secret. “You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation,” revealed one of those sources.

That pressure apparently includes subjecting agents who were on the ground to “frequent, even monthly” polygraph tests to see if they’ve been talking to either Congress or the media. Former CIA operative and CNN analyst Robert Baer puts the number of tests in perspective. “Agency employees typically are polygraphed every three to four years. Never more than that,” he said. “If somebody is being polygraphed every month, or every two months it’s called an issue polygraph, and that means that the polygraph division suspects something, or they’re looking for something, or they’re on a fishing expedition. But it’s absolutely not routine at all to be polygraphed monthly, or bi-monthly,” he added.

Another source described the frequency of testing as pure intimidation, noting that any unauthorized leak could cost someone his career. The source further noted that intimidation was not limited to the individual leaker. “You don’t jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well,” the source warned.

Obama administration is “creating aliases” for the Benghazi survivors

The CNN story broke last Thursday. Later that evening, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) took it one step further. In an exchange with Greta Van Susteren, Gowdy alleged the Obama administration is “creating aliases” for the Benghazi survivors, as well as “dispersing them” across the nation in an effort to keep them from talking. “So you stop and think what things are most calculated to get at the truth? Talk to people with first-hand knowledge. What creates the appearance or perhaps the reality of a cover-up? Not letting us talk to people who have the most amount of information, dispersing them throughout the country and changing their names,” Gowdy claimed. Susteren agreed, noting that she had also made efforts to interview the survivors, but was unable to do so “because the administration is doing everything it can to hide them.”

Gowdy is not the first congressman to make such claims. On December 12, 2012, Congressman Jason Chaffetz told Breitbart News he had been “thwarted” by the State Department from seeing any of the Benghazi survivors, and the following March he also alleged that one of the survivors who had been hospitalized had his “name changed” on the hospital records to prevent identification.

It was at this juncture that Fox News learned that seven of the survivors had been injured bad enough to warrant hospitalization, one of whom reportedly underwent a partial leg amputation, and another who suffered from smoke inhalation and a possible brain injury. Fox further noted that while some of the survivors work in “clandestine services” and don’t want to be identified, they still wonder why they haven’t been called into closed hearings to testify about the attack.

CNN’s source also put the number of wounded at seven, some seriously, even as it remains unknown how many of them were CIA. (It is important to note that the references to “Benghazi survivors” include both those from the State Department and the CIA, and that both agencies have been involved in keeping them from away from Congress and the public.)

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), whose district includes the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, noted that shortly after the attack he was contacted by people closely tied to CIA operatives and other contractors who wanted to step forward. “Initially they were not afraid to come forward,” said Wolf. “They wanted the opportunity, and they wanted to be subpoenaed, because if you’re subpoenaed, it sort of protects you, you’re forced to come before Congress. Now that’s all changed,” he added.

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