Robert Spencer

Here
is yet more indication that Obama Administration officials knew
immediately that jihad terrorists were attacking in Benghazi, and chose
instead to blame an obscure video of Muhammad — in other words, the
First Amendment and the freedom of speech. “US spy agencies heard
Benghazi attackers using State Dept. cell phones to call terrorist
leaders,” by Bret Baier and James Rosen,
FoxNews.com, June 11, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
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….
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