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Postby seemslikeadream » Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:50 pm

The identity emerged Sunday of the woman who purportedly received harassing emails from CIA Director David Petraeus’ biographer that eventually led to an FBI investigation, then Petraeus’ resignation.
A senior military official said the woman is a State Department's liaison to the military's Joint Special Operations Command.
The official identified her as 37-year-old Jill Kelley, in Tampa, Fla., according to the Associated Press.


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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:55 pm

Interesting scenario you've constructed, fish. The first report I read, I believe via yahoo newz, mentioned that the recipient of the 'threatening' emails from Broadwell did not know her or whom sent the messages. We don't know anything more about her as yet, excepting that she was receiving scary messages from some unknown 'crazy', or so the story goes.

How difficult do you think it would be for one of the alphabets to find someone fitting to play that role? (That of the 'frightened' email recipient.)

On edit: Whoa! And lo and behold, we have the Third woman! Yeah, could be simple jealousy. Wouldn't be the first to be taken down this way. I still believe it's been contrived, though. Possible early take-down of a potential 2016 candidate?
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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby kelley » Sun Nov 11, 2012 5:14 pm

is petraeus wearing a toupee? or a beret made of human hair? or is it an iraqi scalp?

or is it just an awful haircut? how do women go for this kind of guy?
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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby seemslikeadream » Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:46 pm

As information dribbles out about the scandal that upended the career of the most influential national security official of his generation, a host of questions remain unanswered. It's not clear, for example, whether the FBI obtained a warrant to read Petraeus' email, or merely reviewed messages he sent that resided in Broadwell's account.

It's also unclear why the FBI did not notify anyone in the White House that the CIA director had been caught up in an investigation. Doug Heye, a spokesman for Rep. Eric Cantor, said Cantor had a conversation with an FBI whistle-blower about the affair and potential “national security concerns.”

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But when Cantor raised the matter with the FBI, Heye said, he was told the agency was not able to confirm or deny any investigation, and that all necessary steps were being taken to make sure no confidential information was at risk.

U.S. officials have said that there are no indications Petraeus improperly shared classified information with Broadwell. While some observers have suggested that a CIA director carrying on an affair is subject to blackmail, former CIA officials say extramarital affairs are common at all levels of the CIA, and typically are only viewed as a security problem if the officer is involved with a foreigner or a someone who poses a risk.

Former CIA officer Bob Baer said on CNN last week -- without offering evidence -- that several former CIA directors had extramarital affairs that were ignored.


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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby barracuda » Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:48 pm

We're finally getting some good dirt. Not sure how a State Department liaison isn't a government employee, though. There's something vaguely Kardashianistic about the photo below.

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Natalie Khawam, Gen. David Petraeus, Dr. Scott Kelley, his wife Jill Kelley
and Holly Petraeus, the wife of Gen. David Petraeus, watching the Gasparilla
parade from the comfort of tent on the Kelleys front lawn on Jan. 30. 2010, in Tampa, Fla.


Jill Kelley, 37, of Tampa, Fla., reportedly alerted the FBI several months ago about threatening emails she had received from Petraeus alleged mistress, biographer Paula Broadwell, a senior military official told the Associated Press.

The alarm sounded by Kelley, the State Department's liaison to the military's Joint Special Operations Command, got the FBI investigation rolling and uncovered the former four-star general's extramarital affir with Broadwell, authorities have said.

It was not immediately clear if Patraeus and Kelley were also engaging in romantic maneuvers of their own, but a person who knows both them told the AP that Kelley saw Petraeus often.

In 2010, Kelley and her husband, Scott, invited Petraeus and his wife, Holly, to be their guests at the annual Gasparilla parade in Tampa. At the time, Petraeus ran the U.S. Central Command from nearby MacDill Air Force Base. A family website shows photos of the general with one of the Kelleys' children.

Broadwell, 40, who wrote the biography "All In: The Education of General David Patraeus," has yet to publicly comment on the scandal that has rocked Washington and the U.S. security community.

The threatening emails Kelley received from Broadwell warked her to "stay away from" Petraeus, according to sources with knowledge of the messages.

A source told the Wall Street Journal that Broadwell, who lives in North Carolina, suspected Kelley was in a romantic relationship with Petraeus.

The FBI probe into the menacing emails uncovered other exchages between Broadwell and Patraeus that made clear their relationship had gone beyond professional, including one that talked about "sex under a desk."

President Obama accepted the 60-year-old Petraeus' resignation Friday, just three days after winning re-election.

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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby Elvis » Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:24 pm

barracuda wrote:We're finally getting some good dirt. Not sure how a State Department liaison isn't a government employee, though. There's something vaguely Kardashianistic about the photo below.


It seems that since you posted that NY Daily News some info was added:

The alarm sounded by Kelley, the unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base, got the FBI investigation rolling and uncovered the former four-star general's extramarital affir with Broadwell, authorities have said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ap-source-target-emails-petraeus-paramour-state-department-military-liaison-article-1.1200299#ixzz2BxfLCiYm


What the hell is an unpaid social liason?

Kardashianistic-wise, I was first and foremost struck by the brunettes' head tilts.
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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby justdrew » Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:35 pm

it would be someone who volunteers to show soldiers a good time, lot of people overseas, etc, socially isolated form the civilian world, etc, these liaisons would be a semi-informal way to get soldiers a bit of a social life. Like taking them to a parade. "I love a parade"

I'm not implying that such liaisons arrange "comfort persons" - it's actually probably on the up and up.
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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby justdrew » Sun Nov 11, 2012 10:13 pm

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/petraeus-cult-2/

When it came out that CIA Director David Petraeus had an affair with his hagiographer, I got punked. “It seems so obvious in retrospect. How could you @attackerman?” tweeted @bitteranagram, complete with a link to a florid piece I wrote for this blog when Petraeus retired from the Army last year. (“The gold standard for wartime command” is one of the harsher judgments in the piece.) I was so blind to Petraeus, and my role in the mythmaking that surrounded his career, that I initially missed @bitteranagram’s joke.

But it’s a good burn. Like many in the press, nearly every national politician, and lots of members of Petraeus’ brain trust over the years, I played a role in the creation of the legend around David Petraeus. Yes, Paula Broadwell wrote the ultimate Petraeus hagiography, the now-unfortunately titled All In. But she was hardly alone. (Except maybe for the sleeping-with-Petraeus part.) The biggest irony surrounding Petraeus’ unexpected downfall is that he became a casualty of the very publicity machine he cultivated to portray him as superhuman. I have some insight into how that machine worked.

...

But by the time President Obama tapped Petraeus to run the Afghanistan war in 2010, something had changed. Petraeus’ mouth was saying “counterinsurgency,” with its focus on protecting civilians from violence, but in practice, he was far more reliant on air strikes and commando raids. He was even touting enemy body counts as measurements of success, which was completely antithetical to counterinsurgency doctrine, and his staff’s insistance that nothing had changed sounded hollow.

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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby 8bitagent » Sun Nov 11, 2012 10:37 pm

Petraeus was the single card Bush used to step the flow of hate toward his policy. Petraeus was his golden ticket. Hey sure we lied to go to war and got a lot of people killed...but look! It's all good, such a respected visionary strategist is on board now! He can do no wrong. He's Jesus!

Petraeus to me is what Empire Inc. throws out there to show that no no no, the CIA and military really are about good. While of course, Bradley Manning, Assange, etc are evil. Saddam/bin Laden evil!
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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby barracuda » Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:01 am

Xeni Jardin has kindly provided a great roundup of the various threads woven together in this rich tapestry of bullshit here.
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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby hava007 » Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:08 am

Its good then that he is shamed and diminished, he might turn on Bush sometime.

From the perspective of another culture, after feeling the hand of other types of oppression, we are better off without the USSR (and with a much diminished Russia), and perhaps some of the Arab themes are not so great either, once they have it their way. But we are also learning that our saviors (Britain, US etc.) are not as good as they made us think they were, lots of pedophiliac psychos, and nazis, in power. Recently, also seeing the limits of the "Democracy jive" (assange is a good challenge that brings it to light, a man that should have been championed, is persecuted...).




8bitagent wrote:Petraeus was the single card Bush used to step the flow of hate toward his policy. Petraeus was his golden ticket. Hey sure we lied to go to war and got a lot of people killed...but look! It's all good, such a respected visionary strategist is on board now! He can do no wrong. He's Jesus!

Petraeus to me is what Empire Inc. throws out there to show that no no no, the CIA and military really are about good. While of course, Bradley Manning, Assange, etc are evil. Saddam/bin Laden evil!
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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby 8bitagent » Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:42 am

Haha...so now the official mainstream limited hangout conspiracy is that the Obama administration waited til after the election to fire Patreaus.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11 ... ation?lite

Yeah, Im sure that's the big prize waiting to be uncovered.

Also, that's an interesting theory about the Benghazi attack, that it was a neocon linked scheme to discredit Obama. Wouldnt doubt it. The hate against Obama by some is that intense.
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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:14 pm

Petraeus was no doubt seen by the Israelis as an enemy to be neutralized.

Jebsen is on the board of directors of the distinctly warlike Hudson Institute, where Scooter Libby, Douglas Feith, Michael Ledeen, and practically every neocon you’ve ever heard of have found refuge.

Broadwell’s actions — sending emails that were bound to be traced back to her — appear to make little sense on the surface. But if the goal of luring a 60-year-old geezer into an affair with a much younger woman was to expose him, and get him fired, then surely her antics succeeded in accomplishing that goal.


A Covert Affair:
Petraeus Caught in the Honeypot?
by Justin Raimondo, November 12, 2012

The outing of Gen. David Petraeus as an adulterer, and his subsequent resignation as CIA Director, was carried out by an unknown FBI “whistleblower” who leaked the facts of the FBI investigation into the General’s private life to Rep. Eric Cantor. The New York Times reports:

“Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, said Saturday an F.B.I. employee whom his staff described as a whistle-blower told him about Mr. Petraeus’s affair and a possible security breach in late October, which was after the investigation had begun.

“’I was contacted by an F.B.I. employee concerned that sensitive, classified information may have been compromised and made certain Director Mueller was aware of these serious allegations and the potential risk to our national security,’ Mr. Cantor said in a statement.

“Mr. Cantor talked to the person after being told by Representative Dave Reichert, Republican of Washington, that a whistle-blower wanted to speak to someone in the Congressional leadership about a national security concern. On Oct. 31, his chief of staff, Steve Stombres, called the F.B.I. to tell them about the call.”

The FBI probe apparently started in late spring, when several people associated with Petraeus — not just the one woman, as has been reported elsewhere — received harassing emails. The emails were traced to 40-year-old Paula Broadwell, national security analyst, military intelligence veteran, and author of a biography of Petraeus. Authorities believed his email account may have been hacked, and this led to a remarkable irony: the CIA chief’s emails were monitored, without his knowledge, whereupon it was discovered Broadwell may have either had access to his account or tried to obtain access. In any case, in the course of their spying, FBI monitors discovered a large volume of emails to and from Broadwell. Looking for evidence of a security breach, all they found was evidence of a “human drama,” as one anonymous FBI official put it: an illicit affair between Petraeus and Broadwell.

Petraeus was only informed of the investigation on October 25 or 26. So here we have the astonishing fact of the CIA’s head honcho being spied on for a period of months by our own law enforcement officials.

Or maybe it wasn’t a simple case of complaints about “harassing” or threatening emails. Fox News avers:

“The FBI had been investigating an unrelated and much broader case before stumbling on the affair. Fox News has learned that during the course of this investigation, the name of biographer Paula Broadwell came up. The FBI followed that lead and in doing so, uncovered his affair with her.”

What was this “much broader case”? Almost certainly it was a counterintelligence investigation, i.e. a pushback against efforts by some foreign entity to penetrate or otherwise compromise US secrets. We can only guess at the specifics, however we do know that in the course of that investigation Broadwell’s name “came up.”

On the surface, at least, Broadwell is not the sort of person whose name would come up in a counterintelligence investigation: a West Point graduate, where she earned degrees in political geography and systems engineering, she seems like the veritable embodiment of All-American
red-white-and-blue super-patriotism. This biographical account on her high school website says

“Paula pursued a military intelligence career abroad, serving in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During her service, especially after 9-11, Paula’s intensity was directed toward the war against terror; her contributions and efforts to thwart terrorism have been commended by the U.S. Army and by Europe’s Special Operations Forces Commanding General. In this arena, she has planned counter-terrorism initiatives presented to NATO and worked on transnational counter-terrorism issues with foreign and domestic agencies, U.S. Special Forces, and the FBI.”

Graduate studies at the University of Denver in Middle East studies enabled her to travel to “Jordan and Israel,” and make a swing through the Persian Gulf and Europe where she spoke at various conferences. This triumphal tour was capped by a Harvard fellowship “for study in Syria and Iran.”

While Broadwell’s current academic affiliation is with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, her previous post was deputy director of the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. The Center, according to its self-description, “distinguishes itself by a philosophy that maintains counter-terrorism should be predictive, preventive and preemptive, with the latter being a last resort.” Founded in 2005, the Jebsen Center was made possible by the generous donation of one Jan Henrik Jebsen, heir to the Norwegian shipping fortune, who gave $1.3 million to set it up. Jebsen, a former investment banker with Lazard Freres, is the principal of Gamma Applied Visions Group, an international octopus with tentacles all over the place: part arms dealer and weapons developer, part “green” energy company. As one might expect from someone who has so much of his multi-billion dollar fortune invested in making and selling armaments, Jebsen is on the board of directors of the distinctly warlike Hudson Institute, where Scooter Libby, Douglas Feith, Michael Ledeen, and practically every neocon you’ve ever heard of have found refuge.

While, in true neocon fashion, Hudson scholars conjure a wide diversity of imminent “threats” to the US, including China and Russia, their main focus is the threat of Islamist radicalism, especially as it impacts Israel. Indeed, Hudson operates inside Israel, where it pushes the far-rightist views of the most extreme elements in Israeli society: the settler movement, and the faction of Likud angling for war with Iran. It has also focused its attention on purging universities of academics who don’t toe the right-wing ultra-nationalist Likudnik line.

More recently, former Hudson president and “trustee emeritus” Max Singer — who has since moved to Israel, where, as a “public policy consultant” at Bar Ilan University, he spends his time inciting violence against Palestinians — is on a mission to protect Israel from the alleged threat posed by the President of the United States.

The Jebsen Center has been equally useful to the neocons. Richard H. Schultz, head of Tufts’ International Studies program (of which the Center is a part) was a signatory to the Project for a New American Century’s “open letter” to President Bush urging war with Iraq and a number of other Middle Eastern actors in the wake of 9/11. Here he is recommending the importation of Israeli “anti-terrorist” techniques to pacify the restless natives of Iraq. Here is another Jebsen Center scholar describing alleged terrorist actions engaged in by Iran worldwide. And then there’s the testimony of this guy:

“The idea of overthrowing the Iranian government through covert but peaceful means is not original. The project was first brought to my attention in August 2006 when I worked as an intern research assistant at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Diplomacy’s Jebsen Center for Counter-terrorism. I worked for the then director of the center Brigadier General Russell Howard (Ret.) on a project titled Bringing Down Iran Without Firing A Shot. I wasn’t very experienced in the world of covert operations in the field or in the academic realm but I was very interested in becoming involved in it. General Howard, on the other hand, was not only a counter-terrorism strategist but a veteran Special Forces officer, an academic, and a tutor. It was General Howard who introduced me to the idea of targeting factors specific to Iran in order to adapt to the country’s specific needs. He had six factors which he believed were important: The military use of ongoing insurgencies within Iran, political strife, economic strife, declining oil revenues, demographics, and deteriorating infrastructure.”

Interestingly, in November of 2006, during her tenure at the Jebsen Center, Broadwell led a group of Fletcher School students on a trip to New York City to meet with then Iranian UN representative Javad Zarif. Both are alumni of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

All this establishes a context that goes far beyond the titillating details of the alleged affair between Petraeus and Broadwell — and this is no doubt what set alarm bells ringing in the intelligence community when it was revealed. Is there really any need to point out the uses of the “honeypot” in intelligence-gathering and other covert activities regularly engaged in by spooks of all nations? From Mata Hari to the Mossad agent who lured Israeli nuclear scientist Mordecahi Vanunu, sex is a time-honored weapon in the war of spy-vs-spy. A secret affair with the CIA Director is the equivalent of the Honeypot Olympics, and we have to ask: was the remarkably fit Ms. Broadwell a lure? If so, she’s won a Gold Medal.

Broadwell’s actions — sending emails that were bound to be traced back to her — appear to make little sense on the surface. But if the goal of luring a 60-year-old geezer into an affair with a much younger woman was to expose him, and get him fired, then surely her antics succeeded in accomplishing that goal.

So who would have an interest in getting rid of Petraeus? Here’s where the Cantor connection comes in. The tip by an anonymous “FBI employee” that wound up in Cantor’s office two weeks ago came through Rep. David Reichert, Republican of Washington state, who has a friend who knows the whistleblower. Cantor then spoke to the whistleblower directly, who put him in touch with FBI Director Mueller.

Cantor is a great friend of Israel, and Petraeus — not so much. The General was attacked, as you’ll recall, by partisans of the Lobby, including Abe Foxman, when he delivered testimony before Congress citing Israel as a strategic liability in the Middle East. As the executor of the new Obamaite policy of sidling up to Islamists, not only in Libya but also in Syria and Egypt, Petraeus was no doubt seen by the Israelis as an enemy to be neutralized.

Broadwell’s affiliation with the Jebsen Center, and the Center’s connection to the neoconservative network, sets the scene: a young, attractive woman with impeccable national security credentials throws herself at Petraeus, and he takes the bait. Whether she’s been recruited by a foreign intelligence agency at this point or not is irrelevant: he’s already put himself in a vulnerable position, and there are any number of actors on the international stage more than willing to press their advantage.

Will we ever know the full story? At this point, the story is so hot that it may burn the cover story — “it’s all about sex” — right off the wrapper. Because there’s more — a lot more — here than meets the eye. When Cantor pledged to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he and his fellow Republicans “will serve as a check on the administration” in regard to the President’s policy toward Israel, he was clearly aligning himself with a foreign leader against American interests as perceived by the White House. But would he really go this far — deliberately taking down a key figure, one beloved by Republicans, in order to keep his promise to Netanyahu?

Stay tuned to this space, because this story is moving fast….

Update: This morning [11/12/12] the New York Times reports:

“F.B.I. agents interviewed Ms. Broadwell for the first time the week of Oct. 21, and she acknowledged the affair, a government official briefed on the matter said. She also voluntarily gave the agency her computer. In a search, the agents discovered several classified documents, which raised the additional question of whether Mr. Petraeus had given them to her. She said that he had not. Agents interviewed Mr. Petraeus the following week. He also admitted to the affair but said he had not given any classified documents to her. The agents then interviewed Ms. Broadwell again on Friday, Nov. 2, the official said.”

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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:51 pm

In speech, Paula Broadwell raised Benghazi details
Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY
She spoke publicly about CIA director David Petraeus and events in Libya at a forum at the University of Denver Oct. 26.

11:14AM EST November 12. 2012 - In October, Paula Broadwell, the woman at the center of the David Petraeus adultery case, spoke publicly about events surrounding the Benghazi attack that appeared to go beyond what was in the public record at the time.

Broadwell, co-author of a biography about Petraeus, was speaking at the University of Denver Oct. 26 and responded to questions about the attack on the U.S. Consulate that led to the death of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.

"Now I don't know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually -- had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that's still being vetted," she said.

Eli Lake, writing for The Daily Beast, reported that it is possible that Broadwell was confusing details of a story on Fox News that day that claimed that three of the Libyan attackers were briefly held at a CIA annex in Benghazi, not the consulate, before being turned over to the local militia.

WATCH: Broadwell's 40-minute speech

Lake also reported that the CIA on Sunday denied the claim that prisoners were held at the annex, which has not been reported elsewhere.

In her remarks, Broadwell also talked about Petraeus' involvement in the Benghazi situation as CIA director.

"The challenging thing for General Petraeus is that in his new position he is not allowed to communicate with the press," she told the audience. "So he's known all of this, they had correspondence with the CIA station chief in Libya. Within 24 hours they kind of knew what was happening."

The remarks are contained in a 40-minute speech by Broadwell, a West Point graduate and military officer, in which she discussed her military background, how she met Petraeus and elements of his personal life, such as his transition from military officer to director of the CIA.

Petraeus resigned on Friday, citing his "poor judgment" over the extramarital affair.
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Re: David Petraeus resigns as CIA chief citing affair

Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:44 pm

"This is about something else entirely, and the truth will come out," Paul Krantz, the father of Petraeus's mistress Paula Broadwell told the Daily News from his home in Bismarck, North Dakota. "There is a lot more that is going to come out … you wait and see. There's a lot more here than meets the eye."
....
One member of the Obama administration, attorney general Eric Holder, was informed of the investigation "by late summer", the Wall Street Journal quoted US officials as saying.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/no ... -broadwell



Feinstein says we want the trip report (Benghazi) from Petraeus...we're told it would be turned over and now they say they don't have it...MSNBC


CIA denies it detained militants in Benghazi.
(AP) – 33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA is denying an assertion made by David Petraeus' biographer and girlfriend that the agency held militants in Libya before the Sept. 11 attack.
During a talk last month at the University of Denver, author Paula Broadwell said the CIA had detained people at a secret facility in Benghazi, and the attack on the U.S. Consulate there was an effort to free those prisoners.
President Barack Obama issued an executive order in January 2009 stripping the CIA of its authority to take prisoners. The move means the CIA can no longer operate secret jails across the globe as it had done under the administration of President George W. Bush.
CIA spokesman Preston Golson said "any suggestion that the agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless.
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