What was Ambassador Stevens doing on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, a hotbed of Islamic jihadists, in the first place? Was he involved in a covert program for shipping arms out of Libya to Syrian rebels, with Turkey being used as an intermediary? Circumstantial evidence points in that direction. On September 11, according to his diary passages, Stevens met with Mahmoud Mufti, a shipping company owner, and Ali Akin, the Turkish Consul General.  Stevens may also have been involved in efforts to buy American-made weapons back from jihadists involved in the war against Qaddafi. They were among the rebels whom may have previously received the arms through the Qatar channel. The purpose of such a buy-back program would have been to remove any finger-prints of U.S. involvement in arming them in the first place.

By her own admission, Hillary Clinton advocated helping to arm the Syrian rebels, just as she did with respect to the Libyan rebels. It is hard to conceive that Ambassador Stevens would have been involved in any activities related to arms flowing into or out of Libya without her knowledge. In any event, Hillary was well aware of Stevens’ presence in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Part of his mission, according to congressional testimony provided months later by Stevens’ top deputy in Libya, Greg Hicks, was to help prepare the way for Clinton’s planned trip to Libya in December 2012 when she hoped to announce the conversion of the Benghazi mission to a permanent post.

What followed the Benghazi attack was a scramble by the Obama administration, including Hillary Clinton’s State Department, to cover its tracks. It started with concocting a false narrative about the cause of the attack. Although senior officials knew within hours of the attack that it was the work of jihadist terrorists, an obscure producer of an anti-Muslim video was made the scapegoat and subsequently jailed. Hillary was at the center of this scapegoating, telling the father of one of the fallen Americans that the administration will “make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”

It is unclear whether Marc Turi actually sold any weapons to Qatar himself. But he too became a convenient scapegoat for the Obama administration. Going after Turi for alleged falsehoods in his application to sell arms to Qatar would help deflect attention from its own covert arms transfers through Qatar to rebel forces in Libya, and possibly through other channels such as Turkey to rebel forces in Syria.

Turi had been investigated and his home searched shortly after his application to sell arms to Qatar was approved in 2011. However, it was not until 2014 that he was indicted for allegedly listing Qatar and the United Arab Emirates falsely as the end users for the arms he was selling that were, according to the indictment, actually intended for individuals in Libya. Of course, even if true, this was the very type of arming of the Libyan opposition by “private security experts” that Hillary had written so positively about in 2011. Turi summed up his own predicament when he said, as quoted by Fox News: "At some point, I may be that internet video excuse."

As part of the Obama administration’s efforts to make Turi the fall guy, it made an all-out effort to block testimony relevant to Turi’s defense from being heard by the grand jury considering Turi’s indictment. The testimony had to do with the U.S. government’s own covert involvement in arming the rebel forces. David Manners, who had served as Central Intelligence Agency Chief of Station in Prague and in Amman, Jordan, and served as executive assistant to the Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, tried multiple times to explain such covert arms transfers to the grand jury. The government’s prosecuting attorney stopped him. Even after being asked by a member of the grand jury whether the United States government, either directly or indirectly, supplied weapons to the Libyan Transitional National Council, Mr. Manners was stopped from providing a full answer. Prosecutors control grand jury proceedings and, in this case, the U.S. prosecutor used his power to obstruct a relevant line of inquiry critical to Turi’s defense.

In furtherance of her own cover up, Hillary Clinton also destroyed thousands of e-mails from her personal account that was used in part for official State Department business. She also wiped her home-installed server clean. Hillary herself and the State Department have withheld two Sept. 29, 2012 emails relating to Libya between Clinton and Jake Sullivan, Cheryl Mills and spokesman Philippe Reines. Sullivan, as mentioned earlier, had written the glowing memo more than a year earlier lauding Hillary’s leadership of the fight to bring down Qaddafi, and received the note from Hillary saying that “The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered." 

Hillary must have forgotten all about this idea of hers by the time of her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 23, 2013. When asked by Republican Senator Rand Paul whether the CIA annex in Benghazi, which it so happens Ambassador Stevens had reportedly visited shortly before the September 11, 2012 attack, was “involved with procuring, buying, selling, obtaining weapons,” including the transfer of any weapons to other countries such as Turkey, Hillary’s reply was “I do not know.” She referred Senator Paul to the CIA.

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