[lbo-talk] Benghazi compound a CIA base, idiot Congresspersons inadvertently reveal on live television

[Joseph Catron]

"The purpose of Wednesday’s hearing of the Oversight and Government
Reform Committee was to examine security lapses that led to the
killing in Benghazi last month of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and
three others. But in doing so, the lawmakers reminded us why
'congressional intelligence' is an oxymoron.

"Through their outbursts, cryptic language and boneheaded questioning
of State Department officials, the committee members left little doubt
that one of the two compounds at which the Americans were killed,
described by the administration as a 'consulate' and a nearby 'annex,'
was a CIA base. They did this, helpfully, in a televised public
hearing ..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-letting-us-in-on-a-secret/2012/10/10/ba3136ca-132b-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html

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