{"id":14490,"date":"2012-09-29T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2012-09-29T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T18:42:53","slug":"benghazi-attack-a-major-blow-to-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/09\/benghazi-attack-a-major-blow-to-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"Benghazi Attack a \u2018Major Blow\u2019 to CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/libya_map12.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14491\" title=\"Libya_map12\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/libya_map12.jpg?resize=418%2C328\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>CIA Forced to Evacuate Spies After Consulate Sacked<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>by Jason Ditz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The attack earlier this month on the Benghazi consulate, which killed four Americans including the US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was a blow to a lot of people. It cost the State Department its ambassador, it cost the<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/09\/17\/protecting-the-lie-is-obama-admins-refusal-to-come-clean-on-benghazi-a-political-choice\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Obama campaign<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> the claim of Libya as a big \u201cwin\u201d and it cost the Libyan government the<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/09\/21\/libyan-interior-ministry-we-likely-wont-catch-benghazi-attackers\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">pretense<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">of security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Lost in all the people who suffered from this, however, is the CIA, which officials say suffered a<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/24\/world\/africa\/attack-in-libya-was-major-blow-to-cia-efforts.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">\u201ccatastrophic\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> loss after the destruction of the US Consulate, because it forced them to withdraw about a dozen spies who were staying there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Not that the CIA was apparently doing a very good job. Even though officials say that they were surveilling a number of targets in Benghazi, and even though Libya was openly warning them about security risks, the US was caught entirely unawares by the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The depth of CIA \u201ccooperation\u201d with the State Department isn\u2019t well documented, though it has been established in previous incidents that the CIA has used the pretense of embassy employees to put spies in countries with the claim of diplomatic immunity, as with Raymond Davis in Pakistan, who the US claimed had \u201cimmunity\u201d after he murdered two people in Lahore and after they<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/feb\/20\/us-raymond-davis-lahore-cia\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">admitted he was a CIA spy<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">just pretending to be a consular employee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Libyan government has not commented on the story, so it is unclear if they were aware of the CIA operations in Benghazi or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/09\/23\/benghazi-attack-a-major-blow-to-cia\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIA Forced to Evacuate Spies After Consulate Sacked by Jason Ditz The attack earlier this month on the Benghazi consulate, which killed four Americans including..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,84,189,97],"tags":[228,197,226,242,345],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-statements","category-us-military","category-us-news","tag-colonialism","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-libya","tag-reactionary-watch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Libya_map12_14490_04738.jpg?fit=418%2C328&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}