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A powerful and very very smart piece, STAY OUTOF SYRIA by David Bromwich After the troubling revelations of the May 8 Senate hearing on Benghazi, much remains unclear about the attack that killed four Americans last September. Were the killers aiming to prove the incompetence of American power? Or was the assault directed more specifically against CIA operations? How did the White House, the State Department, and the CIA all agree to say so early and wrongly that the attack could have been the spontaneous action of a crowd infuriated by an anti-Muslim video? Why did the administration delete from its talking points the mention of five similar attacks in Libya, and the fact that al-Qaeda-linked forces were known to be active in the vicinity? Read more: nybooks/articles/archives/2013/jun/20/stay-out-syria/
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:49:09 +0000

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