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Originally Posted by onwebcam
It wasn't an embassy or a consulate. Just because an Ambassador was there for a day or two doesn't make it either. It was nothing but a CIA gun running operation and labeled a consulate after the incident.
Did you ever consider it was another government whom might not like the idea of us sending to weapons to say, Syria? Because that's what Stevens was there for.
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It was a consulate. And I don't understand why are you harping on this point.
Perhaps you don't understand how this works. If the United States government decides it needs a diplomatic mission in any city in any country, it sets up a consulate. A consulate is basically an embassy, but smaller. It operates under the same rules as an embassy. If the United States government decides it wanted a diplomatic presence in Benghazi, it sets up a consulate - even if the entire diplomatic presence is nothing more than a CIA front. The difference between an embassy, a consulate, and a regular building.... Is nothing more than some paperwork the US government filed with the new Lybian government.
This is not something that Obama set up, that Bush set up, or Clinton set up.. This is the way the United States government has been setting up the CIA using diplomatic missions since the CIA was created. Most governments do this.
Is this consulate a CIA front? Most likely yes. And your point is? That the CIA was running an operation in another country? Surprise! I bet you three out of four consulates are running ops for the CIA. But the President, the State Department, the CIA, etc, will never admit that in public.
Do you think Ron Paul is going to do any differently?