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NARRATOR: The wave of anger washing over the middle east has now arrived in Liby
a.
UNNAMED FEMALE NARRATOR: Libyan rebels load their weapons as they continue searc
hing for Muammar Qadhafi.
CLIP OF AMBASSADOR CHRIS STEVENS: I dont want to paint an overly rosy picture bec
ause there are also challenges inside the TNC-controlled-area, and one of them i
s security. Weve got a lot of militias and a few police.
NEWS ANCHOR INTERVIEWING SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: How confident are you that a) thes
e folks, we know who they are, and b) theyre not connected to some terrorist orga
nization like al-Qaeda and will not ultimately turn on the United States?
REPORTER TO MCCAIN: Any worries about them?
MCCAIN: Fighting for the opposition? Theyre my heroes.
CLIP OF OBAMA [statement in the White House Rose Garden announcing the deaths of
four Americans in Benghazi]: I strongly condemn, in the strongest terms, this s
hocking attack. Make no mistake, we will bring justice to the killers who attack
ed our people.
CLIPS OF U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N., SUSAN RICE ON THE WEEKEND AFTER 9/11/12 ON
SUNDAY NEWS SHOWS: This is a responsesparked bya heinous, hateful, offensive vide
o.
CLIP OF GREGORY HICKS, CHIEF OF MISSION, U.S. EMBASSY IN TRIPOLI THE NIGHT OF TH
E ATTACKS TESTIFYING BEFORE CONGRESS: This is the first time that a diplomat has
more balls than someone in the military.
CLIP OF HILLARY CLINTON TESTIFYING: We have four dead Americans. Was it because
of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided theyd
go for a walk and kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it
make?
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LAURI DHUE: Welcome to For The Record. Im Laurie Dhue. When For The Record began
investigating the attack in Benghazi, like other news organizations, we hit a l
ot of road blocks. From talking points to timelines, bureaucratic and political
barriers have concealed many of the facts of this story, but before we deliver o
ur findings to you, we want to explain how we conducted our investigations.
Our report comes from individuals who worked in and outside of Libya. One is a f
ormer Navy Rear Admiral and the other was a paid informant for both the FBI and
the CIA.
For The Record vetted and researched the materials they presented to us, in conj
unction with individuals and others and U.S. intelligence agencies.
Our findings also reflect open sourced documents, combined with interviews we co
nducted with individuals who had direct knowledge of the diplomatic and military
operations in the region.
What happened on September 11th, 2012 in Benghazi is one of the biggest news sto
ries in recent memory. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens w
ere murdered that night. Media outlets that have covered this story tend to focu
s on the specific events of that night and the post-attack attempts to limit the
political fall-out.
What is mostly ignored, are the 18 months leading up to the attack on the consul
ate. As you are about to see, this was a period which the United States ignored
a negotiated peace accord and assisted attacking a sovereign nation, and aligned
with forces supporting global jihad.
Tonight were going to show you how the attack on Benghazi is really about a faile
d foreign policy and a covert operation that saw the United States enable, suppo
rt and even arm al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
ANNIE, FORMER FBI AND CIA INFORMANT: Not too longer after 9/11/01 I was recruite
d by U.S. Intelligence, 3-letter agencies to support the efforts for the War on
Terror. I travel extensively overseas, primarily Africa, Middle East and Southwe
st Asia, and have extensive knowledge and capability in the sectors. I am a priv
ate citizen, working in this world.
CHUCK KUBIC, U.S. NAVY REAR ADMIRAL RET: I served in the Navy 32 years. I was a
Navy SEEBEE. I was a combat engineer. I joined an international construction com
pany on their Board of Directors, and president of their International subsidiar
y, and I worked for them for seven years, again, building things around the worl
d, overseas, in Iraq, in Afghanistan.
NARRATOR: After he retired in 2005, Rear Admiral Charles Kubic also oversaw proj
ects in Libya, a nation working to develop closer ties to the West.
A November 2008 State Department report from then-U.S.-Ambassador to Libya, Gene
Cretz notes, the U.S. shares key strategic goals with the government of Libya,
particularly with respect to combating al-Qaeda and the Libyan Islamist Fighting
Group (LIFG).
ANNIE: After 9/11 happened, one of the first stops made in route to Afghanistan,
was to Libya, and they met with different officials there, and Libya, at that p
oint, was very receptive to cooperating and that began the engagement with our i
ntelligence.
NARRATOR: Muammar Qadhafi made the transformation from sworn enemy to an arms-le
ngth U.S. ally. He agreed to destroy his nuclear weapons program in 2003. He als
o provided the U.S. with intelligence against al-Qaeda and worked with the U.S.
to resolve the Darfur conflict.
Despite his support for the War on Terror, Qadhafi was potentially becoming a ma
jor economic threat to the European Union and the U.S.
In a February 2009 cable made public by WikiLeaks, Ambassador Cretz writes about
Qadhafis economic goals to create a unified Africa, which would share a common a
rmy, currency and passport. Cretz was specifically concerned with the stability
of the unified currency, since the entire continent would be dependent upon a cu
rrency backed by Libyas oil exports.
This idea could also jeopardize relations between Libya and EU member states tha
t imported significant amounts of Libyas oil.
FEMALE REPORTER: But some are convinced that intervention into Libya is all abou
t currency, specifically Qadhafis plan to introduce the gold dinar, a single Afri
can currency made from gold, a true sharing of the wealth.
KUBIC: Qadhafi was starting to demand gold for oil. In demanding gold for oil, h
e was threatening the fiat currencies of both Europe and the United States. Ther
e was fear that if this started to take place hold, there would be some very pow
erful interests that would start to lose a lot of money.
UNNAMED FEMALE NARRATOR: Weeks and weeks of protests by young, frustrated Tunisi
an citizens, demanding that their leader step down.
KUBIC: Of course, I was concerned for what was going on in Tunisia, but there wa
sn't any real impact or notice in Libya; the same in Egypt.
Having left Libya on the 10th of February, 2011, everything was stable.
NARRATOR: Then, anti-Qadhafi activists called for a Libyan Day of Rage, on Febru
ary 17th, 2011 to mark the fifth anniversary of 2006 Benghazi demonstration that
turned deadly.
ANNIE: There had been protests in Benghazi before. It wasn't an uncommon occurre
nce, so I didnt really pay too much attention to it until, maybe, two weeks later
, then it became very apparent that something far greater was going on.
The U.S. intelligence community was completely unprepared and caught up by it.
NARRATOR: The rebel forces gained strength. The State Department started to look
for a country that would take Qadhafi in to avoid more violence, so I started t
o make calls to people I know in Africa who could make that decision.
ANNIE: In a couple of instances in the end of February, I received a request fro
m a senior State department person who I had worked with in Libya asking for ass
istance in identifying some countries in Africa that might take Qadhafi in exile
.
Separately, in an official capacity, the intelligence organizations that I work
with asked me to identify who the rebels are.
An example that came to me, suggested identify terrorists specific actionable int
elligence that relates the terrorists within the rebel ranks to the Muslim Broth
erhood, The Hamas, the Hizbollah, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Qaeda core
.
NARRATOR: On March 10th, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified befo
re the House Appropriations Committee, endorsing U.S. support for the Libyan opp
osition.
HILLARY: Our diplomats are hard at work with our allies and partners to isolate,
sanction and pressure Qadhafi to stop the violence against his own people. We a
re reaching out to the opposition inside and outside of Libya.
REPORTER: Was there a humanitarian crisis in Libya?
KUBIC: No. We actually saw reports of media just misleading. Al Jazeera was inte
rviewing people who were supposed to be eye-witnesses that werent even there. The
y were making up stories and then other news media were taking the feed and this
whole illusion of a humanitarian disaster was being created.
NARRATOR: Over the next week, Secretary Clinton met with key anti-Qadhafi leader
s and named State Department diplomat Chris Stevens, liaison to the Libyan oppos
ition.
ANNIE: I saw a disconnect between senior elected officials, Obama, others in Con
gress who were actively jumping the gun, calling for supporting the rebels, armi
ng them, while I knew this information was coming forward that illustrated terro
rists who would be the recipients of any support they were given, and Hillary Cl
inton also being one of them, who was very aggressive in promoting support for t
he rebels.
NARRATOR: On March 17th, 2011 passed a Security [Council] resolution ordering Qa
dhafi to immediately cease-fire, while at the same time, authorizing NATO forces
to take all necessary military action against the Libyan government.
CLIP OF OBAMA: [March 19, 2011] Good afternoon everybody. Today I authorize the
Armed Forces of the United States to begin a limited military action in Libya.
CLIP OF HILLARY: [March 19, 2011] We have every reason to fear that left uncheck
ed, Qadhafi will commit unspeakable atrocities.
KUBIC: I saw what was going on. I couldn't believe it. I had people that I knew
at AFRICAN Command, so rather than calling Washington, I called them, and said, w
hats going on, and I said I was just there in Libya. I had been all over the count
ry. Is there something I can do to help and to see what maybe we can do to resol
ve this?
NARRATOR: Africa Command, known as AFRICOM connected Kubic with Lt. Colonel Bria
n Linvill. He was the military attache to the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli. He repres
ented DoDs and AFRICOMs interests.
KUBIC: I said to him, you know what we really need to do is, under the laws of w
ar, have a 72-hour truce to have discussions between battlefield commanders. He
thought that was a pretty good idea, and so we drafted a four-point agreement.
NARRATOR: March 19th marked the beginning of a three days of ceasefire negotiati
ons. The agreement included a 72-hour truce which would allow Qadhafi to pull ba
ck his troops while the ceasefire terms were negotiated. The entire process woul
d be monitored by African Union representatives.
ANNIE: All indications are that a lot of knowledgeable people in the intelligenc
e community that have the duty to protect national security were trying to do th
eir jobs and stave-off a revolution. They were hopeful that this would work, bec
ause we all understood that there is enough credible evidence to suggest that al
-Qaeda has now moved into Libya and is actively within the rebel opposition, and
it was something none of us could stop or control.
****KUBIC: So we were moving toward having this ceasefire when word got back to
me that higher authorities, the Department of Defense, the White House, had basi
cally cancelled any discussion of a truce.
It became very apparent that this was never about saving lives, that none of tha
t mattered because we had given them all the credible information that was neces
sary to make a good decision and there was a ceasefire on the table that was ign
ored by the White House.
I have to admit that I was shocked, that coming from a president who had won a N
obel Peace prize.
NARRATOR: On March 23rd, NATO began assuming control of Libyan operations, as di
ctated by the U.N. Security resolution in place.
By March 27th, AFRICOM Commander General Carter Hams control was transferred to
NATO commander and Navy Admiral James Stavridas, however, Ham maintained control
of AFRICOM. His liaison, Lt. Col. Linvill was surprised by the move.
KUBIC: Linvill was visibly troubled. He gave the impression that it was Ham did
not step down, he was basically removed, and I told him, we cant stop here, weve g
ot to go talk to Stavridis, weve got to continue on and he said to me, Sir, this i
s coming from the highest levels. I recommend you just leave it alone
NARRATOR: On March 24th in an effort to stave-off further military action agains
t the regime, Qadhafi ordered the release of a detailed report to U.S. intellige
nce operatives that identified al-Qaeda and other extremist ties to the rebels.
ANNIE: The document that Qaddafi provided, the actual intelligence provided on
March 24th was quickly translated, in less than 24 hours and put raw on the des
k of Barack Obama in the Oval Office. It was provided to the White House by rele
vent intelligence agencies, and we thought, you know what? Weve done it. They cant
ignore this information. They cant walk away, theyre going to have to take a step
back, and thats not what happened.
ADMIRAL JAMES STAVRIDIS, NATO SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER, EUROPE & U.S. EUROPEAN C
OMMANDER: We have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al-Qaeda, Hezbo
llah. Weve seen different things, but at this point, I dont have detailed, suffici
ent to say that theres a significant al-Qaeda presence, or any other terrorist pr
esence in and among these folks.
ANNIE: His testimony states, we seen flickers of intelligence on al-Qaeda and HIz
bollah he specifically quotes some information from that report, which indicated
to me that he had read it.
CLIP OF OBAMA: Its fair to say that if we wanted to get weapons into Libya, we pr
obably could. Uh, were looking at all our options at this point.
CLIP OF HILLARY: We have not made any decision about arming rebels or providing
any arms transfers.
NARRATOR: While the Obama administration remained publicly non-committal about s
upplying arms to the Libyan rebels, on March 30, 2011, Reuters reported that Pre
sident Obama has already signed a secret order authorizing the CIA to provide co
vert support to the Libyan opposition, an operation that would become known as Z
ero Footprint.
DISGUISED MAN: Im not exactly sure why it would be called a covert operation beca
use it was anything but covert. Everybody outside the United States absolutely k
new what was going on.
NARRATOR: This man [DISGUISED MAN] is licensed by the State Department to conduc
t approved international arms transfers. He is not permitted to reveal his ident
ity on camera. For The Record asked him if it was possible to deliver weapons to
the rebels without exposing direct U.S. involvement.
DISGUISED MAN: Yes, and thats to outsource that to a foreign ally to handle three
components, procurement, transportation and logistics. Even that part is not 10
0 percent untraceable, but its a good step if you want to eliminate all U.S. invo
lvement.
REPORTER: Is that risky?
DISGUISED MAN: Extremely risky.
CBS EVENING NEWS INTERVIEWING PENTAGON, ANCHOR: Tell us a little bit about this
document the President signed authorizing covert operations and support. What ex
actly would that include?
UNNAMED MAN: Well, it makes it legal for the CIA to open contacts with the rebel
s, but the President would still have to sign off on any specific operation.
ANNIE: We were all shocked that this was happening, and couldn't believe it was
happening and it was after the March 24 intelligence document that was submitted
and put forward, and then we watched senior officials playing out their politic
s agenda on TV, and we were all essentially told to stand down and not do anythi
ng further. I was essentially told to drop it, walk away from all the efforts th
at have been made, all the efforts and information that existed, and why. It was
very apparent that there were some very bad things underway.
QUESTION TO JOHN MCCAIN: Are you actually concerned about the people who are fig
hting for the opposition here? I mean, any worries about them?
MCCAIN: Fighting for the opposition? Theyre my heroes.
NARRATOR: In the Spring of 2011, Senior John McCain was the most senior U.S. pol
itician to visit Libya. As a ranking member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Co
mmittee, McCain had access to privileged intelligence information.
KUBIC: Now, if knew that these rebels were terrorists and had the links, he cert
ainly had to know that, and in the government, that information was cast aside.
NARRATOR: According to federal law, in the event a covert operation is deemed ne
cessary, it is the presidents responsibility to alert the leadership in the House
and Senate, as well as the chairman and ranking members of the Intelligence Com
mittees in both chambers.
In the intelligence community, this group is referred to as the Gang of 8 [Boehn
er, Pelosi, Rogers, Ruppersberger, McConnell, Reid, Feinstein, Chambliss]. Ultim
ately, the Gang of 8, which included leaders from both parties should have known
about Zero Footprint
ANNIE: Zero Footprint is a scheme that was concocted by the administration to s
upply weapons into the Libyan rebel opposition faction while appearing not to be
involved in that activity. It is my knowledge that the scheme that was concocte
d based upon the evidence that Ive seen to this regard, is that the U.A.E. financ
ed the weapons and Qatar was used as the front go-between to handle the logistic
s and shipping of the weapons in and out of the country.
REPORTER: What are the consequences of that?
DISGUISED MAN: The consequences are that you lose the immediate control over the
end-user, and you allow them to handle your logistics and transportation, so th
at it prevents you from identifying who this equipment is going to fall into, so
if you dont put your protocols in place and you dont deliver it to embedded sourc
es, the equipment can end up anywhere and its your name thats going to be on the
end-user [inaudible - statement or receipt?] if it gets transferred to the wrong
personnel.
REPORTER: Are you familiar that that that sort of transaction has happened?
DISGUISED MAN: Ive watched it unfold in Libya.
KUBIC: Well, people might say that it wasn't directly the U.S. doing it, nothing
moved in and out of Libya but for the approval of NATO, so Admiral Stavridis ha
d to authorize any of the armed shipments that came in there and, of course, Chr
is Stevens was in Benghazi, helping to coordinate that armed shipments.
NARRATOR: During this investigation, multiple sources confirmed to For the Recor
d, Stevens had extensive experience in international arms transfers.
JAMES ROSEN, FOX NEWS: March 30, 2011: This trip to Benghazi that Mr. Stevens is
taking, can you just start from zero on that and tell us what thats about? Whos g
oing and
REPORTER: You mean the envoy?
ROSEN: Yes, please.
STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN [I'm guessing]: Hes not theres been no trip yet, but ob
viously it he is an individual who will give us a better assessment once hes able
to go into Libya, and again his safety, frankly, is paramount here.
ANNIE: So you have the involvement of the United States government and NATO allo
wing all of these covert weapons to flow into the country and not giving them pr
oper checks and balances to ensure that they weren't being used by terrorists.
KUBIC: There was an insurgent commander with the Libyan Islamic fighting group,
which I said is part of is on the terrorist group and is the Muslim Brotherhood
link in Libya. This guy, Khattallah [Ahmed Abu Khattalah, also known as Ahmad Bu
khattalah - references Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as Amended 23.22 i
n), he was in the middle of the Libyan revolution. He was the guy who was receiv
ing arms.
NARRATOR: On December 31, 2013, the State Department designated Ahmed Abu Khatta
lah as a global terrorist. He is a senior leader of the group Ansar al-Sharia, k
nown for its extreme hostility toward the West. Khattalah spent most of his adul
t life imprisoned by the Qaddafi regime for his Islamist views, fueling his hatr
ed for the dictator.
UNNAMED WOMAN: For 42 years Muammar Qaddafi's word was law in Libya. He was capt
ured last Thursday by rebel fighters in his hometown of Sirt, and appeared in ce
ll phone video dazed and bloodied, then dead, on public display.
CLIP HILLARY: We came, we saw, he died [laughing].
ANNIE: I wasn't surprised that he was killed. I think that was the intention all
along.
NARRATOR: During the next 11 months, the Islamists in Libya became increasingly
violent, especially in Libya. A report issued for the Senate Select Committee fo
r Intelligence identified 20 separate attacks conducted by armed militia members
using IEDs, grenades and bombs.
ANNIE: I was getting requests in tasking to identify specific targets and threat
s to U.S. persons and facilities in the months leading up to Benghazi, so the in
telligence community was clearly receiving a variety of information and chatter
that there were credible threats.
NARRATOR: Stevens filed a request with the State Department on July 9, 2012 aski
ng for at least 13 additional security agents. His request went unanswered.
In an August 16th, 2012 cable, Stevens described deteriorating conditions in Ben
ghazi, specifically warning of 10 Islamist militia and al-Qaeda training camps,
then one week before the attack on the US Mission on Benghazi, an AFRICOM report
described how the militias were taking advantage of the lax security, yet the S
tate Department again refused to provide additional security for Stevens and he
was to maintain his current security detail, which consisted of the Blue Mountai
n Group, a private British Security firm and members from the February 17th Mart
yrs Brigade, a Libyan militia that would later be complicit in the September 11th
attack on the Consulate.
REPORTER: Why would State, in your opinion disregard what its own Ambassador was
saying?
ANNIE: Absolutely, no idea, and it defies any level of common sense. Is it incom
petence? Possibly. Was there another agenda going on? Possibly. There are a lot
of people who work under the auspices of the State Department stationed overseas
, undercover ops for the CIA. I believe Chris was one of those. I have lots of r
easons as to why I believe that, and I believe that post-revolution and post Qad
hafis death, that the entire operation in Libya became a CIA operation.
NARRATOR: For the Record has learned that the Department of Defense and the FBI
had virtually no knowledge of Operation Zero Footprint, which is consistent with
the US Senate Select Committees finding.
AFRICOM Commander General Carter Ham was not aware a CIA Annex existed in Bengha
zi, at the time of the attacks. As the committee points out, we are puzzled as t
o how the military leadership expected to effectively respond and rescue America
ns in the event of an emergency when it did not even know of the existence of on
e of the U.S. facilities.
Details of the covert weapons operation were tightly guarded among select member
s of Congress, the CIA, the State Department and the White House, who were all t
rying to manage a covert operation that would expose a U.S. policy decision to a
rm al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist militias.
The attack on September 11th, 2012, was on the verge of becoming a political and
diplomatic disaster, two months before a U.S. presidential election.
KUBIC: I just think thats where we are right now, that it needs to be investigate
d. We need to get the answers to the decisions, and when we dig into Benghazi, w
ere going to find that the Benghazi story goes much deeper and it gets back into
an army of the rebels in violation of U.S. law. It gets back into attacking a so
vereign nation without any authority to do so.
SCREEN SHOT: In August 2013, Ahmed Abu Khattalah became the first person charged
by the Department of Justice for his alleged role in the September 2012 Benghaz
i attacks.
AFRICOM representatives declined comment on its alleged role in peace negotiatio
ns in March 2011. They also declined our interview request for Lt. Col. Brian Li
nvill.
A copy of this episode and a request for comment was sent to representatives fro
m the State Dept., CIA, Dept. of Defense, White House, and Congressional intelli
gence committees.
We are awaiting their responses.
End For The Record Transcript
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