Free Benghazi by Brandon Webb Page A

they did not want the press investigating the true motivations behind the assault.
    Did Ansar Al-Sharia get inspired after seeing the Egyptians storming the US embassy in Cairo the day before? Did they get offended by an internet video? Did they choose 9/11 as the date for the attack because of the obvious symbolism? Maybe. But another contributing factor was JSOC operations in Libya, which kicked the hornets’ nest and pissed off the militia.
    The other media circus of the last year was about high-level leaks coming from the White House after the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan. One of these leaks came from a senior official who fed information to The New Yorker . Nicholas Schmidle was spoon-fed the story because his father is a general. The New Yorker had to sit on the story for months in order to make it appear as if Schmidle were consulting with sources, to create the illusion of actual investigative journalism as opposed to government propaganda, which is what the resulting article, “Getting Bin Laden,” is. Schmidle’s work on the Bin Laden raid was wildly inaccurate because he was being fed garbage designed to make the Obama administration look good.
    It is an open secret in Washington, DC, that John Brennan is a world-class windbag. Previous investigations by SOFREP, published in our e-book No Easy Op , exposed some of Brennan’s antics. His activities have continued unabated since then as he runs highly compartmentalized secret operations from his seat as Obama’s counterterrorism adviser. He has long had his eye on becoming the Director of Central Intelligence or Director of National Intelligence but will find it challenging going through the confirmation process because of the political baggage he carries due to past support for so-called “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.”
    With tacit support from Michael Vickers and James Clapper, Brennan works to exploit a number of loopholes and utilize the Obama administration’s creative interpretations of Title 10 and Title 50 powers to launch operations across North Africa and the Middle East, with Admiral McRaven no doubt happy to be along for the ride.
    These operations may very well be warranted. One of the main targets is known to be Yasin Al-Suri, one of the last major league Al Qaeda leaders. The world will certainly be a better place after JSOC puts a bullet in his head. Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, also known as “Yasin Al-Suri,” is one of the last high-level AQ operatives on the US government’s kill list. With a ten million–dollar bounty on his head from the State Department, Al-Suri is known to be a terrorist facilitator, moving men and money between Iran and Pakistan. Darwinism has taken effect after over a decade of the War on Terror. The dumb terrorist leaders are all dead, and now it is the masterminds who are left.
    The end game for terrorists like Al-Suri is an Islamic caliphate, something which would probably never happen even without US opposition due to larger geopolitical issues, but the idea of a united Sunni insurgency spreading across the Middle East is enough to have Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states nervously wringing their hands in a cold sweat.
    The problem occurs when a bunch of 18th-century tribesmen in sandals with rusty AK–47’s are permitted to wag the dog—that is, when their actions move a multibillion-dollar counter-terrorist apparatus across the world, and its operations begin to get out of control . . . all with a non-elected political appointee running the show.
    Because John Brennan is running his own private war, he is not going through the normal chain of command, and operations are not deconflicted. Ambassador Stevens, for instance, was not read on to the JSOC operations in Libya. He was kept in the dark and ultimately killed in a retaliation that he never could have seen coming. Likewise, the CIA never knew what hit them. They were trying to track down fissile