[WND.com  01.29.15]

WND EXCLUSIVE

ADMIRALS, GENERALS: PENTAGON TAPES INDICT HILLARY

 

New revelations back damning conclusion of Benghazi commission

 

JEROME R. CORSI 

Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff reporter. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Who Really Killed Kennedy?"

 

 

NEW YORK - Recordings of top Pentagon officials in 2011 strongly criticizing Hillary Clinton for leading a State Department "march to war" against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 and for working with the Muslim Brotherhood confirm the conclusions of the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi, according to members who spoke to WND.

 

CCB members said the recordings revealed by the Washington Times provide additional evidence to support the group's interim report concluding the Obama administration "changed sides" in Libya, rejecting an effort by Gadhafi to abdicate and choosing instead to arm al-Qaida-affiliated militia seeking to forcibly oust the dictator.

Last week, WND reported retired Adm. James Lyons' conclusion the Obama administration could have ousted Gadhafi peacefully by accepting a deal brokered in March 2011 by retired Rear Adm. Chuck Kubic with AFRICOM in Germany.

"The release of the Pentagon secret tapes by the Washington Times today validates the CCB interim report that the Libyan war was totally unnecessary, since it now has been validated that Gadhafi was willing to abdicate and that he had no intention of causing a humanitarian crisis, as promoted by Hillary's State Department," said Lyons, a former four-star admiral who served as the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific and a founding member of the CCB.

The CCB - comprised of 17 retired admirals and generals; former intelligence agents; active anti-terrorist experts; media specialists; and former congressmen - has been conducting its own investigation and working behind the scenes for the past year and a half to ensure Congress uncovers the truth of what happened in Benghazi and holds people accountable.

"It is long past time that the Obama administration and especially his then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton come clean about why they were so determined to turn on Gadhafi - our ally in the war against al-Qaida - and instead chose to arm and support al-Qaida militias fighting to overthrow him," said Clare Lopez, a former career operations officer with the CIA and currently vice president for research at the Washington-based Center for Security Policy.

Lopez said it's "critical to note that Gadhafi was actively engaged with Department of Defense officials to arrange discussions about his possible abdication and exile when that promising development was squashed by the Obama White House."

"The Citizens' Commission on Benghazi has been asking 'Why?' for well over a year now," she said. "It is time the American people and the families of those who fought and gave their lives at Benghazi in September 2012 were told why those brave Americans had to die at all, much less die alone with no effort made to save them."

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, another CCB founding member, told WND in an email that the Washington Times disclosure puts additional pressure on Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., to subpoena Clinton and other key Obama administration officials to testify soon in public before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

"Delays by Gowdy are unnecessary at this time," Vallely insisted. "Gowdy can press forward now as he does have sufficient intelligence and documents to call all witnesses and issue subpoenas as necessary."

"Additional delays will only give the obstructionists in the Obama White House, the State Department and the Democrats in Congress time to thwart the efforts of the select committee," Vallely said. "Gowdy needs to call immediately former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Obama administration CIA Director General David Petraeus and former director of both the CIA and the Department of Defense Leon Panetta, as well as General Dempsey, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."

Retired Air Force Gen. Thomas McInerney, also a founding member of the CCB, was equally disturbed over the content of the Pentagon recordings revealed by the Washington Times.

"It becomes obvious these Pentagon tapes reveal a starting point by the Obama administration to start switching sides by taking down Gadhafi when all informed analysts knew that Benghazi was the incubator for radical Islam in sending suicide bombers to Iraq to kill American troops," McInerney said.

"Why the administration wanted to do this is bewildering, but the evidence continues to grow," McInerney added, citing as evidence President Obama's enthusiastic support for former President Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in his country, as well as the Obama administration determination to exchange five Muslim "high value targets" from Guantanamo for U.S. Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by Taliban-affiliated radicals in Afghanistan after he allegedly deserted his unit.

The disclosure of the Pentagon recordings also prompted CCB members to comment on the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on the Obama administration.

"The war in Libya was a manufactured war produced in part by the influence the Muslim Brotherhood exerted on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with the Muslim Brotherhood penetrating her office through the influence of Huma Mahmood Abedin, Clinton's longtime chief of staff, who transferred to the State Department to serve as Clinton's aide," Lopez added.

WND has reported extensively Abedin's family origins in the Muslim Brotherhood and her work for a dozen years as an assistant editor for the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs for the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs. The organization was founded by her late father and directed by her mother with the full backing of the Muslim World League, an Islamic organization in the Saudi holy city of Mecca founded by Muslim Brotherhood leaders.

"We can all recall who was Hillary Clinton's close adviser during this critical period of time: her deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin - of the Muslim Brotherhood Abedin family - and with her own years-long relationships with Brotherhood and al-Qaida supporters," Lopez said.

"Remember that Huma Abedin's family's Saudi 'godfather' is Abdullah Omar Nasseef, the founder of Rabita Trust, an al-Qaida funding institution that was shut down after 9/11. These were the connections advising our secretary of state - it's called an influence operation."

Lopez said that also during that time, among the closest advisers to John Brennan, now head of the CIA, and Dennis McDonough, currently White House chief of staff, when they were on the National Security Council was the son of the Sudanese grand mufti, Imam Mohamed Magid, the president of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Society of North America, ISNA.

ISNA was listed by the Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, which convicted the organization and its leaders of funding the terrorist organization Hamas, Lopez noted.

Magid, imam at All Dulles Area Muslim Society, near Washington, D.C., is a member of the board of advisers to the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Violent Extremism working group.