The CIA Probably Had Authority To Hold Prisoners At The Secret Benghazi Annex -- Business Insider
In October Paula Broadwell told an audience that the CIA in Benghazi "had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner" at its secret annex.
The CIA flatly denied the claim, saying that the agency "has not had detention authority since January 2009, when Executive Order 13491 was issued. Any suggestion that the Agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless."
Marc Thiessen of the American Enterprise Institute points out that the denial is factually incorrect because while Obama ordered the closure of all CIA detention facilities (i.e. “Black Sites”), the order states that it "does not refer to facilities used only to hold people on a short-term, transitory basis."
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My Comment: I always felt that this has been one of the most under-reported/covered stories from Benghazi .... i.e. did the CIA have a detention center in a secret annex. I do not expect any info or confirmation to come from Washington .... both Republicans and Democrats would want to keep such a facility secret .... the Republicans because they believe that it is necessary, and the Democrats who also believe that it is necessary but with the complication of not wanting their hardcore anti-war constituency to learn about it (especially before the election). I guess we will ultimately learn the truth about Benghazi in about 20-30 years .... if not longer .... but I am surprised that the Washington press corp is not even curious to find out right now.
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