Photo: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThose are strong words, especially coming from someone who we are led to believe is an unimpeachable source. But is he?<\/p>\n
The \u201cnon-partisan\u201d Morell was caught \u201cmis-speaking\u201d to Congress about his role in sanitizing the infamous CIA talking points prepared for US Ambassador Susan Rice to deliver on the Sunday talk shows after the Benghazi attacks. And when he was caught out, like a faithful soldier, he fell on his sword.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how it happened: After Susan Rice\u2019s outlandish claims on the Sunday talk shows that the Benghazi attacks began as a spontaneous protest over a \u201chateful\u201d YouTube video, Congress began asking where she had gotten that information. This is how lawmakers discovered that the intelligence community had drafted her talking points, with input from the White House and Hillary Clinton\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n
Early drafts of the talking points included a mention of al Qaeda. But that reference was removed in the final drafts. Sen. Lindsay Graham explained to me what happened next.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Nov. 27, 2012, Morell and Susan Rice came into my office,\u201d he told me. \u201cI asked Morell who changed [the talking points]. He said, the FBI deleted the reference to al Qaeda because of an ongoing criminal investigation. So I called the FBI. They said, no, they didn\u2019t change the talking points. They were furious.\u201d<\/p>\n
Apparently, that was an understatement: Someone at a senior level at FBI called the CIA to protest directly. Graham continued the story: \u201cAt 4 p.m. that day, CIA called me and said Morell \u2018mis-spoke\u2019 in his meeting with me, and that CIA deleted [the reference to al Qaeda], but they couldn\u2019t give a reason why.\u201d<\/p>\n
Graham thought the reason was obvious: \u201cIf the truth had been known that al Qaeda killed four Americans seven weeks before an election, it would have been a different political story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Remember what Obama and his surrogates were saying? \u201cOsama is dead, GM is alive.\u201d That was their campaign mantra.<\/p>\n
In fact, it was Morell himself who made those changes.<\/p>\n
Morell subsequently testified before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and eventually before the Benghazi Select Committee, twisting himself into a pretzel to explain why he removed any mention of the al Qaeda involvement in the attacks.<\/p>\n
He ultimately claimed he believed news reports calling the Benghazi attacks a protest gone wild were more credible than repeated e-mails and cables from his own station chief in Libya insisting there had never been a protest.<\/p>\n
It was an admission of gross incompetence \u2014 or partisanship. But that was the party line Clinton was putting out.<\/p>\n
Morell was rewarded after the 2012 election. When he retired from CIA, Morell took a position with Beacon Global Strategies, a company cofounded by Andrew Shapiro and Philippe Reines, members of Hillary Clinton\u2019s inner circle at the State Department.<\/p>\n
In his Times op-ed, Morell claims Donald Trump is an \u201cunwitting agent\u201d of Russia because he makes friendly remarks toward Putin. But Trump has never taken a dime from Putin. As we now know, Clinton and her husband have both profited handsomely from their relations to Russian state-owned banks and corporations \u2014 and actually helped Russia get its hands on a company with rights to a fifth of US uranium. Does that make her a \u201cwitting agent\u201d of Russia?<\/p>\n
This former spook\u2019s willingness to skewer the truth on behalf of a political patron should suffice to make any thinking person reject his judgment.<\/p>\n
As for the truth about Hillary, well, we\u2019ve seen her selling political favors to foreign countries and companies while secretary of state through the Clinton Foundation. And lying to the public incessantly \u2014 about Benghazi, her e-mails, you name it. Just imagine what she\u2019ll do if elected president.<\/p>\n
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