South Carolina's Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, according to Liberty Counsel's Matthew Staver, again without evidence:
"has publically announced a significant part of what the Obama administration is trying to cover up in Benghazi-gate: The magnitude of gunrunning and fighter recruitment -- even involving jihadist organizations -- to oppose Syrian government forces through the U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya."
The gun-running in Libya scenario was floated early in the
fall of 2012, by Rand Paul, among others, but in more speculative form. At The Patriot's Trumpet, a
20-year CIA employee, Clare Lopez, posed a number of provocative questions in
October. Without offering
supporting evidence, in a conversation with Glen Beck she asked whether the attack
in Benghazi was part of:
""a much-larger gunrunning
operation to al Qaida-linked and other Jihadist groups in Libya and, more
ominously, Syria?
"Is the Obama
Administration running guns into other Jihadist hot spots?
"" Was Ambassador Stevens our operational
officer in a gunrunning operation to al Qaida linked groups that had "gone
wrong?
"Did the Obama
Administration set Stevens up and leave him (with former Navy Seals, Glen
Doherty and Tyrone Woods and computer expert, Sean Smith) to die?"
If Polite Questions
Fail, Try Direct Accusation
Perhaps the clearest, and most vitriolic, expression of the Benghazi gun-running plot comes from rising rightwing celebrity blogger Katie Kieffer of Minnesota. In her April 29 post, Kieffer began:
"Liberals don't want honest Americans like you to have guns. Liberals just want to arm foreign rebels in crapshoot attempts to "end global violence." But liberals feign ignorance when the rebels they arm end up being criminals who kill innocent Americans like the late U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens."
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