Benghazi Attackers Used State Department Cell Phones During Attack

The Benghazi attackers on September 11, 2012 used State Department cell phones they seized from State Department personnel during the attacks and were overheard usign them to contact  senior terrorist leaders regarding the ongoing attack, according to a Fox report.

That would seem to contradict the notion that it was a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video as the administration claimed at the time and also indicate that they likely knew the truth, or certainly should have.

Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air Force, served as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft that was used to transport the corpses of the four casualties from the Benghazi attacks – then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – as well as the assault’s survivors from Tripoli to the safety of an American military base in Ramstein, Germany.

In an exclusive interview on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Stahl said members of a CIA-trained Global Response Staff who raced to the scene of the attacks were “confused” by the administration’s repeated implication of the video as a trigger for the attacks, because “they knew during the attack…who was doing the attacking.” Asked how, Stahl told anchor Bret Baier: “Right after they left the consulate in Benghazi and went to the [CIA] safehouse, they were getting reports that cell phones, consulate cell phones, were being used to make calls to the attackers’ higher ups.”

Stahl’s assertions were also confirmed by another source. The Accountability Review Board, which was convened by then-Secretary of State Hillary to look into the attack never interviewed Stahl.

In his interview on “Special Report,” Stahl made still other disclosures that add to the vast body of literature on Benghazi – sure to grow in the months ahead, as a select House committee prepares for a comprehensive probe of the affair, complete with subpoena power. Stahl said that when he deposited the traumatized passengers at Ramstein, the first individual to question the CIA security officers was not an FBI officer but the senior State Department diplomat on the ground.