CIA: We Didn’t Ask for Help During Benghazi Attack -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast

CIA: We Didn’t Ask for Help During Benghazi Attack -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast

The agency’s acting director will tell Congress today that agents on the ground the night Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed never requested military assistance, Eli Lake reports.

When the CIA’s acting director, Michael Morell, testifies Thursday before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, he is expected to say that the agency never requested Europe-based special operations teams, specialized Marine platoons, or armed drones on the night of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official.

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