The Deeper Blame for Benghazi

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/the-deeper-blame-for-benghazi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:59 AM
Subject: re: The Deeper Blame for Benghazi
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

  Ethan Chorin makes a good case that we should have a consulate in Benghazi. The fact remains that we do not and did not two years ago. What he insists on calling our "diplomatic mission" there was a CIA spy nest.

   What remains to be determined is whether ambassador Stevens had travelled there purely to furnish our CIA with a fig-leaf of respectability or if in fact our diplomats are so entwined with our CIA's covert operations that they are all legitimate military targets themselves.

Barry Haskell Levine