Benghazi

Part 1

“They’re gonna leak something to you. Did you hear what I said, they’re gonna leak something to you”, the voice on the other side of the line. said.

“What does that mean?”

“They’re gonna give something to you that’s classified and try to get you in trouble. That’s how they do things,” he said.

“But as a journalist, I am protected.”

“Kinda. But they’ll try to ruin your credibility and/or try to prosecute you under the Espionage Act.

“As for me, I’m not worried about them hurting me physically, I just know they like to get people in trouble that aren’t doing what they want them to do, and that means dumping something on their computer or leaking documents you’re not supposed to see and I don’t want them to do that to you,” the voice on the line said.

And with that, my trusted source had me prepared for a shadow figure with a tip that I couldn’t trust. This interaction explains the entire time I spent covering the Benghazi story. The story started with a phone call, and now it continued with a warning by phone. At first, I doubted. I mean, is this a Michael Crichton book? What the heck? Then I reminded myself, and this contact is one of my most trusted.

My connection to the Benghazi story began after I completed a report in San Pedro, California, with the Coast Guard. I was on my way home in typical bumper-to-bumper afternoon LA traffic, and I heard about the Benghazi attack on the radio and the Administration’s story that it was caused by a video.