CNN takes over for Fox: "Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!"

So yesterday CNN's Jake Tapper posts this story, which essentially claims that he has sources within the CIA who sear that there were up to 35 people on the ground and that agents are being threatened into silence for fear they will give up sensitive information to Congress.

Here is a little of what he reports:

Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency's missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency's workings. 

The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress. 

It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career. 

In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, "You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well." 

Another says, "You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation."

Here is how the CIA responded to these allegations:  

CIA spokesman Dean Boyd asserted in a statement that the agency has been open with Congress. 

"The CIA has worked closely with its oversight committees to provide them with an extraordinary amount of information related to the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi," the statement said. "CIA employees are always free to speak to Congress if they want," the statement continued. 

"The CIA enabled all officers involved in Benghazi the opportunity to meet with Congress. We are not aware of any CIA employee who has experienced retaliation, including any non-routine security procedures, or who has been prevented from sharing a concern with Congress about the Benghazi incident."

Okay well clearly SOMEBODY is not telling the truth here.

Now I have ALWAYS believed that whatever Ambassador Stevens was doing in that Benghazi outpost that night was NOT something that the CIA wanted the American people to know about. But then again I realize that there are a LOT of operations that the CIA does not want the American people to know about. But that is a separate issue.

As for the validity of this reporting, well I am taking it with a grain of salt right now.

For one thing it seems that Tapper may only have one or two sources providing him with this information, and there is no telling WHO they are, or what agenda that they may have for doing so.

The other thing is that I am a little confused as to HOW Tapper got a hold of these sources when Fox News and Darrell Issa have been offering everything shy of Hawaiian vacation packages and hot and cold running blowjobs for anybody that would talk to them.

I am also a little interested that this story suddenly takes place right after the President made reference to "phony scandals," which has pissed off the Republicans to no end.

So, and I am going to get a little conspiratorial here, it would seem a smart move for the NEXT "revelation" about Benghazi to come, not from Fox news, but from a more respected news source.

Of course we have been referring to CNN as Fox-lite for months now, so I am not sure that it helps all that much.

Now right now the Right Wing is jumping around like house cat on a three day catnip bender, but other news agencies are taking a wait and see attitude. And this is driving the Right Wing even more batshit crazy.

However it should be noted that not all so called "Lamestream media" types are ignoring this CNN report.

I don't know, there could be some "there there" but right now I am waiting to see how other, more respected, news outlets handle the story.

But while I am waiting I will continue to keep this in mind.

There's something different, certainly refreshing, about Jake Tapper. I call it integrity and professionalism.... http://t.co/tgHuDQs3vO
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) May 21, 2013

Who was it who said "I don't believe in coincidences?"