CIA denies it detained militants in Benghazi

U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. / CBS News
WASHINGTON The CIA is denying an assertion made by David Petraeus' biographer and girlfriend that the agency held militants in Libya before the Sept. 11 attack.
During a talk last month at the University of Denver, author Paula Broadwell said the CIA had detained people at a secret facility in Benghazi, and the attack on the U.S. Consulate there was an effort to free those prisoners.
President Barack Obama issued an executive order in January 2009 stripping the CIA of its authority to take prisoners.
The move means the CIA can no longer operate secret jails across the globe as it had done under the administration of President George W. Bush.
"The CIA has not had detention authority since January 2009... Any suggestion that the Agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless," CIA spokesman Preston Golson told CBS News.
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Section 4(a) CIA Detention. The CIA shall close as expeditiously as possible any detention facilities that it currently operates and shall not operate any such detention facility in the future.
Section 2(g) Definitions. The terms "detention facilities" and "detention facility" in section 4(a) of this order do not refer to facilities used only to hold people on a short-term, transitory basis.
Oh my, the CIA does have detention authority, as long as it is only used "on a short-term, transitory basis."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2012/11/12/what-did-broadwell-know.html
I recall hearing that the Libyans captured were turned over to the Libyan government, such as it is.
The key thing with this video clip is that it may show Broadwell with unique access to intelligence information, but it doesn't look all that sensational. She clearly isn't discussing our sale of Soviet-style surface to air missiles to the Syrian rebels, anyway.
This reeks on about 17 different levels.
It's impossible for us "publics" to know for sure; th'Media here have us by the shorts; so unless we're sitting along the wall with our note pads behind the closed doors of these briefings, we're in fact pretty helpless in ferreting out real facts.
The CBS of Edward Morrow is gone with the wind.
Caveat emptor in this whole cove-rup-affaire, because now everyone is frantic to cover their as*s. Put yourselves in the "insiders'" places.
This is only the beginning, Dear Readers.