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“I have been contacted by an intermediary in Libya who has indicated that President Muammar Gadhafi is willing to negotiate an end to the conflict under conditions which would seem to favor Administration policy,” Mr. Clinton in August explaining his communications in a last-ditch effort to stop the war. So there was a distortion of events that were occurring in Libya to justify an intervention which was essentially wrong and illegal.” “What was being said at the State Department - if you look at the charge at the time - it wasn’t so much about what happened as it was about what would happen. “I had facts that indicated America was headed once again into an intervention that was going to be disastrous,” Mr. Clinton was using emotion to sell a war against Libya that wasn’t warranted, and he wanted to get all the information he could to share with his congressional colleagues. Clinton and Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, acknowledged that he undertook his own conversations with the Gadhafi regime. “In our administration, the president made sure that we all sang from the same hymnal.”ĪLSO: Listen to the tapes: Intel undercuts Hillary Clinton’s primary argument for Libya military action

Baker III, who served under President George H.W. “If this story is true, it would be highly unusual for the Pentagon to conduct a separate set of diplomatic negotiations, given the way we operated when I was secretary of state,” James A. Clinton’s own party conveyed sentiments to the Libyan regime that undercut or conflicted with the secretary of state’s own message at the time. Instead, the tapes show that the Pentagon’s senior uniformed leadership and a congressman from Mrs. government speaks to foreign governments with one voice coordinated by the State Department. The surreptitiously taped conversations reveal an extraordinary departure from traditional policy, in which the U.S. I want you to see everything with your own eyes.”

“We ask the American government send a fact-finding mission to Libya. “And now you have NATO supporting them with ships, with airplanes, helicopters, arms, training, communication,” he said in one recorded conversation with U.S. Seif Gadhafi also warned that many of the U.S.-supported armed rebels were “not freedom fighters” but rather jihadists whom he described as “gangsters and terrorists.”