Arms for Libya 2.0

 Arms for Libya 2.0(arms deal,  CIA/Arms trafficking‎,  Mid level deep event)

Planners	US Deep state
Perpetrators	Marc Turi, Turi Defense Group
Description	A replay of the original Arms For Libya, in that a US deep state arms dealer was charged with selling weapons to Libya. However, in contrast to the original case, Marc Turi had a secret ace in the hole which caused the USDOJ to drop all charges and hush the affair up.

Not to be confused with Arms For Libya, a 1970s arms deal that saw Edwin Wilson, another CIA-backed arms dealer jailed for shipping US weapons to Libya.

Arms for Libya 2.0 was an arms deal intended to send US produced weapons to Libya. It was worked on by Marc Turi and his Turi Defense Group. As with the 1970s deal of Edwin Wilson, it attracted the attention of US law enforcement and in 2011 Turi found himself on trial. After the USDOJ failed to use "national security" to restrict the permissible evidence all charges were dropped.

Origins

In March 2011, just as the attacks on Libya were intensifying, Mr. Turi realized that Libya could be a lucrative new market, and applied to the US State Department for a license to provide weapons to the rebels there, according to e-mails and other documents he has provided. In May 2011, his application to ship more than $200 million worth of weapons to Qatar was approved.

DoHS raid on Turi's Home

Two months later, Turi's his home near Phoenix was raided by agents from the Department of Homeland Security. Administration officials said^[When?] that he remained under investigation in connection with his arms dealings. The US Justice Department declined to comment.

USA v. Turi et al

The USA brought a case against Marc Turi and Turi Defense Group. The DOJ tried to claim that "national security" meant that matters relating to the U.S. State Department and Hillary Clinton should be kept under wraps during the pre-trial motions. However, a federal judge^[Who?] ruled that the defense could use the documented evidence that Turi possessed in his defense.

The first interview Turi gave after the charges were dropped in 2016.

Turi's unknown "ace in the hole"

Roscoe Davis tweeted: "Don't know what ace in the hole Marc Turi that kept him alive, but it must be good, because in Obama's last few days in office, they dropped all charges on Turi and he walked on all the charges."

Dismissed with prejudice

Following the decision that Turi would be allowed to defend himself with the documents in his possession, the case was withdrawn, amid fears that it would "cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton's private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi."

Turi's Ace

Theconservativetreehouse reported that "under the code name “Zero Footprint” Marc Turi originally drew up the plan to coordinate the flow of weapons from the U.S. through the intermediary of Qatar into Libya. Those U.S. weapons ended up in Libya and Syria being used by the enemies of the U.S., specifically al-Qaeda. In February of 2012 Asst. Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro admitted the State Department had been attempting to relocate and buy-back those weapons since August of 2011. However, on September 11th 2012, while those efforts were still ongoing, the attacks in Benghazi against the U.S. State Department Ambassador Chris Stevens took place, and four Americans were killed. In 2014 the DOJ filed charges against Marc Turi essentially for non registered weapons shipments. Turi’s defense was that the weapons were unregistered because the State Department and the CIA needed covert cover. Elements within the CIA confirmed the basic outline for Turi’s assertion. In 2015 Turi provided Fox News with documents and email exchanges he had with high-level members of Congress as well as military, and State Department employees to back up his claim that the Obama administration authorized in 2011, at the height of the Arab Spring, a covert weapons program that spun out of control."

Marc Turi’s legal defense team said if the DOJ was going to prosecute him for the arms shipments, his defense would necessarily reveal how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was actually the driver of the entire program.

The four felony counts — which included two of arms dealing in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and two of lying on his State Department weapons application — were dismissed last week against Turi “with prejudice,” meaning the government cannot come after him again on this matter. Under the deal, Turi admits no guilt in the transactions he participated in, but he agreed to refrain from U.S.-regulated arms dealing for four years. A $200,000 civil penalty will be waived if Turi abides by the agreement.

In an October TV interview following the deal, Turi stated “It really is ungodly, and unjust and unconscionable, that the entire force of the United States government came after me for a simple application. I was working for the U.S. government.” He added, “I never shipped anything. I never even received the contract. So all I received was an approval for $534 million to support our interests overseas. And it would have been the United States government that facilitated that operation from Qatar and UAE by way of allowing those countries to land their planes and land their ships in Libya.”

Rating

26 May 2019 Robin  An brief but useful overview
A brief overview of this deep event which dropped off corporate media radar.

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