Hillary Clinton’s war on Libya damaged U.S. intelligence

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2011 campaign to drive Moammar Gadhafi from power did significant damage to U.S. intelligence, according to a top Libyan aide and U.S. intelligence officials.

The Libyan dictator provided regular reports to the CIA that helped capture or kill key al Qaeda figures and thwart terrorist attacks against American targets overseas, those sources said.

The Libyan regime, for instance, helped U.S. forces kill a key al Qaeda operative of a suicide attack on a U.S. air field in Afghanistan in 2007 when Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting.

It also helped foil a plan to attack the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria in 2005, according to U.S. intelligencesources who spoke to The Washington Times on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

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