In the same article he also addressed the continuing cost overruns and the limitations of the close-in weapon system on the Littoral combat ship, which had switched to the more advanced SeaRAM system five years beforehand.[3]
On 14 November 2012, Lyons speculated that the death of Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi was the result of a bungled attempt to have Stevens kidnapped by Ansar al-Sharia to facilitate a prisoner exchange resulting in the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman.[4]
On 7 February 2015, Lyons controversially claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood had succeeded in infiltrating every US security agency under the Obama presidency during a National Press Club conference. He also alleged that John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was a Muslim convert. In addition, Lyons alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood was planning to start up a political party to influence American domestic politics.[5]
On 11 February 2015, Lyons fingered US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger as the single person responsible for twice preventing a joint France-America takedown of the Khomeini regime in Iran in August 1987. He went on to state "Islam is a political movement masquerading as a religion." [6]
On 1 March, 2018, Lyons accused the FBI and Department of Justice as being corrupt at the highest levels due to apparent mishandling of the Seth Rich murder and DNC server hacking investigations. [7]