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From CBS News:
- Documents Show Top Defense Officials Briefed Obama Minutes After Assault On Benghazi Began It Was A “terrorist Attack,” Not A Protest About A Video
Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation’s top civilian and uniformed defense officials — headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama — were informed that...
- More Benghazi Events Previously Unknown
UPDATE - VIDEO ADDED AT BOTTOM OF POST It’s incredible.The Pentagon DID dispatch Special Forces.ON THEIR OWNThe Special Forces DID arrive in time to try to rescue our people.The Special Forces DID take part in the fight to do so.Masked from public view,...
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Benghazi Whistleblower: Nearby Rapid-Reaction Troops Were Told to Stand Down From Ace of Spades: Obama and Hillary claimed there was no stand-down order and it was all a right-wing confabulation. Then the entire leftwing political messaging machine went...
- Panetta On Why We Allowed Our People To Die : “you Don’t Deploy Forces Into Harm’s Way Without Knowing What’s Going On”
Excuse me, but our people were in harm’s way. They were getting killed.What member of the armed forces demanded perfect intelligence before deploying to save other Americans?Which decision maker was more worried about civilian casualties...
- And Now We Understand Romney’s No Libya Policy In The Debate Monday
If the other side is committing suicide, don’t get involved.Romney HAD TO HAVE KNOWN this storm was coming. This leak has to have been from the republican investigation staff of Issa’s committee. Reuter’s says point blank the emails came...
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Report: U.S. Had Predator Drone Over Benghazi As Attack Happened, “They Stood And They Watched And Our People Died”
From CBS News:
The closer we get to the election, the harder Republicans in Congress are pushing for answers to a big question: What really happened in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya last month that killed the U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans?
Some lawmakers are asking why U.S. military help from outside Libya didn’t arrive as terrorists battered more than 30 Americans over the course of more than seven hours. The assault was launched by an armed mob of dozens that torched buildings and used rocket propelled grenades, mortars and AK-47 rifles.
CBS News has been told that, hours after the attack began, an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft apparently observed the final hours of the protracted battle.
The State Department, White House and Pentagon declined to say what military options were available.
A White House official told CBS News that, at the start of the attack, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta “looked at available options, and the ones we exercised had our military forces arrive in less than 24 hours, well ahead of timelines laid out in established policies.”
Retired CIA officer Gary Berntsen believes help could have come much sooner. He commanded CIA counter-terrorism missions targeting Osama bin Laden and led the team that responded after bombings of the U.S. Embassy in East Africa.
“You find a way to make this happen,” Berntsen says. “There isn’t a plan for every single engagement. Sometimes you have to be able to make adjustments. They made zero adjustments in this. They stood and they watched and our people died.”
The Pentagon says it did move a team of special operators from central Europe to the large Naval Air Station in Sigonella, Italy, but gave no other details. Sigonella is just an hour’s flight from Libya. Other nearby bases include Aviano and Souda Bay. Military sources tell CBS News that resources at the three bases include fighter jets and Specter AC-130 gunships, which the sources say can be extremely effective in flying in and buzzing a crowd to disperse it.
- Documents Show Top Defense Officials Briefed Obama Minutes After Assault On Benghazi Began It Was A “terrorist Attack,” Not A Protest About A Video
Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation’s top civilian and uniformed defense officials — headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama — were informed that...
- More Benghazi Events Previously Unknown
UPDATE - VIDEO ADDED AT BOTTOM OF POST It’s incredible.The Pentagon DID dispatch Special Forces.ON THEIR OWNThe Special Forces DID arrive in time to try to rescue our people.The Special Forces DID take part in the fight to do so.Masked from public view,...
-
Benghazi Whistleblower: Nearby Rapid-Reaction Troops Were Told to Stand Down From Ace of Spades: Obama and Hillary claimed there was no stand-down order and it was all a right-wing confabulation. Then the entire leftwing political messaging machine went...
- Panetta On Why We Allowed Our People To Die : “you Don’t Deploy Forces Into Harm’s Way Without Knowing What’s Going On”
Excuse me, but our people were in harm’s way. They were getting killed.What member of the armed forces demanded perfect intelligence before deploying to save other Americans?Which decision maker was more worried about civilian casualties...
- And Now We Understand Romney’s No Libya Policy In The Debate Monday
If the other side is committing suicide, don’t get involved.Romney HAD TO HAVE KNOWN this storm was coming. This leak has to have been from the republican investigation staff of Issa’s committee. Reuter’s says point blank the emails came...