Posted on 11/01/2012 4:23:39 PM PDT by maggief
And his actions (or lack thereof) have sent a very dark message to all in harm’s way.
How, indeed. Correctly answering that question is how we save ourselves from the mess we find ourselves in.
About the only justification they might have for inaction, would be to ensure the Tripoli embassy was adequately guarded in a broad based coordinated attack on all US embassies in the region,..in which case the Siganella resources would have been more intelligent or another AFRICOM assigned resource, instead of those from Tripoli.
IMHO, we are witnessing many stories released concurrently which support the Administration’s effort, despite the facts.
COVERUP.
They’ll spend 10x as many resources covering up what happened, than what they would have risked by simply performing their duty originally.
This will merely document they need 10X as many resources in the future for COVERUP ops than their legitimate duties.
The elephant in the room for this whole timeline is the absence of leadership and participation by the WH, SECSTATE, and the counter-terrorism task force.
Yes, but the article is all about the CIA efforts. The absence of leadership is there with or without this article.
It adds some things - more things the WH hasn't commented on. Yes the WH should have/likely did know. Yes, they did nothing as far as we know.
But the article doesn't add much to this, a few more details. We still know they didn't respond, we still don't know what they were doing, who made the decision, how it was communicated, etc. etc.
The elephant was in the room before this article and remains in the room after it. The CIA just gets more CYA.
IMHO, this CBS report is more damaging to the regime:
Seems to me the CIA expected our military to support them, only to be abandoned. Who is the only one who would/could order a stop to SOP?
As sure as the sun rises in the East. Have you noticed no names of the “officials.”? Nor the names of the agencies?
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