New Pentagon timeline reveals military arrived in Libya 14 hours after attack ended

AP/FOXNEWS.COM ^ | November 09, 2012 | AP

[throwback]

Anybody remember reports of any military ARRIVING in Libya? I don't recall previous media reports ever reporting this. They also claimed that it was too dangerous for the FBI to go in for weeks. Plus Panetta said nobody was sent because it was to risky initially, he didn't say we were moving assets, but they were too far away.

[fso301]

Anybody remember reports of any military ARRIVING in Libya? I don't recall previous media reports ever reporting this. They also claimed that it was too dangerous for the FBI to go in for weeks. Plus Panetta said nobody was sent because it was to risky initially, he didn't say we were moving assets, but they were too far away.

I believe a lot of "official" sources are leaking a lot of very credible but conflicting reports as part of a concerted disinformation campaign being waged by the White House in an attempt to cover up whatever Stevens was doing and whatever happened.

[GraceG]

14 hours, that is STILL OVER 6 hours too damn late if this 14 hours is even True.....

[MestaMachine]

THIS is Operation CHAOS. Daze and confuse. Lie and obfuscate.

WE need to force it to crash and burn!!!

[CatOwner]

Amazing. Nearly two months after the ambassador was assassinated, and the administration still doesn't know what happened, at least that's what they're telling us. So, they are either woefully unprepared for the enemy, or they're lying to the American people.

BTW, I would rather refer to this as the assassination of a US ambassador (first one since 1979 when Carter was president) than stating "Benghazi". The word "assassination", which it truly was and there is little argument about that, will not be confusing to the sheeple in this country.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK,...next question...is....when were they dispatched...meaning when did someone decide to send them....

Actually I wasn't aware that any were sent.

Geez Louise....what a performance.

[jessduntno]

“14 hours, that is STILL OVER 6 hours too damn late if this 14 hours is even True.....”

Read it again and it gets even worse. 14 hours after the attack ended.

The attack took 7 hours by all reports.

That’s 21 hours later...20 hours after Zero the Hero knew about it and gave his famous “CHARGE” command...what a bunch of BS we are getting from these murdering thugs in the WH.

[neveralib]

Wait just a cotton-pickin minute

I could have sworn we had a carrier task force in the Med?

Don't know the exact location of where it was, but flying at supersonic speeds, I can't imagine that a squadron of fighters could not have reached Bengazi in an hour or less.

Plus, what about all the (reported) Military assets stationed in Italy, some 400 miles from Bengazi?

Something does not compute here and methinks that the sycophant, political animal, Sec Def is continuing with his (no doubt "ordered") obfuscation and dissembling...if not outright, LYING!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wonder what the heck they did when they got there.....

Might have been some valuable papers at the mission....weapons at the annex.

[TigersEye]

In particular, there was at least a 19-hour gap between the time when Panetta first ordered military units to prepare to deploy — between midnight and 2 a.m. local time in Tripoli — and the time a Marine anti-terrorism team landed in Tripoli, which as just before 9 p.m.

A senior defense official on Friday said forces were at the ready around the globe, but it took time to assess the murky situation,

C'mon! So murky that they didn't know the difference between Tripoli and Benghazi? That Tripoli is as far from Benghazi as Sigonella?

We're supposed to believe that for almost two months, with an election going on, 0coward didn't answer accusations that he didn't do anything with this simple information?

Hey, fella, it's not raining you're peeing on me!!!

[norton]

We are talking about the Secretary of Defense for Gods's sake!

He should have had orders out to roll Herk's and Globemasters full of Special Ops, cooks, bakers, and straight legs before he got to the meeting with the great Won.
To paraphrase the Won; "we have things like radios now". There'd have been plenty of time to recall them after the CNC scotched the only honorable plan.

[Morpheus2009]

Again, B.S. excuses that the informed citizen won’t buy, but the well regular and blindly partisan will buy.

[TigersEye]

Nope, no carrier group in the Med at that time. Or now AFAIK. One was brought back to the U.S. on the east coast and two others were in the Pacific for war games.

[blueunicorn6]

Come on everyone.....”Arrived in LIBYA”......not Benghazi. Confuse and obfuscate. Do we have any military today in Benghazi?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Did they ever go to Benghazi?

[TomGuy]

Anybody remember reports of any military ARRIVING in Libya? I don't recall previous media reports ever reporting this.

No, but I do recall a recent change in the narrative. Petraeus (IIRC) said that Doherty came with a group from Tripoli to join with Woods after the attacks began.

That was the only occasion where any outside help was mentioned. Strangely, all other reports from Sept 11 to that CIA release indicated that Woods and Doherty were working together in the Benghazi area.

[The narrative keeps changing so much that it is difficult to keep up with each new version. Until principals are put under oath, the narrative will continue to change.]

[throwback]

Remember too that we see media video in a endless loop every night on Fox of the consulate still burning, but we have no reports or video of American boots on the ground arriving in Libya 14 hours later. If that had actually happened, it would have been a major problem for the messiah’s talking point about ending wars. It didn’t happen.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And if they were dispatched to Tripoli....what the hell was the nonsense from Panetta about Not knowing the Danger they might encounter...???

Do wonder Patreus took a way out....

[blueunicorn6]

The author of LEADING FROM BEHIND was on tv. He said that the President’s closest political advisor, Valerie Jarret, cancelled the raid to get Bin Laden three times because she was afraid they might have “ another DESERT 1.” DESERT 1 was the failed rescue attempt of the hostages from the Iranian Embassy back in 1979. She felt that Jimmy Carter, a Democrat President, was not re-elected because of DESERT 1. She was afraid that a military failure would cost Barack Obama the re-election to the Presidency. Now, do you see why no military assets were sent to Benghazi? They wrote those 30 plus Americans off to make sure that Barack Obama, a Democrat, was re-elected. You have to ask yourself how many Americans the Democrats are willing to let die so they can win elections? 500? 100,000? Ten million? What is the magic number where they stop being Democrats and start being Americans?

[dalebert]

the new one they just cooked up?