But any military assistance they might have received would not have come from their security firm employer. Any request for assistance would had to have gone to the CIA, or some military command.
The statement concerning what the acting CIA director would testify to was fairly vague: that the CIA did not ask for any military assistance, no specificity as to what CIA location, but some commentators interpreted it to be CIA headquarters.
Maybe it has been made more clear somewhere today.
Yes, that’s my point. The initial and subsequent reports did NOT say who gave the stand down order, so it could have been CIA, State Dept., Military, or the Security firm.
We also don’t know if the order came from someone on site or elsewhere.
It seems logical to me, that if you were providing security, under attack and needed backup, that the seals might have called their superiors @ Blue Mountain at the same time the diplomats contacted State, and CIA operatives went up the CIA chain of command.
Bottom line, someone told them to stand down, we don’t know who. Help was requested, but we don’t know from which of the several agencies. Nor do we know what happened on the receiving end.