The question that needs to be answered is: Who gave the “Stand down” order? No one other than Obozo had that authority. Commanders in the field denied giving the command.
Assets in place, target painted, told to stand down?
Wonder why Petraeus resigned?
FUBO!
“target painted”
The man who crawled to the roof? That image haunts me. A lone man, in the dark, painting a target and calling it in over and over, knowing drones were overhead and aircraft was only 1/2 hour away.
There are tapes of their maydays. There has to be video.
And yes, these things have happened before. I just don’t recall a sitting President refusing, and, then, denying/lying about the cause.
Exception: the Bay of Pigs.