Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer: My sources tell me Obama was in the room watching Benghazi attack video 10-27-2012Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said tonight that his sources tell him that Obama was one of the people in the room watching the Benghazi attack go down and both he and Col. David Hunt agree it would have taken an order by the president to intervene. Further, Col. Hunt said that we were only 20 min away by jet and a couple of hours away by AC-130 gunships and special forces, and the decision not to intervene had to be political.
This is truly bizarre. Was he or wasn’t he there? The initial stories were very conflicting and things don’t seem to have improved much in the interim.
The attack went on for 8 hours, although there was a lull. Perhaps Obama was informed initially (when he called Panetta) and then went off to bed and left strict instructions not to be awakened because he had an early flight to Vegas?
There are two possibilities. Either he was there and didn’t do anything to help or couldn’t make a decision, or he wasn’t there and had been informed but didn’t care enough to follow up on it and then went to bed after his one conversation with Panetta, who seems to have been the only one he spoke to that day.
Neither of these scenarios is a good one. If it were anybody but Obama, he’d already be out of office and probably even looking at criminal charges.
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