I know it was a mission and Hicks was at the Embassy in Tripoli with the Seals wanting to go help a half hour away. Canada had closed their Tripoli Embassy a month earlier and we left ours open and why we would send an Ambassador to Benghazi defies logic.
This was manslaughter and no different from leaving the gate open on a lion’s den. You know what the possibilities of death are and not only do you ignore them, you don’t send help. Who made the Stand Down order?
Then you don’t ask Hicks or the people on the ground what happened and make up a lame excuse? They are so lucky they are Party members like the old Soviet Guard or they would be gone.
These were retired SEALS and they were on contract with the CIA. Doherty was one of the ones who went down on the first flight using a charted aircraft. Where are you coming up with this half hour flight time? Benghazi is over 400 miles from Tripoli.
The UK (vice Canada) closed its mission temporarily after its ambassador's motorcade was attacked in Benghazi with RPGs in June.
Hicks during his testimony said that Stevens was intending to go to Benghazi in October, but he went in September so that they could get a report to make Benghazi a permanent mission and obligate the money prior to end of September 30, the end of the fiscal year. What I find incredible is that they wanted to make Benghazi a permanent facility despite the deteriorating security conditions. Hillary was, according to Hicks, pushing this.
Then you don’t ask Hicks or the people on the ground what happened and make up a lame excuse?
The ARB interviewed Hicks for two hours--according to Hicks. And Pickering said this morning that the ARB interviewed all the survivors. Issa said in response that Congress has not even been given the names let alone being able to interview them. We need a select committee, even though Issa appears to be against it.