Posted on 01/13/2014 3:32:32 PM PST by jazusamo
Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense officials -- headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama -- were informed that the event was a "terrorist attack," declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president's Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward.
Gen. Carter Ham, who at the time was head of AFRICOM, the Defense Department combatant command with jurisdiction over Libya, told the House in classified testimony last year that it was him who broke the news about the unfolding situation in Benghazi to then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The tense briefing -- in which it was already known that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens had been targeted and had gone missing -- occurred just before the two senior officials departed the Pentagon for their session with the commander in chief.
According to declassified testimony obtained by Fox News, Ham -- who was working out of his Pentagon office on the afternoon of Sept. 11 -- said he learned about the assault on the consulate compound within 15 minutes of its commencement, at 9:42 p.m. Libya time, through a call he received from the AFRICOM Command Center.
"My first call was to General Dempsey, General Dempsey's office, to say, 'Hey, I am headed down the hall. I need to see him right away,'" Ham told lawmakers on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on June 26 of last year. "I told him what I knew...
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I couldn’t agree with you more, FRiend.
The media here in this country and their families are American’s also and you’d think they’d try to promote the U.S. instead of tearing it down as many of them do. It proves liberalism and leftism is a mental disorder.
I wonder that too. But note the deliberate pace of the attacks. I am speculating. Why are the “CIA 3”1 muzzeled? Why not just cut them loose? It was an attack. But why then? Why were we so powerless. Why did we let them die and then say “ What difference does it make? “ . This is A COVER UP of what they were there fore. We have cowards in our party who do not want to stand up on the intelligence oversight committees!! Secretary Gates is “off the reservation” but the biggie who knows is LEON PANETTA!! He knows what happened!!!
the nation’s top civilian and uniformed defense officials — headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama —
“Previously scheduled”? I thought they had to pull Obama off the golf course to bring him to the meeting?
Send the subpoena and if he doesn’t comply, send one of the alphabet organization’s SWAT teams with the US Marshals to convince him otherwise.
Not Obama. Either Hillary or Valarie. Obama is a figurehead organizer/spokesperson for others in the regime. I don’t believe his is very intelligent based on his constant need for TOTUS and complete lack of info about his performance in college.
I read that this was a scheduled meeting that evening, it took place just before 0bama disappeared that night and then went to Las Vegas the next morning for a fund raiser.
Thanks. I keep remembering the golf course type clothes he was wearing in the picture that was circulated showing the “leadership” from the “One” in, I guess, the “situation room”. What a crock.
Probably delegated it to someone to tell him what to do. He couldn’t us his community organizer skills and gave up and went to Vegas.
obama knew of the attack before he went to bed, if he went to bed, thus the order (more than likely) came from obama.
This will either be ignored completely or, forgotten by Friday.
I understand, with 0bummer it’s pretty safe to say he’s on the golf course, he’s got a love affair with it and he doesn’t have to take care of the menial business of running the country when he’s there. :)
Sometimes Death comes knocking and Death is what this administration and their minions carry ... Forward!
Good point. Stand down order means he got get some sleep before the campaign stop. Use force means stay awake all night to deal with the situation and possibly mess up his campaign stop.
Dereliction of Duty File for CIC B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a known, documented, legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
Originalbuckeye,
What did you see/read, and when did you see/read it?
Treason. Giving aid (weapons) to our enemies (Al Quaida in Syria).
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