Posted on 05/05/2014 6:54:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As I wrote earlier this year (in “To protect his image, Obama has tied Pentagon's hands in hunting for Benghazi attackers”), Obama’s refusal to designate the Benghazi attack as having been planned and perpetrated by Al Qaeda has prevented the Pentagon from hunting down the murderers -- all to protect his image.
The U.S. military cannot hunt down and kill people responsible for the deadly 2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as long as the terrorists are not officially deemed members or affiliates of al Qaeda, newly declassified transcripts from congressional hearings show.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey in testimony on Oct. 10 said the Pentagon's hands are tied because the groups involved are not covered by the Authorization for Use of Military Force. The AUMF law allows U.S. attacks anywhere in the world only on al Qaeda and "associated forces."
"The individuals related in the Benghazi attack, those that we believe were either participants or leadership of it, are not 'authorized use of military force,' " Gen. Dempsey told the House Armed Services Committee in his classified testimony during a closed hearing.
The transcript was released on Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I suspect it is to protect against having al quaeda members testifying in court about the gun-running by Obama, and trying to cut a deal to get back the stinger missiles the administration gave to them.
Al Qaeda is Obama’s friends.
What the Democrats are doing by trying to trivialize Benghazi is to gloss over the fact that four Americans including the US ambassador were killed and their killers are going free. Perhaps a good add for the campaign would show the four coffins returning to the US and Hillary saying what difference does it make.
The principal killer is alive alright, living and working to kill more Americans from the White House.
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