The procedures our SpecOps, Navy, Air Force and Army have set up to rescue endangered Embassy personnel has been around for decades.
Our military was ready and waiting for their authorization from our Faux POTUS, which never came.
One of our own and a Seal Officer, Travis Mcgee, explains the protocols that have been established for decades.
Obozo refused to pull the pin and authorize the rescue. He went to bed to prepare for a hard trip to Vegas.
Then he and his evil minions lied and good Americans died.
Below is Travis’s explanation of how this stuff works unless the POTUS doesn’t authorize the final actions.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2951160/posts?page=5#5
Now I was only a LT for 5 years active duty in NavSpecWar, but it was imprinted deeply upon my brain that ONLY the PUTUS can give cross-border permission. Probably a million living ex-military officers know this like they know 2+2=4. This Benghazi fiasco is Obama’s baby 100% and there is no way for him to wiggle out.
The system is designed to ENSURE that when a crisis is happening, (and a missing ambassador with a consulate under attack is “Crisis Level Infinity”), and military assets are already charging in to the rescue, the president must be in the loop to grant the the cross-border authorization. Nobdy else can do this. This one formality must be followed, “just put your intitials here, Mr. President, for history,” so to speak. Boiler plate, but it must be done.
(Can you imagine Reagan or either Bush saying “No. Cross border permission not granted. Stop the rescue. Stand down.”)
The POTUS has to tell the Sec. State and JCS, “Yes, do it, execute the rescue, cross the borders.” Then it WILL happen, without delay, since the military is already on the way, flying in from all directions toward Benghazi.
But if POTUS says at 5pm DC time, “No military action, no cross border,” and then he becomes “unavailable,” then his last standing order stands until he changes it. So if he went to bed, for example, nobody could change his standing orders.
I imagine that a lot of extreme military, CIA and State Dept. craziness was going down while Obama was sleeping. Aircraft must be told proceed, or return to base, or they fall from the sky. I imagine many HEATED arguments around the globe on phone, text and email, subject, “Well wake the damn president up!” Followed by, “I can’t! You MUST stand down the mission!”
Just imagine dozens of inbound planes, jets and helos. Ships moving at full speed into position to be “lilypads” for long-range over-water helo refueling. Airborne refueling tankers all head to the area. It’s a complicated ballet. The Pentagon is wide awake, the military is on full alert. The rescue is in process, from the first minutes after the alarm.
Everybody in all the planes and involved HQs knows how many minutes/miles to the Libyan border, Benghazi, and their “bingo fuel” moment, when they must turn around or run dry and crash. Ships can “loiter,” but planes fall from the sky.
So you can imagine why General Ham of Africom was relieved for refusing to stand down. He probably KNEW Obama was “unavailable,” and was screaming over the phone, “Well, wake him up, dammit!!”
Planes and jets and helicopters and ships and commando teams are zooming all around the central Med, keying in on Benghazi——
And in that environment, OBAMA WAS ASLEEP AND UNREACHABLE!!!!! Resting up for Las Vegas! With a MISSING AMBASSADOR, in Al-Queadatown!
Anybody not furious is a vegetable.
The TRUTH will come out!
Obama pounded the table and declared:
“We will NOT inject American forces into another mid-East country and create the impression we’re involved in a civil war!”
From there, the team set about blaming a video trailer.
Mr. Panetta should be edified or reminded that many times you have to put boots on the ground to develop the intelligence picture.
It’s called “reconnaissance” and all infantry and spec ops types are trained extensively in it.
Again, this is inexcusable from the POTUS.
Well, we know the movie will be a tearjerker.
I can give you a fairly accurate guess about the outcome when the security of the compound are armed only with flashlights and billy clubs while the aggressors were armed well and willing to use it.
Maybe Valerie Jarrett told him not to send help.
My explanation is better: ZerO didn’t want Arab blood on his hands; preferred to let our guys die. He’s on Brotherhood’s side. Wake up America!
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We should note here that Obama, via intermediaries, delayed the decision to go get Bin Laden twice. Likely delayed until what was at risk was a scandal if he didn’t act and the risk opportunity might be squandered. But, the longer the delay the closer to election.
the key actors — Secretary of Defense Panetta, Secretary of State Clinton, and General Petraeus.
The author misses the most important key actor... Valerie Jarrett. I think her role in this has been totally hidden from public view.
The best theory that I saw was developed from material that I saw on the Canada Free Press website. Keep in mind as you read this that I have seen no direct supporting evidence for this theory, but I do believe that it makes sense.
After Eric Holder was held in contempt of congress for Fast and Furious on June 28, 2012 it became clear to the White House that the Mexican gun-running scandal was not going away. The White House had been supplying massive amounts of weaponry to al-Qaeda from Qaddafi’s stores of weapons, and sent Ambassador Stevens to Benghazi to negotiate for the return of some of it and supervise the shipment of more of it to al-Qaeda in Syria, in collaboration with the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned government in Turkey.
Because Amb. Stevens knew so much about the program, Obama and his most inner circle decided that he had to be eliminated. Therefore, they first had an informer (originally called Sam Bacile) post the Muhammad video in early July), and then used this video as a diversion to conceal their plan to assassinate the ambassador.
On September 11, the President and the CIA sent Ambassador Stevens back to the mission (not a “consulate”) in Benghzai, with no protection, assuming (or knowing) that he would be attacked and murdered, and his secrets would die with him.
Then, Obama, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Jay Carney blamed the video, which first was attributed to 100 Jews led by an Israeli-American and ultimately was attributed to a Coptic Egyptian-American.
Ultimately, too many people were involved in the events of September 11, 2012 for the betrayal of Ambassador Stevens to stay hidden, as Obama intended. First, the two Navy Seals defied orders and went to protect the Ambassador. In addition, the senior Navy person sought permission to intervene. In addition, the attack was being broadcast in many locations (I saw that it could have been as many as 15), and many people were outraged that nothing more was done.
In short, the President of the United States collaborated in the scripted assassination of the US Ambassador to Libya as a way to eliminate the one witness who knew the most about Obama’s secret program to send armaments to al-Qaeda from Libya. He hoped to divert attention to the set-up of the Muhammad film, and that failed because too many people who really care were outraged.
Bill Kristol is a ruse and apologist for obama and he’s working his a$$ off to paint the messiah’s actions in as rosy a picture as he can manage. No, obama’s first sin was being asleep at the switchboard when Americans were under attack, BUT HIS BIGGEST, WORST, MOST EGREGIOUS SIN is the coverup and lies that came after. Imagine the incitement to riots and mayhem that those obama lies caused our people and our consulates and American businesses around the world!! The audacity of this decrepit miserable twit to reek havoc has no bounds or red lines. He is an utter plague on homeland. Kristol has no excuses for that.
Justice with Judge Jeanine 10/27/12 - CIA talks about latest news about Benghazi coverup
Judge Jeanine speaking with Charles Woods, father of Benghazi slain SEAL Ty Woods
The president and his comrades never envisioned the truth would get out. Thank heavens for OFX news reporters and the internet sites that have scoured every source for news. With them working together, we’ll find out the truth soon enough. Panetta’s claim that you don’t send troops into harms’ way is ludicrous! IS war not harms’ way? Besides, we are supposed to believe that our forces could not have dealt with armed insurgents on the ground? Is that supposedly the current state of our armed forces? I doubt it. They plan and train for this all the time. It IS their mission. It begs a couple questions: #1. Was Stevens set up, or purposely left to die, and why, if so? #2. Were American ammunitions/weaponry in use and Obama knew it? Wanted to let the scavengers get all the stuff picked up before they were found and cited in the investigation?
We have pretty reliable sources that Ambassador Stevens had MUCH more than a diplomatic reason to be there. He’s been related to tracking WMDs and selling weapons to the anti-government types during the so-called Arab Spring. I hope the TRUTH gets out and there is no wiggling out of blame when it hits. Please, LORD! Let this happen ASAP!
These facts, PLUS more...such as the attempt at a cover up by blaming it on a YouTube video.
Here’s what I think his motivation is (besides CYA).
While the bad guys in the WH are scrambling to deny their cover up and misdirection, I believe there is another long-standing related issue with this.
IMO Obama has as one of his main goals: improving the image of Islam around the world and helping its expansion.
Of course the Taliban, Al Qaeda and other fanatics keep getting in the way by killing ambassadors and shooting 14 year old girls.
Look at the apology tour, the support of the muslim brotherhood, moslems in the top of the state department advisors and the WH. Add his comments about the film for 14 days, even after he knew is was a terrorist attack..
The calling of the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, workplace violence, is just another outlandish example.
Stevie Wonder can see the pattern. Any decent reporter could make this into a headline story if they had the balls.
Good article. The other thing to add is that sending in forces would conflict with Obama’s campaign message of “ending wars” and withdrawing troops from around the world. To “win” on this issue, he needed to avoid deploying troops to Libya on the ground AND he needed to make it sound like terrorists were weak enough that deploying troops would no longer be necessary around the world. Hence, that leads to the White House trying to spin later that this was a “spontaneous” riot which could not have been predicted and has no connection to organized terrorism.
Thanks to the mainstream media’s complicity with Obama’s message in that regard, they were certainly getting away with that strategy for at least a good, solid month.
They chose not to send help because they were caught with their pants down. Why is the US in Libya recovering weapons that belong to Libya? What right does the US have to send the US military into a country that we are not at war with? What right does the US have to have spies blowing up Libyans? It would have taken cue balls that BamBam doesn’t have to send in the help that would have saved Doherty and Woods. As it was, BamBam sent in a quick reaction force that had to have permission from the Libyan government every step of the way to the safe house and back to the airport. As it is, Doherty and Woods can be painted as rogue warriors who violated official orders from BamBam. It is a pretty clear message that Obama is a coward.