Posted on 01/03/2016 6:12:14 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
An email recently obtained by Judicial Watch shows that the Pentagon was demanding Hillary allow them to send help to Benghazi during the 2012 attack. This would completely contradict the claim from Hillary and Leon Panetta that no forces were available and within reach to provide help to the compound that was under siege.
From Fox News:
As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.
The revelation appears to contradict testimony Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave lawmakers in 2013, when he said there was no time to get forces to the scene in Libya, where four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
“I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton],†reads the email, from Panetta’s chief of staff Jeremy Bash. “After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.â€
The email was sent out at 7:19 p.m. ET on Sept. 11, 2012, in the early stages of the eight-hour siege that also claimed the lives of Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALs, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, private CIA contractors who raced to the aid of embattled State Department workers.
Although the email came after the first wave of the attack at the consulate, it occurred before a mortar strike on the CIA annex killed Woods and Doherty.
“This leaves no doubt military assets were offered and ready to go, and awaiting State Department signoff, which did not come,†Judicial Watch, a nonprofit government watchdog said in a statement.
Parts of the email from Bash were redacted before release, including details on what military forces were available.
But, if you want to know what forces were likely to be available, all you have to do is listen to, or read, the account from an ex Special Forces member who explained it to Bryan Suits on the “Dark Secret Place,†a popular radio show in Los Angeles.
In the interview from November of 2012, he explained why Panetta’s claim was a LIE, and described the CIF which stands for Commanders In extremis Force, that could have been sent to Benghazi:
[The CIF is a] heretofore little known American option…You’ve probably never heard that before. It’s not secret per se, but it’s not publicized very much… the CIF, as it’s called is something that is available to every theater commander.
The CIF are US army special forces soldiers who are specifically dedicated to being prepared at all times for months on end to leave with no notice, with little or no information to move by air or whatever vehicle, to a situation, that they have been determined to be the best immediate solution to. They oftentimes get in the air with absolutely no idea where they’re going or what the mission is. Oftentimes they are briefed in the air.â€
“The entire purpose of this [CIF]… in the extreme, there is no worse case than this. Something is happening right now, and we don’t have 24 hours to get Delta force in there. Something is happening right now, and that’s why these forces, the CIF are pre-positioned… to at the drop of a hat, to go anywhere and do anything.
It’s time to explain what is angering so many people in the special operations community, because they’re aware of the CIF.
He then explained why Panetta was lying about there not being enough time to send them:
The bottom line is this – did the president have an option? He did. What Leon Panetta said about “real-time informationâ€, when Leon Panetta was saying that on Thursday, we know that’s a LIE. Because we’ve known for weeks that there was a predator drone orbiting the Benghazi consulate. Have US forces been sent places with less information? YES. I can personally vouch for being sent places where my initial mission was to find out what was going on.
There’s no such principle that you don’t deploy people without information.
So there it is. Panetta and Hillary LIED to the American public over and over, and the media never pressed them enough to demand answers.
And this information has been available since a MONTH after the attack…
Congress did their job. It was Congress’s job to rehabilitate Hillary. Thanks to Trey Gowdy, it accomplished this task brilliantly.
That terminology is for aircraft engines as they are started and "spin up" to power. This leads me to believe he was referring to attack aircraft or transports. Either way we had something we could send to save those guys.
Hillary lied and people died. Obama went to bed.
Sadly, I agree with you.
Which is why he got the ‘hell outta dodge”.
So one or more of the following happened:
> State Department refused to do the legwork for making the diplomatic requests
> The ‘Principals’ (i.e., the White House) shut it down.
(1) Did this email (now a month old from discovery) ever get a response? If so, from whom?
(2) Why haven’t Congressional investigations learned who refused to intervene? There IS a trail here!
Dude! The Pubics had 2 months to run with it. Didn’t happen.
Can we sent this to Trump and can we send Hillary to jail now?
I wonder how that matches up with her sworn testimony.
Panetta and Hildebeest adhered strictly to CYA in their testimony.
Panetta and Hillary - like all Democrats - think the American taxpayers have to be lied to, because if they knew the truth they might not re-elect Democrats, which would be the most horrible outcome in the world.
The MSM joins them in this; the MSM measures its effectiveness by its ability to make Americans believe the most outlandish nonsense.
I hope this gets legs and I hope you are correct
Yup. Which is why the ‘Rats concocted the phony “youtube video” excuse.
And CNN helped them get away with it at the “debate”
With all due respect, I think this is precisely why she will be the nominee. Her enormous capacity to lie has innoculated all potential supporters into numbed acceptance of it. No lie(s) can or will deny her the nomination.
Either send it to campaign email link or Twitter it. Twitter would get most exposure if done by many and retweeted
ALL responsible should be kicking at the bottom of a rope.....
Trey Gowdy blundered badly when he did not subpoena the Commander of the 6th Fleet. There is little doubt the 6th Fleet was monitoring the situation in Benghazi and a competent commander was steaming assets at flank speed toward it. No doubt a strike force of on board Marines and Seals were ready to go. Who ordered them to stand down and why is the huge unanswered question.
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