Posted on 08/22/2016 1:38:11 AM PDT by V K Lee
The latest in the email scandal plaguing the campaign of Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has provided proof of what many on the right have known all along — that then-Secretary of State Clinton left Americans to die in Benghazi.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave testimony in 2013 stating that there was no time to get help to Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, where four Americans died. An email obtained by Judicial Watch and recently released appears to be in direct contradiction of this claim.
Fox News reported that an urgent email from Panetta’s Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash to top Clinton deputies asked for help as the attack unfolded in Benghazi and stated that forces were ready to move to assist them:
“I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton]. 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.”
The email was sent during the early stages of the eight-hour attack at 7:19 p.m. Washington time on Sept. 11, 2012, after the first wave of the attack on the diplomatic outpost but before the mortar strike that killed former Navy SEALs Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, who were working as private CIA security contractors.
The non-profit watchdog group Judicial Watch said this in a statement about the information revealed in the email:
“This leaves no doubt military assets were offered and ready to go, and awaiting State Department signoff, which did not come.”
This email proves that there was time and that there were forces available to assist in the Benghazi attack that resulted in the death of four Americans: Ty Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Ambassador Chris Stevens.
While the information is new to the public, lawmakers investigating the case already had access to the email, according to Matt Wolking, spokesman for the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
This new revelation is proof that the Obama administration lied about its ability to send forces to assist in Benghazi.
The email also clearly shows that while Americans were under siege in Benghazi, Clinton was likely more concerned with spinning the lie that the attacks occurred because of an internet video.
Anyone who is more concerned with spinning a false narrative than they are with American lives has no business being commander in chief.
Point 1: There are a lot of libs in military families, and those libs might decide to vote Green in protest of Hillary. Or their energy drops when the know what kind of creep she is.
Point 2: Truth and falsehood matter to a lot of people.
Last but NOT least: Military families get energized over outrages like this.
Look, I understand the Benghazi issue, soup to nuts.
I just think that anyone who is motivated to vote by it is already on board, and that VRWC attacks on Hillary over it are a motivator for her voters to show up.
It’s a prudential judgement, not a value one, and of course YMMV.
I’m glad you are informed on the issue, but energizing the base is still a factor.
This weakens energy for Hillary and builds massive energy for Trump.
OK. I see how the Iranian payoff might be handled with these hostages and perhaps the hostages are even willing to be hostages. But I thought Benghazi was about arming the groups that were to become ISIS and their toppling of Assad in order to allow the Sunnis and the to take over Syria. Obama has always sided with the Sunnis and the House of Saud except in his paying off the Iranians. The Iranians must be extorting Obama in some way which is no surprise to me since Obama’s past is nothing but a question mark.
Good one.
2 more lawyers, 2 more Vince Fosters!
Who is Mr. Scott?
Bkmrk
it was for ransom but it was to be an exchange for the Blind Shiek ................................ It was delayed waiting for the word that the attackers had Stevens. Doughty, Woods and the other guys were not suppose to be there. Mursi wanted Rahman turned over to Egypt back in June. There was talk that the attackers were Egyptian members of the Sheik Rahman brigade. Yes folks, it still stinks of a $$$$ deal, probably with some kickbacks too. maybe in 50 years the truth will come out. If it came out now, there would be lynchings.
You are entirely correct. The plan was going well until Stevens and Smith went into the “safe room” and the idiots on the ground came up with the idea to smoke them out. When the expected video showing Stevens a captive, instead showed him either dead or very close to it, the panic set in at 1600 because they had not considered this in their plan.
That is why they went into hunker mode to cover themselves instead of being concerned for the rest of the contingent over there. They also had no concept of the idea that those trained in the arts of combat would do a totally unnatural thing for them and run to the sound of gunfire rather than running away from it. Seeing this in their live feed, they then concocted the video meme that I’m sure was mediabot tested before it was trotted out.
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