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.
At the very least, they were accessories to the criminal acts.
Clinton’s belief is Pragmatic Truth.
Stevens knew about discovered the weapons deals and was about to tell the world about the deals. Someone killed him and the information died with him.
I’m at a loss to think of another reason she would have refused to send aid. Of course there’s the thought that she was just too stupid to come to his aid too.
In loose terms, didn’t we know about the weapons deals?
McCain advocated for them openly. He advocated for monetary aid to them as well.
It was the good vs bad terrorist argument. He saw the Muslim Brotherhood as a good terrorist group. He saw al Qaeda as a good terrorist group at one point.
I think he tried to make the argument there were good factions within al Qaeda, but that demonstrated how far gone he was rather than how good parts of al Qaeda were.
Hillary was right in there with him. Lindsey Graham was also, but I will say this about Graham. It’s doesn’t absolve him, but Graham was a follower. He never would have instigated this type of stuff on his own. It was McCain/Clinton that drove this effort.
Obama, Clinton, McCain, each part of the same evil cabal. Soros is mixed in too. McCain was as cozy with him as the other two were/are.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/spinning-up-as-we-speak-1449688261
‘Spinning Up as We Speak’
Story from December 2015.
Excellent reply.
McCain, Graham, Clinton and Obama were up to their necks in getting weapons form Libya to their Isis buddies in Syria.
I am surprised that Matthew Drudge of the Drudge Report has not yet mentioned the Hillary Clinton diapers story, especially considering that WikiLeaks’ top lawyer in London, was murdered - pushed in front of a train - within 3 days of Wikileaks’ Hillary diaper story breaking!
Excellent and really important point, not mentioned anywhere else. Thanks!
Someone “in the world” sends an email as a last resort because Ms. I’ll-be-there-for-the-3:00-phone-call wasn’t answering her frickin’ phone, and neither were her “top deputies”.
Thank you.
Totally agree with your assessment.
” than they are with American lives “
Amen!
Read my post 38. All of it was reported in the foreign press. You just have to dig for it.
Additionally, after the attack Putin when Putin sent his condolences he included that he warnEd us this would happen but, we refused to listen.
What if Russian intelligence had access to Dept of State secrets. They knew ahead of time about the use of chemical weapons and what we were doing in Benghazi. They would also know our future plans for the region.
It is quite possible our government helped a foreign militia use chemical weapons on its own people. If we can say this is true, what else are they capable of?
Is ISIS being used to forment strife to sway public opinion? Is it beyond the scope of reason that the coup in Turkey was in fact planned by us and a little known Turkish dissident was going to be set up as the scape goat? BTW this scapegoat has been associated with Hillary Clinton.
Turkey has admitted Russia gave them intelligence about the coup before it happened. Turkey suddenly is working with Russia, when just a few months ago Turkey shot down a russian aircraft? Now they are talking about leaving NATO?
Why wouldn’t we try to remove another head of state?
What do you think will happen if Russia can produce evidence to our allies that the US was involved with the destabilization of the EU through terrorism, assination and mass migration?
We are going to have very few friends left here pretty soon.
The only thing damning about this information is that the GOP in Congress were too inept to reach the conclusion that Clinton and Obama intentionally withheld assistance to the Americans under fire in Benghazi. They were sacrificed for political expediency and the Republicans - with a few notable exceptions - let her get away with it.
“Why do you suppose the Obama administration is pretending that the $400 million paid to Iran as ransom for the hostages held by that country was not actually ransom, but instead was a settlement of a claim — a claim that we now know was rejected in the courts in 2009?”
Several alleged freepers here bought the Fraud’s story and told us we “owed” the money to Iran.
“Whatever it is....no one who gets their news from the MSM will hear about it. When they see it in ads...won’t believe it because it’s not in the news.”
What’s good enough for their god in the white mosque....
Thank you. Yes they were.
She purposefully did not acknowledge communication from those who could have saved their lives.
But, for the sake of the general public who has no idea what is going on. We will say she is incompetent. Final result is the same. Different motive tho.
Right.
To Hillary’s inevitable dismay, ontological truth will remind her there’s only one definition for the word “is.”
Hillary = Jezebel
(For more info on corrupt Ahab and his wife Jezebel who was even worse, see 1 Kings 16-21 and 2 Kings 9 in the Bible.)
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