I’m trying not to assume anything. But I’m hearing different people who claim knowledge of how these things go, but whose claims don’t make sense with each other as far as I can see. So I’m trying to sort out whether the claims contradict each other.
I know Travis has military knowledge. I don’t know your background or how you know that covert CIA operations don’t involve collusion with the military, including contingency plans. If you are CIA you probably can’t tell me so I have no way of knowing how to evaluate the claims. I’m not doubting either you or Travis; I just have no way of verifying what is said. The system itself doesn’t allow me much way to verify what is said. It’s the nature of covert CIA operations, if I understand correctly...
But since you say the message got into CRITIC channels with an automatic distribution list, wouldn’t that mean that the military would have been drawn in? And if so, would that have activated military contingency plans as if this was NOT a covert CIA operation? The immediate question for me is whether or not the military was alerted and contingency plans went into effect, as Travis has described they would. Would the CRITIC channels have activated military contingency plans?
No, CRITICs do NOT activate military contingency plans
They just send people in the military intel watches scrambling for their binders with checklists that include notification/recall lists and references to military contingency plans.... and more checklists
Those checklists would start with being directed to implement the plan from top if the chain, starting with the NCA
I still feel there was no military contingency plan to insert US (or NATO) forces into Benghazi for a “rescue” or evacuation if a covert (or clandestine) CIA weapons tracking or weapon shipping operation headed by a US “Ambassador” was compromised and turned into an al Qaeda attack .... if that indeed what this was about
again, just guessing based on past real-life experience in operations and other planning