Perhaps a nearby listening post of some agency picked up some of what was happening and sent a CRITIC.
There have been allusions to a CIA Station Chief “In Tripoli”, maybe he panicked or got desperate
You assume there was a military contingency plan, I assume there was not, beyond a normal Tripoli embassy evacuation plan.
These guys were not in Tripoli, but in one or more “safe houses” in Benghazi
Presumably no one knew where they were, except the Agency and al Qaeda
I used to have a sign above my desk that said
“Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my mine”.
Unfortunately this one cost lives of good people when what they hadn't planned for,happened. And there was no Jack Ryan to come get them.
My “claims” are no such thing, merely educated guesses. They will never be “verified”
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?