Here is a video of Rep. Chaffetz saying that Gen. Ham, commander of AFRICOM at that time, told him that assets were near enough to help and ready to go.There is no doubt whatsoever that the assets were in motion preparing to receive an order to go.AFRICOM leader General Carter Ham was never given the order to secure the consulate in Benghazi. Youtube 1:43
Adm. James Lyons (Ret.) on Growing Benghazi Scandal
ADMIRAL LYONS: …All those comforting words that “We don’t want to put our forces at risk.” We had people at risk—they were crying for help! In a situation, you go with the resources you have available—and, in this particular case, we did have that 130-man Marine force recon team sitting there at Sigonella. Even if I only got 50 of them over there, that would have been significant in turning the situation around. We may not have been able to save the ambassador, but we certainly could have saved those other two SEALs that were over on the annex.
ADMIRAL LYONS: In perpetuating this lie, we also had administration officials lying to Congressional committees. That’s a felony. So, “What difference does it make?” It makes all the difference in the world. You cannot flaunt the truth here, just walk away from it and, basically, tell the American public to stuff it. That’s not acceptable.
The point on the organizing the two Marine anti-terrorist teams in Rota, that was good to go ahead and stand ’em up. What I find incomprehensible: The first team, it took them 23 hours to go a few hundred miles from Rota to Tripoli. I could go around the world in 23 hours, so that makes absolutely no sense to me.
Don’t forget that General Ham was out on his tail quite shortly after Benghazi. Before Obama, generals were never fired, though admirals could be. Don’t know which is best in abstract, but when it comes to our CinC it is clearly a deleterious policy.
And .. I heard for the first time that General Ham was told that the rescue had already taken place. He reacted accordingly, and didn’t send other teams. This was shocking to hear for the first time when Gowdy gave their report.
I always wondered why General Ham had supposedly all but threatened the President because of the mess at Benghazi; especially when Ham learned he had been given incorrect information about the team being already evac.
Could that move have been on purpose to set up Ham to get fired ..?? I know Ham resigned .. but I never knew the exact circumstances. I also knew that Ham had made it known to a few that he was at the point of storming the WH .. and I just always wondered if Obama got wind of it .. and made sure Ham was tainted and forced to resign.
Thanks for links.
In a sane world we would prefer to inhabit, as General Lyons says, // You cannot flaunt the truth here, just walk away from it and, basically, tell the American public to stuff it. That’s not acceptable. //
Your “Pat Caddell called it” post nails it: these subhumans have no honor; we see clearly here AGAIN that TODAY the media is complicit to the bitter end. And it is a bitter end.