I hear you - I can’t find any other reference to that point in my “library.”
However - it may be a completely moot point. See a 2012 Breitbart article entitled: “FORMER SEAL: OBAMA NEVER GAVE ‘CROSS-BORDER AUTHORITY’ ORDERS”.
That rings a solid bell in my memory, which make sense because Spain and Italy would be "cross-border". A big however, it wasn't that Obambi wouldn't give orders, it was because no one would wake him because of his fund-raising trip to Vegas next morn.
So then, it was the Tripoli troops who had the problems of arriving late. You know those guys were major pissed.
The above begs the question, why did Bambi and Witch bomb Libya since it was cross-border from our bases in the Med? I've never understood their reasoning for deposing Gaddafi. They were having a civil war and both sides were committing atrocities IIRC. There had to be a bigger reason since Gaddifi gave up his WMD research and was long before put in his place by Pres. Reagan.
It must have been Deep State and/or military complex paybacks. It makes no sense to me - he was harmless to our national interests, unless I missed something at the time.