"He said there was a drone aloft but not directly over the area at the time the attack began."
Sec. Panetta,
Keep talking, you idiot. Keep contradicting the previous statements from you, your people, and your boss.
Or did he ride the brains of Gulf War 1 General Norman Schwarzkopf
“He said there was a drone aloft but not directly over the area at the time the attack began.
He said the drone was redirected and arrived in time to record some of the attack. But he described what the drone saw as “looking down, seeing a bunch of buildings and fires, a lot of chaos on the ground.””
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For what purpose was a drone aloft nearby, yet security had been scaled back?
Translation:
We armed Al Qaeda with such high-tech weapons that a rescue team would have been slaughtered upon arrival.
First of all, the battle lasted for more than 6, 7 hours! And more indications that there would be trouble over the area in the days prior.
Why can’t we deploy a freking drone directly over the area?
Someone(s) should have been watching the drone live feed, but not to Sec. Panetta’s knowledge???!!! Is it even plausible after > 40 days?
This could have been the target.
“(CNN) Panetta on Benghazi attack: ‘Could not put forces at risk’”
Yeah, someone might break a nail.
Where are the REPUBLICAN LEADERS(?)
Reverse this situation with an R as Pres and the Dems would be 24/7 hits, especially with an election 2 weeks away.
I don’t expect the R’s to be quite as nasty as the D’s might be - but at least stand up and demand SOMETHING.
“”You don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on,” Panetta said”
If this is your thinking Panetta then BRING back ALL of our men and women overseas that are serving!
Hmmmm
Was Panetta locked out of a secret CIA/WH (and State Dept? was HRC part of it or kept out of direct channels to ensure she had plasuible deniability) operation to provide arms to Syrian jihadists via the US Ambassador to Libya, via an innocuous undefended operation site in Benghazi?
Of all the scenarios to try to account fof the WH puzzling cover up, this one is starting to make sense.
A CIA covert operation gone wrong, so-called militia “allies” gone over to the dark side in an al Qaeda directed revenge attack, and a WH-directed cover up using a video as mob incitement excuse
Of course B. Hussein Obama can’t come clean-
endrunning Congress and pissing off the Russians and maybe NATO too is real bad ju-ju
Curious silence by Petraeus, eh
al Qaeda B O M B E D the Pentagon and America.
But Panetta DEFENDS them?
This is simple treason, but for who?
and for how much?
This confirms my initial reaction:
Obama pounded the table and declared:
“We will NOT inject American forces into another mid-East country and create the impression we’re involved in a civil war!”
From there, the team set about inventing excuses.
This says it all to me. The U.S. forces there say they are in the middle of a firefight, but that is not good enough for Panetta. He needs a full sitrep from a disinterested party to evaluate what is going on.
Two observations:
1. What is the purpose of our military, if we won’t use it if there is a risk?
2. Why would anyone ever agree to represent our country abroad in an embassy, if the US will not protect you.
I remember that during my time in the service, I never wanted to be “put at risk”. I was willing, and from time to time it happened, but it wasn’t my first choice. However, given a choice of Americans being raped and murdered by foreign terrorists while I sit safe and far away, or being put at risk with my men, I’m with just about all of our military - ready to go. We’ve got a whole lot more Captain John Paul Jones, Admiral David Farragut, General George Patton, and Private Mike Clark in us than we have of that sissy, Panetta. Our military exists to protect the country and its citizens from this sort of situation, and if we’re just there to hold paperwork drills and uniform inspections safely at sea or in a well-protected base far from danger, there is no point in having a military at all.
“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.”
- John Paul Jones
“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
- Admiral David Farragut
“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”
- General George Patton
“We signed up knowing the risk. Those innocent people in New York didn’t go to work thinking there was any kind of risk.”
- Pvt. Mike Armendariz-Clark, USMC (in Afghanistan, September 20, 2001)
He said it was not enough to discern exactly what was happening.
What did you think it was, you dumb a**? A weenie roast???
Just why is there a drone floating around over Libya for no apparent reason? Aren’t drones at a premium and take maybe a week or so to be assigned to a particular area?
Hey Panetta was Obama informed while all this was taking place so he could act like he did for Bin Laden
That's cricket noise. I'm absolutely speechless.