Leon Panetta needs to resign.
Will try to look thru the comments at Hotairand see if anything else shows up.
It was their commander in chief.
But I fully expect this administration to take full advantage of the CIA's obligation to stay quiet and try to pin any malfeasance on them.
“.....The American special operators, Woods, Doherty and at least two others were part of the Global Response Staff, a CIA element, based at the CIA annex and were protecting CIA operators who were part of a mission to track and repurchase arms in Benghazi that had proliferated in the wake of Muammar Qaddafi’s fall. Part of their mission was to find the more than 20,000 missing MANPADS, or shoulder-held missiles capable of bringing down a commercial aircraft. According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans. U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.......”
http://www.israpundit.com/archives/50224
This is only “breaking news” on Fox. Went to AOL, MSN, CNN, MSNBC, you can’t even find the word Benghazi on the main pages. Pathetic.
Why are there NO Democrats in Congress at all who are wanting to find out what happened?
The ambassador would be a skeleton in the closet the POTUS and SOS would not have wanted to linger around to some day tell the story.
This stinks to high heaven. Obama’s behavior all during, before and after was loopy. The guy they arrested about the “video”; what have they done with him? Of course, the “video” was a diversion meant to take the heat off Obama, you know, the guy who “killed Osama bin Laden and who lives in a bubble where Al Quaeda is ON THE RUN”. - If we cannot be shed of this phony on November 6, Lord help us!
I am SO damn mad about how Hillary, Obama and Biden behaved to the father of the boy who was killed at Benghazi trying to help rescue the people they’d left to die!! God, rid us of these fakes and phonies!
Maybe I’ve watched too who done its, but could this have been a murder. Was the ambassador put in a place where he was likely to be killed because someone wanted to get rid of him?
I wanted to stress the fact that Woods and Doherty were FORMER Navy Seals working for the CIA.
In some reports and comments, Woods and Doherty’s actions are being construed and critiqued in the context of active military service. But they were not active military. They were FORMER military now employed by the CIA.
The question we really should be asking is “why”. I read a few weeks ago that this “attack” was a staged kidnapping to take the embassador hostage and later trade him for the Blind Sheik. I assumed this theory was just speculation but the more we find out what really happened, the more plausible it becomes. Perhaps that theory is why they were made to stand down. Perhaps they knew too much about something (like the missing weapons) and their deaths would silence them. If either is true, impeachement is too good for them.
Has anyone in the media spoken to any of the 30+ people whose lives were spared because of the heroic acts of these Seals? An airplane ticket to Germany and then interview them all. Let us find out more.
Color me stupid, but things still don’t seem to add up.
What was the objective of the attackers?
45 days after the incident and no clear objective appears to be stated.
Terrorism?
In-your-face rebellion to the US?
A thousand Osama bin Ladens in a 9/11 re-enactment?
Kill a homosexual ambassador?
Interrupt ongoing business of the Ambassador?
Eliminate a knowledgeable source?
By direction of others to give Obama an October Surprise?
Kidnap the Ambassador?
Sucker others into the compound, having never been about the Ambassador?
Why attack the Annex 4-6hrs after the Residence?
Seemed to be preplanned fires.
If they attacked it, why didn’t they finish it when the Annex was unsupported by others than the Tripoli reaction team?
Did they confuse the ex-SEAL action as a rescue of the Ambassador, thinking he was now in the Annex, they began an assault on the Annex, only to later find out he was elsewhere, then ceased fire?
Why did they cease fire?
Were the attackers a different hand of a Black Op?
The attackers swing from a handful of elite tacticians to a gaggle of several platoons of pseudo political militant gun toting mobs without leadership. Elements of the attack are premeditated and well equipped. Others are oafish.
Time for the GOP to start Impeachment proceedings for the entire administration....NOW.
I don’t care whether Obama is re-elected or not....time to impeach him NOW...at least it puts on record that any Dems (and GOP) that block the impeachment support what happened in Libya, and the Obama Admin lies
Its time for the GOP to grab its manhood...stop acting like they have been acting on Illegal Aliens, Obama Eligibility, and cutting taxes...and get impeaching
This whole Benghazi thing is a disgrace. I’m ashamed that Americans were asking for help and the President was too busy getting ready for a big fundraiser to give Delta Force or the Air Force the go ahead to kick some muzzie ass. Obama can kiss my former military ass! Any chickensh*t who votes for him needs to stop calling themself an American. THEY ARE NOT AMERICANS. As for Harvey Beerstein and NAT GEO, they can shove their bin Laden movie up their collective @$$. It’s all a Hollyfag farce.
Panetta’s excuse that they did not have sufficient intel to send in the Delta unit does not hold water. If they had enough intel to send in the eight Marines from Tripoli, then they surely had enough intel to send in Delta as well. Why did you really tell Delta to stand down, Mr. Secretary???????
“Fox News reports CIA command refused to help Benghazi consulate during attack”
I thought I just saw a statement posted on Fox that said the opposite.
“...the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. “
Who, besides the president, has final say over the Director of the CIA? Biden?