Posted on 10/26/2012 6:30:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BOMBSHELL: US troops in Benghazi would not have been painting targets on the ground unless there was air support overhead. But someone called it off – And the decision most likely came from the White House.
FOX News reported earlier today that security officers on the ground in Benghazi had a laser planted on a target that was firing on the annex.
The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights.
So there were two drones in the air recording the attack on the ground. And now we know the CIA team at the annex was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. The White House was able to watch the attack live back in Washington DC. Yet, yesterday Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said this,
“The U.S. military did not get involved during the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, last month because officials did not have enough information about what was going on before the attack was over.”
How much more information did they need?
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Then there’s this bombshell at BlackFive from a former Delta operator:
Having spent a good bit of time nursing a GLD (ground Laser Designator) in several garden spots around the world, something from the report jumped out at me.
One of the former SEALs was actively painting the target. That means that Specter WAS ON STATION! Probably an AC130U. A ground laser designator is not a briefing pointer laser. You do not “paint” a target until the weapons system/designator is synched; which means that the AC130 was on station.
Only two places could have called off the attack at that point; the WH situation command (based on POTUS direction) or AFRICOM commander based on information directly from the target area.
If the AC130 never left Sigonella (as Penetta says) that means that the Predator that was filming the whole thing was armed.
If that SEAL was actively “painting” a target; something was on station to engage! And the decision to stand down goes directly to POTUS!
This is HUGE. It should be obvious by now that someone is not telling the truth. As Blackfive says,
“This is bigger than Watergate!… The worst has to be the team on the ground knowing that the President just left you to die.“
A caller today discussed this with Rush Limbaugh.
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Here is part of that conversation.
CALLER: Well, there’s three networks, Rush. The e-mails that have been released are unclassified e-mails. On the top secret side, a flash traffic message from the embassy Tripoli to the White House Situation Room, it’s like an IM. I mean, it’s immediately responded to. You have to acknowledge receipt of it. Okay? So it’s immediate. It gets to the person, the watch officer sitting there, boom, flashes on his screen, he has to acknowledge receipt. And then there’s a protocol for who he then sends it to. He physically turns to someone, the senior guy on watch, “This is a critical element of information. POTUS needs to hear this,” and that’s what would have happened.
So no one in the White House can deny that — well, they can deny it, but the fact is the protocol says someone marched their happy little ass up to the senior guy standing next to POTUS and said, “Sir, ambassador in Libya is in peril.” And if he was missing, that is even a higher precedence. And then the chain would have also gone out automatically to the geographic combatant commander, AFRICOM, and he would have then turned to his special operations commander and said, “I want the In-Extremis Force, you know, strip ready in five minutes.” And evidently they were strip ready in Sigonella and they would have the assets to penetrate the airspace, you know, an MC-130 papa, which is a C-130 specially equipped with electronic countermeasures. They didn’t need permission to enter Libyan airspace, okay?
I’m giving you a lot of Inside Baseball stuff, and maybe putting myself in a little peril by doing it, but the In-Extremis Force, they would have been chomping at the bit to do this. It was turned down, POTUS, at his five p.m. Eastern time meeting with the principals, that’s when he put the kibosh on everything. It was a conscious act. It has to be because, you know, the In-Extremis Force is required to be prepared to do In-Extremis non-combatant evacuation operations for its geographic responsibility, the entire continent of Africa. So there’s always somebody ready to go, and the aircraft are always prepared to go.
Read the rest here. Hat Tip Truth and Common Sense
I heard Chaffetz say that on Hannity tonight.
[paraphrased]:
I went to Iraq. I asked Ham why support was not sent. He answered ‘Because nobody asked.’
Those reports you are hearing are true. :)
Hell no, it wasn’t incompetence! Chip Woods, Ty Woods’ father, called it what it was. It was murder.
I’m missing something. How do we know that either Woods or Doherty were painting a target with a GLD? That’s something that leaves no mark, obviously, so what makes anyone say this happened? Did the overhead drone record the light of the laser?
Here’s the Fox news timeline sequence of events for anyone who wants to study this. An amazing aspect of what these American Hero’s encountered,
At 2:10 you see the escape vehicle(armored car) gets fired on from a ‘crowd’, 2 grenades were thrown under it, then hit with machine gun fire from 2 feet away;
Video
Timeline: Libya attack minute by minute
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1925141359001/timeline-libya-attack-minute-by-minute/?playlist_id=903226511001
Speculation only: I would not be surprised if he makes his 9/11 moment by sacking an underling in grand style for not making him “personally aware” just in time for the election.
Rush military caller says that Obama ordered no response to Benghazi attack video 12:21
Unfortunately for Stephens and Obama, the level of resistance exceeded the expectations of that which the plan needed to succeed.
To me, it's the only explanation.
Obama could have been directing terrorist traffic to the consulate and the MSM would sill cover for him.
I wonder what it was.
That is the real question.
Something was going on that the ambassador was involved in that was so top secret and controversial that obumbler was determined that it never be discovered.
His mistake was, as is the case with pathological liars, believing that no one would doubt him.
The result of insane ego.
I never did understand how anyone could have voted for obumbler, but it would seem to me that even the most uninformed voter in the world would not vote for him after today's news.
Devastating.
The four American lives, including the first Ambassador killed since 1979 (Afghanistan), were sacrificed so that Obama could retain the election talking point that alQaeda was in decline ("Osama is dead and GM is alive"), and to avoid the Iran-Contra-style embarrassment of having the US population find out that Obama was supplying alQaeda with weapons to help oust Qaddafi and keep the Arab Spring rolling.
Probably worth the cost, to Democrats.
Earlier I posted that there was a C-130 in the air at the embassy. I was challenged on the issue and had to back off because I believed I read a post addressing a C-130 over another location at another time, and confused the issue.
It seemed reasoned that we would have an air asset in the area if the were lasing targets.
Now I’m wondering. Am I going to be proven right?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2950758/posts?page=118#118
IIRC FoxNews reported this.
That makes Obama a traitor and murderer.
A wiff of something very rotten just breezed past my nostrils......perhaps an even larger underground stench awaits discovery.
Who hired that convict to make an “F” rated movie and then used it?
Why is there not widespread demand for the Obama’s immediate resignation over this? All the sound and fury signifies nothing but hype at this point.
It could have been more lives lost- some people made it, IIRC.
I just watched/heard that too..also, Issa said they’re getting all this info from whistleblowers? I got the feeling that they have more but are going to trickle it out. But, how much worse can it get??
& I’m still hearing nothing but crickets from the disgusting LSM.
So, does this mean Spooky wasn’t in the air???
Can Hamm act without authorization from Panetta in a fight like that?
Obama should be hoping he loses the election. He could avoid impeachment that way.
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