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’m watching FoxNews. I either heard it there or here.
I cut my finger a few minutes ago, and I’m having a hard time typing. I’m going to go for now.
It isn’t serious, but I’d like it to stop bleeding before I go on.
I’ll come back.
They just mentioned this on Greta;
TRANSCRIPT: Presidential debate on foreign policy at Lynn University
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/22/transcript-presidential-debate-on-foreign-policy-at-lynn-university/
Obama “Now with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way;”
I am not sure what it means, but I do know this. No matter what kind of BS spin Obama throws out, Chaffetz went to Libya (I said Iraq earlier. Sorry-brain fart) and spoke to people and knows what he was told.
Greta is on this now. Said the rest of the show will be about this.
It’s him. Look at his nose. I could post the pic but it’s extremely graphic.
Obama has gone to war against the SEALS.
He’s not gonna win this one.
Thanks for that link TE. Unbelievable, simply incomprehensible. Where did the order not to shoot come from? Panetta? Hillary? Obama?
Take care of yourself DO. Get back soon.
Woods reported that he was painting a target.
If that's true then someone disobeyed a direct order from the POTUS.
It's not true.
obama is a murderer.
This was going to be Obama's "October Surprise". He would be the hero, getting our Ambassador released.
Bing West just said if things happened as Obama said there would have beeb a written order which passed from the Joint Chiefs through the chain of command.
There would be a paper trail the entire way.
This reminds me of 0bama deciding NOT to retrieve or destroy the drone lost to Iran except this time it’s people instead of drones. Typical 0bama. He votes ‘present’ so as not to offend Muslims and to protect them from collateral damage as Americans die.
There may very well have been good reason to not put more US lives and expensive assets at risk in what the military probably rightly suspected to be a Russian/Syrian/Iranian trap. Note that the fighting went on for many hours when it could have been over quickly. Was that designed to sucker the US into a much bloodier ambush? If it was a state-supported and well-orchestrated attack, then Pentagon planners would have had to anticipate anti-aircraft threats to a C-130 or a Blackhawk Down situation for would-be rescuers. Here’s a pretty good take on how that would have evolved, linking the attack to Russian exposure of the US effort to move arms (including chemical weapons) from Libya to Syria via Turkey: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5058
Rush military caller says that Obama ordered no response to Benghazi attack video 12:21
Listen to that and I think you will have your answer.
Obama didn’t say “we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way” in the second debate;
Transcript of Second Presidential Debate
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/16/transcript-second-presidential-debate/
OBAMA: “So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team and I gave them three instructions.
Number one, beef up our security and procedures, not just in Libya, but at every embassy and consulate in the region.
Number two, investigate exactly what happened, regardless of where the facts lead us, to make sure folks are held accountable and it doesn’t happen again.
And number three, we are going to find out who did this and we’re going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I’ve said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them.”
Seems farfetched that laser and IR can be tracked with the visible spectrum camera on a cell phone.
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