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
It’s not a “Bombshell” if nobody hears about it.
Pathetic.
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The policy seems it is better to curb our Freedom of Speech then to offend the middle east.
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I think it was his boxers, as well.
And hey...do any of you remember seeing a person’s video come out that was captured on some Libyan’s phone, maybe in the week or two after the attack? I remember seeing a video of a group of people outside of a house waiting to hear if the Ambassador was alive or dead...however, the voices were giddy and almost laughing. It was sickening to me, even though I couldn’t understand the language. And iIrc, wherever I got the link from, it was mentioned something about -— see, here’s evidence that the Ambassador was not in the hospital...he had been carried through the streets and then he was taken into a house where he was being raped, etc.
This is so hard to even type, because of what might have happened to our US Ambassador, but I haven’t seen that video pop up anywhere since.
Do any of you know what I might have seen? Anyone else see this?
“The kidnapping of Ambassador Stephens is becomming more and more likely to be the operational plan being hatched by Obama.”
EXCEPT rhe attackers didn’t even TRY to kidnap Stevens. When they came into the compound, they grabbed containers of diesel fuel and set the place on fire. The intention was murder from the jump.
If every FReeper and Lurker e-mailed it to their e-mail lists and Rush/Sean/BOR/Glenn, etc. it’ll be heard.
I believe that would be true whether he said 'go' or said 'no.'
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.
Oh, gee. Guess who will get the blame.
I agree I think it’s the only explanation.
Whoever gave the order to not engage made a choice and decided that the lives of four Americans were not worth as much as something else.
I wonder what it was.
Not pissing off the new Libyan govt.
The Fox reporter (Griffin?) reported this (the laser painting) already this morning. Said she had gotten it from boots on the ground in Benghazi; it was presumed that it was from some of the people who had been rescued by the former SEALs.
What a tragedy!!! I can't imagine leaving these dedicated Americans serving our Country in one of the most hostile parts of the world left to die a horrific death for the benefit of political ideology.
If Obama saw this massacre and then hopped on Air Force One to go to Vegas, Letterman and Beyonce/JZ gigs he needs to be tried as a war criminal.
My guess is that Obama’s handlers thought it best to do nothing (leaves no “action” that can be criticized), and repercussions can be diverted and explained away (wasn’t our fault, did what we could, not enough info, etc.)
It was all a cold political calculation. These leftist bastards don’t care about anything but their own money and power.
If the AFRICOM commander (a full general, I assume?) takes the blame, how was he smart enough to get to four stars?
Good grief!
How many more bombshells do we need!?
How many more? There haven’t been ANY “bombshells” yet. Not so much as one. A bombshell damages something. With Pravda covering obama’s ass every step of the way, obama isn’t being damaged by any of this.
"And the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the Secretary of State, our U.N. Ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. That's not what we do."
Yes, he is now lying about his lies.
Indeed, Obama has declared war on the Seals. This is the Seal unit that took out Bin Laden; the story barely saw the light of day.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/
Everyone needs to call and burn up Twitter and their Facebook pages and let them know they will be indicted in the coverup
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