PJ Media!
You’re metastasizing!
Cool!
Travis McGee, yours truly, was published in PJ Media today.
The title is “Benghazi’s Smoking Gun? Only the President can grant Cross-Border Authority.”
I posted the article on this thread above. The editors at PJ Media chose to focus exclusively on the CBA issue, which is fine with me, it’s their website and I’m glad to be on it, to get the word out about CBA.
However, here is the rest of the essay, as I originally submitted it to them:
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General Petraeus, however, has indirectly blown the whistle. He was probably “used” in some way early in the cover-up with the purported CIA intel link to the Mohammed video, and now he feels burned. So he conclusively said via his public affairs officer that the stand-down order did not come from the CIA. Well — what outranks the CIA? Only the national security team at the White House. That means President Obama, and nobody else. Petraeus is naming Obama without naming him. If that is not quite as courageous as blowing a whistle, it is far better than the disgraceful behavior of Panetta and Dempsey.
But in any event, Ambassador Stevens going to unsecure Benghazi on 9-11 of all days stinks to me of a setup. The ribbon cutting at the new Benghazi school cover story is laughably lame. You can bet that given his own input in the matter, Stevens would have told the Turks, “No, 9-11 is not a good day for us,” and stayed in Tripoli behind many high and thick walls. For him to go to hyper-dangerous Benghazi on 9-11 means the Turks insisted on that day, but why would they care about the meeting date, unless they were in on an assassination plan as the Judas goat?
Alternatively, the order for Ambassador Stevens to meet the Turks in Benghazi on 9-11 might have come down our own U.S. chain of command. Stevens seems to have been wearing two hats as ambassador and CIA arms shipper. His job involved moving between the far more secure embassy complex in Tripoli, the Benghazi “consulate,” and the CIA “annex.” So his orders might have come down either State Department or the CIA channels. I am unclear on his job title and true position, but either the CIA or State sent him his final instructions, and copies of those orders still exist, to be discovered on computer hard drives by future historians.
Ambassador Stevens meeting the Turks at the unsecure Benghazi “consulate” on 9-11 screams out to me of a deliberate setup. The Turkish “diplomats” (or arms shipment middlemen) left the meeting after dark and perhaps flashed their headlights to the Al Qaeda attack team commanders lurking in shadows. A coded text, a word on a phone, meaning, “The Amriki ambassador is there, with minimal security—proceed with the attack plan.” But that is pure speculation on my part. (The smoking gun clue will be the official CIA or State Department message ordering him to Benghazi on 9-11, perhaps using the preposterous “school opening” as a cover story for his later meeting with the Turks.)
I leave that for future investigators and historians. What I know for certain is that the rescue mission stand-down issue revolves around granting or withholding cross-border authority. And that sword of authority belongs 100 percent to President Obama. No weasel words or smokescreens should be allowed to cloud that very basic truth.
President Obama owns cross-border authority, so he owns the failure to rescue the American heroes who were fighting for their lives in Benghazi for seven hours. More than a hundred gung-ho Force Recon Marines were waiting on the tarmac in Sigonella just two hours away for the launch order that never came.
Semper Fidelis, President Obama?
There really is no doubt as to what happened.
This was supposed to be Obama’s Iranian hostage crisis for him to ride in on his white horse to save the day right before election.
It didn’t work for Carter, and Obama obviously failed to learn from history.
In the absence of answers, people are left with speculation.
I speculate that Obama was directly involved with conspiracy to commit high treason. Why else would you decrease security to the point of non-existence when the situation dictated the exact opposite?
Regardless of who was involved in orchestrating the situation and actions both before and during the attack, The blood of American soldiers and diplomats is indisputably on Obama’s hands.
I also find our mainstream media complicit in this for their failure to seek justice.
Great article.
Ive been comparing this to an AP article I read earlier:
This plays well with the posted article. A response did indeed come from the CIA and any available assets in Libya. That is the catch right there. The only people to respond were already in Libya, which gives footing to the idea that CBA was not granted.
Congratulations on your article! Great job.
Awesome article ~!
Congrats on PJM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks
Great job Travis, only one minor point. It has now been reported that Carter Ham was actually in Washington DC on 9/11, which adds yet another twist into this ongoing scandal.
Thank you Sir for the black and white image you’ve painted.
There are no more shades of gray.
Thank you for your service to our nation and for standing for the truth about what happened in Benghazi.
HOORAY PJ Media! HOORAY Travis McGee! Educational. Opens up a whole new line of questions in addition to those prior to the attack and our responses post event. The microscope on the timeline during the attack will be very telling. Thank you, sir.
While I'm on the subject, that so-called "parsing" might as well be called what it is: dissimulation. There's a good case to call it dissembling.
I sincerely appreciate your efforts.
Excellent article, Travis McGee! A radio appearance yesterday, and the PJ Media today! Thank you for all your hard work in trying to get the facts out regarding the treason surrounding Benghazi.
Great article and analysis! Thank you for your hard work in getting the facts out.
There’s major gaps in the cover stories.
Panetta: Dempsey, Ham, and I discussed it. Me decided not to go.
Ham: I was never ordered to Tom
Obama: I said go immediately (said during the second debate).
There’s major gaps in the cover stories.
Panetta: Dempsey, Ham, and I discussed it. We decided not to go.
Ham: I was never ordered to Tom
Obama: I said go immediately (said during the second debate).
I smell perfectly timed propaganda, do you?
From the NY Times
WASHINGTON — Thirty-three years after the event, Hollywood has turned its attention to an episode that traumatized the United States for months: the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran. But it has focused on what one participant called “a footnote”: the escape of 6 embassy personnel, not the 52 Americans who spent 14 months in captivity.
Great article. Appreciate your thoughts on my info below.
This article has always troubled me. She says she had a date with the Ambassodor which from what we have been told is ODD. She has free access in and out of Iran. She has done propaganda films? Agent of Iran? Why are they friends? connect the dots.
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