Posted on 11/02/2012 3:29:07 PM PDT by Travis McGee
As more information comes to the light about the Obama administration's Benghazi cover-up, a former Navy SEAL officer who once took a military detachment to Libya suggests President Barack Obama was either AWOL -- essentially an "empty chair" -- or deliberately denied Americans under siege in Benghazi the aid they needed by not authorizing "cross-border authority," without which rescue operations could have taken place.
Matt Bracken, the former SEAL, writes "only the president can give the order for our military to cross a nation’s border without that nation’s permission." He notes that Obama granted "cross-border authority" for Americans to enter Pakistani airspace to take out Osama bin Laden but, "in order to prevent a military rescue in Benghazi," all Obama had to do was not grant the authority and any rescue missions would not have been able to go forward without the CBA.
As soon as terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Libya, dozens of headquarters -- including AFRICOM and EUROCOM -- are notified so they can begin their planning for rescue operations, but, as Braken writes,
"there is one thing they can’t do without explicit orders from the president: cross an international border on a hostile mission."
Had Obama issued the order, Bracken says records would exist and could be immediately provided:
"We can be 100% certain that cross-border authority was never given. How do I know this? Because if CBA was granted and the rescue mission execute orders were handed down, irrefutable records exist today in at least a dozen involved component commands, and probably many more."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
thanks again Matt for all your insights.
Your books were great, but real life is where it counts.
and your makin’ it count.
Lurking’
AP November 2, 2012
- 10:30 p.m. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House and discussing the attack. Panetta returns to the Pentagon and has a series of meetings, including with Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command.
I may have missed it, but this is the first I have heard anything about O being involved that late in the evening.
Damning IMO, considering his directive to do everything possible and then refuse to convene the CSG. It's worse than O going to bed.
Oh yeah, and by the way. If he was there in real time, he knew then this had nothing to do with a video. When did they sit down and make up that lie?
Matt, you are a true patriot. Thank you for the info and for pushing it into the light.
Lewinsky got Clinton impeached.
Benghazi will get Ogabe , H Clinton et al imprisoned for Treason, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Sedition. They are toast. It is only a matter of time.
Well done, sir. Keep swinging.
I’ve been spreading the word to all regardless of political gender.
Thank you!
re: my post above
Crap.. 10:30 Benghazi time. Never mind! I hate it when that happens :)
I just read that Panetta is saying there were no C-130s nearby but his words sound like weasel words to me.
I think he put it they were a continent away. Whey didn’t he say none within 2000 miles away? Sicily is a continent away since it is in Europe and Libya is in Africa.
I know a few embassy guard Marines and they are PISSED! They know Obama has been lying as they know only Obama can give the order to go in and he obviously did not give that order.
You have Freepmail.
You can bet they are pissed. If it’s confirmed that a USMC Force Recon company was in Sig raring to go, they’ll be even more pissed.
Great catch on classic weasel-words: “A continent away.”
Morocco is a “continent away” from Spain, what 20 miles across at Gibraltar?
It’s further from Germany to Gibraltar than to Benghazi. The QRF couldn’t make it to Benghazi? What, union rules?
“We’re just the QRF for the exclusive use of Eurcom. You Africom boys find your own QRF.”
Bullshit.
It took me a while but I finally figured out what QRF stands for. It is “Quick Reaction Force” isn’t it?
Yeah, saying something is a continent away sounds impressive but in actual fact means almost nothing. Someone could be hiking in the Urals at the continental divide and be only a few feet from another continent. In fact they could jump back and forth from and to Europe and Asia as much as they wanted.
I had a few pals send this to Drudge. I did as well.
Thanks. I think it’s passed its moment. The WHite HOuse obfuscation team was outstanding, with help from Sandy and the election timing.
FEBRUARY 2011 : () Last week, four Americans aboard the sailing vessel Quest were seized by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. A U.S. warship was ordered to the scene as the seaborne terrorists headed for safe haven in Somalia. If past is prologue, it should have ended like previous armed rescue operations conducted by U.S. Navy SEALs, U.S. Marines, South Korean navy commandos and even Russian and French special operations units — with the safe recovery of nearly all hostages.
But in this case, our ships were inexplicably ordered to simply tail the captured yacht while an FBI hostage negotiator conducted a parley with the pirates. During the negotiations, all four hostages were killed. ————Obama-Inspired Chaos (Oliver North), Creators Sydicate ^ | February 24, 2011 | Oliver North , Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:36:29 PM by jazusamo
We are so close to exposing this, and the frustration is palpable.
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