[TigersEye]

According to the CIA, the first calls for assistance came at 9:40 p.m. local time from a senior State Department official at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, to the CIA annex about a mile away.

That call was not simply a call to the annex. It was a Critical Incident Report that automatically triggered the alarm in Tripoli, D.C., Eurocom, Africom and every CentCom sit-room in the world. In D.C. that includes the WH sit-room, Pentagon sit-rooms, CIA sit-rooms and the State Dept. sit-room. Probabaly the NSA as well. All of those sit-rooms were already on high alert due to several other embassies having been under assault earlier in the day. FWIW that would have been 3:40 PM in D.C.

An alert of that nature would have immediately scrambled resources throughout the region who were already trained and assigned to respond.

[RobbyS]

What’s the old cavalry command ? Ride to the sound of the guns?