Interesting!
Hardly a revelation. There were numerous press accounts of it several weeks ago.
CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack October 26, 2012According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans. U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.
Other than the fact that the CIA can be counted on to lie in any case, they have only denied holding prisoners at the annex. Which leaves a lot of the rest of the Earth un-denied as possible locations for these alleged prisoners. Maybe it was across the street from the annex. Maybe it was one block over. Maybe it was in the secret bunker underneath the annex, which, technically, is not "at the annex".
If Petraeus is any kind of a man and has any decency left, he will go to that hearing and spill his guts on Benghazi. If he can’t do that for those men who lost their lives and for their families—then Petraeus is a worthless coward parasite.
Sounds like the general has been talking too much.
she spills the beans on Benghazi, not just that they were holding terrorists but that they weren’t sent help. Sounds like she was angry that the Obama administration was trying to have Petreus take the blame for the failure to rescue the guys (and indeed, his “resignation” is timed to suggest they want to keep him from talking). so she spilled the beans...
call it a preemptive strike. Too bad no one noticed her speech on youtube before the election.
It’s actually called the Combatant Commander In Extremis force. The CI is a direct action counterterrorist group made up of specops guys; the unit is attached to every Special Forces group. When the call went out from Benghazi, it would have been picked up by Tripoli and sent to the White House Situation Room, Langley, and to AFRICOM (CENTCOM Africa).
That distress call should have triggered the AUTOMATIC deployment of the CI unit, as they are not only REQUIRED to respond but also to maintain a “hot ready” status - planes fueled and on the tarmac, gear ready to go - so that they can respond immediately... meaning 25 minutes until they are in the air and en route.
The CI assets are about a 2-hr flight from Benghazi, but we could have had close air support on station within about 45 minutes.
The only reason that the CI force would not have deployed, and that the air assets were not ordered in (or were recalled) would be if they got an order from the WH or State (which would have originated from the WH due to cross-border authority) to do so... which is why the CIA has already said they gave no such order.