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Source: Only President Could Have Made 'Stand Down' Call On Benghazi
Breitbart ^ | 5/7/13 | Kerry Picket

Posted on 05/07/2013 1:36:01 PM PDT by Nachum

A source with intimate information about the events that happened on the ground in Benghazi the night the U.S. Consulate and the CIA annex was attacked by terrorists told Breitbart News that, ultimately, only the President of the United States, or someone acting on his authority, could have prevented Special Forces either on the ground or nearby from helping those Americans who were under deadly assault.

According to the source, when the attack on the Consulate occurred, a specific chain of command to gain verbal permission to move special-forces in must have occurred. SOCAFRICA commander Lieutenant Col. Gibson would have contacted a desk officer at the time, asking for that permission.

That desk officer would have called Marine Corps Col. George Bristol, then in command of Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara. From there, Bristol would have made contact with Rear Admiral Brian Losey, then Commander of Special Operations Command Africa. Losey would have contacted four-star General Carter Ham, commander of U.S. AFRICOM at the time.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghaziresponse; benghazistanddown; democrat; down; libya; lies; obama; president; socafrica; stand; standdown; waronterror
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To: Sacajaweau

After his “pick-up” game with Reggie...”


101 posted on 05/07/2013 6:16:56 PM PDT by Shady (Libya shows us how Americans rate...)
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To: Toespi
"What did he do and who did he contact?"

And, did he make plenty of copies, deposit them in multiple locations for safekeeping, and make sure his life insurance premiums are current?

102 posted on 05/07/2013 6:32:42 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (No more usurpers.)
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To: luvbach1

Just like Klinton.


103 posted on 05/07/2013 6:34:59 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: Nachum
When do the hearings begin on Wednesday and will they be on a C-Span channel? I shall plan my day around them ... because I will savor watching as Gowdy skewers these lying bastiges.
104 posted on 05/07/2013 6:36:19 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: penelopesire
And wasn’t General Ham recently replaced..errr...retired?

His replacement was announced within a month of Benghazi...

105 posted on 05/07/2013 6:48:58 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Sequoyah101
What came of the fast and furious mess? Nothing. For all the posturing and testimony not a thing came of it.

It's in federal district court.

Holder's refusal to honor the House subpoena and the President's curious claim of Executive Privilege have been challenged in court.

The court will decide in favor of the House -- there is no precedent for them doing otherwise.

Then, we'll find out what the administration's next stalling technique is...

106 posted on 05/07/2013 6:54:30 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: MHGinTN

Link here...looks like it starts at 10:30 Central time:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/mobileschedule.php?month=5&day=8&year=2013&timezone=Central&net=3


107 posted on 05/07/2013 6:54:55 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: Tuketu

“Seems Gen Ham was purportedly initially arrested for refusing to stand down. Also another Gen in Italy was sendin assistance and was stopped and subsequently transferred...McDill?”

...and where the hell is Gen. Ham and that other General? If they were patriotic enough to defy the stand down orders, and that caused them to be relieved of command because of it, you would think they would stand up for themselves and tell their story. Are they more worried about their pensions, than to gain retribution for the lives of their fellow citizens who were left to die in Benghazi? Are there no patriots left in this Country? Generals, you have an opportunity to change history! Please step up and do the right thing for the good of our Country! This may be the last chance we have to reel in this tyrant in the White House before he finishes the USA off for good!!


108 posted on 05/07/2013 6:57:15 PM PDT by Batman11 (Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
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To: Batman11

Bump!!


109 posted on 05/07/2013 7:01:49 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: so_real
"The pot will boil over.

Every day I pray that these villains are exposed for all the world to see. All of it, including and especially dude's identity fraud, which if had been made known before the election in 2008 could have headed off a whole host of horrors.

110 posted on 05/07/2013 7:06:35 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (No more usurpers.)
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To: Nachum

It must be bad: PBS led with the sexual assault ‘problem’ in the military. They can’t even talk about Benghazi.

Meanwhile they are having a Watergate retrospective and have invited viewers to send in their memories of that time! Back in the day when investigative reporting meant destroying the right kind of politician.


111 posted on 05/07/2013 7:17:38 PM PDT by madameguinot
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To: F15Eagle
From your lips to God’s ear.

Psalm 109:8 seems the only thing one can pray over this abomination.

Great passage of scripture! Actually a good portion of this chapter seems to be a solid indictment against 0bama, and the curse against our land as a result of America voting to put this islamic, anti-American socialist into the presidential office.

112 posted on 05/07/2013 7:27:42 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Nachum

Anybody know a reliable source for the statements floating around that there was a Special Ops Team in Tripoli and a C-130 in Tripoli?

Hope people aren’t pushing unsubstantiated rumors that will get shot down.


113 posted on 05/07/2013 7:31:11 PM PDT by cookcounty (An armed society is a polite society.)
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To: potlatch

I gotta give it to ya, gurl fren! NoBODY can make an animated gif as well as YOU!!!


114 posted on 05/07/2013 7:39:20 PM PDT by yorkie
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To: penelopesire
I think General Ham needs to zip his pants up in the front, rather then the side or behind, and have the courage to speak up and declare specifically who it was that told him to stand down. I don't understand how these cowardly bastards are willing to lie down in front of 0dumb0 and cover for this RAT bastard commie pig-in-chief.

And I believe that General Ham should have acted on principle & in defense of the United States and should have defied the order to stand down, and then proceed to launch the military response or air cover.

115 posted on 05/07/2013 7:42:07 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Nachum

Leftism is insidious, it’s affected the command structure of the military to the point where “leave no man behind” has now become “the hell with the men, cover my behind.”


116 posted on 05/07/2013 7:46:43 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: yorkie

Bless you Yorkie, that’s one of my alltime favorite compliments!! I do work hard on them and appreciate your kind words. (HUGS)


117 posted on 05/07/2013 7:52:32 PM PDT by potlatch (~be content with small victories and simple pleasures~)
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To: Batman11

Are they more worried about their pensions, than to gain retribution for the lives of their fellow citizens who were left to die in Benghazi? Are there no patriots left in this Country?

1. Yes
2. No, sadly there are not.

Pensions, prestige, getting into all the right cocktail parties, as well as getting all the right positions AFTER retirement also ...don’t forget about THAT.


118 posted on 05/07/2013 8:11:06 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: MestaMachine
"billy has an entire host of very well paid and highly placed attorneys just waiting for him to snap his fingers. She’s covered."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Right about that! He snapped his fingers and a team got engaged on Benghazi, Day 2.

A well-oiled machine---crime perfected to an art.

Is there any hope of getting to Obama without hanging Hillary?

Bill Clinton: Stop obsessing over Hillary

119 posted on 05/07/2013 8:47:05 PM PDT by thouworm (DEMOGOGUE: leader who makes use of prejudices, false claims and promises to gain power.)
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To: penelopesire

Thanx


120 posted on 05/07/2013 8:49:19 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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