Posted on 06/17/2013 2:33:11 PM PDT by don-o
Below is from my FNC colleague Justin Fishel:
Subject: Fox First: General Carter Ham to testify on Benghazi for first time next week
Fox News has learned that the House Armed Services Committee will hold a classified briefing next Weds June 26 at 9:00 on Benghazi.
Briefers will include:
Gen. Carter Ham (ret.) He was head of AFRICOM during Benghazi attack.
LTC Gibson
RADM Brian Losey Special Operations Command Africa
This is being coordinated by the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the HASC. It will be closed door but will be the first time Ham has been questioned by Congress about his oversight of military assets that were available and why they werent sent to Benghazi last Sept 11/12. Ham was in the Pentagon at the time and oversaw the military response.
LTC Gibson is the Army Lieutenant Colonel who Greg Hicks said was told to stand down with his 3 other Special Forces when they wanted to go to Benghazi on the morning of Sept 12. We have not heard from him or Admiral Loissy, who was the head of Special Ops in Africa. He was in Europe coordinating from his base in Germany. He can speak to where the Special operations teams or CIF (Commanders in extremis force) was based and when it was told to deploy and why it wasnt sent to Libya.
Again this will be closed door.
(Excerpt) Read more at gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com ...
But has he been gotten to and how many loved ones does he have?
Who ever started this rumor? Gen. Carter was not relieved of duty. Never, as far as I can tell.
If you’ve ever observed a bully’s social group at work it’s a fact that as soon as one person SUCCESSFULLY stands up to the bully the flood gates open. They are no longer in fear or under his power.
Hopefully we will all be able to watch this phenonenum as it unfolds.
It had an article in it about how retired Soldiers can face a court martial. I wonder why they put that information out at this time?
does that go for the CIC?
And Snowden’s a well-read guy. He knows you don’t strike the king unless you kill him.
how is that transparency again?...
He’s a chess player. Will sacrifice a lesser piece for more powerful. Also will use a sucker move to set up his move
He’s getting help. Suspect he’s not in Hong Kong. May never have been.
I think our good guys finally got sick of our new crazies.
POSHITUS can’t run, or hide.
There was another rumor at the same time. That Carter Ham had not only been relieved of duty, but had been detained.
It's generally a bad idea to ask such a question unless you know the answer will damage the Regime.
General Ham was in command of AFRICOM up through this past April 5, when General David M. Rodriguez took over.
Brian and I were in the same Task Force during Operation Anaconda in 2002. When the TF deactivated he sought me out and thanked me for my efforts in supporting him (amazed me as I considered myself a REMF while he was a front line SEAL).
We spent a lot of the day together and I was impressed with his professionalism. I saw his name several weeks ago in an article and was very pleased he achieved Flag rank.
Ham told Chafetz that he had a unit ready to go,no request was made to move that unit,he decided to move that unit and was relieved of command,Panetta said the Ham ,Dempsey and himself decided NOT to go,someone is not being honest.
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