Yes, in the case of Benghazi he claims when the call came in he immediately gave the order to do everything possible, yet we know it was a half-hour into the 5 o’clock meeting with Panetta before they decided which option to pursue, which is 1 hour and 40 minutes after what must have been a frantic call to Washington from a guard who had seen the attackers breaching the compound with machine guns. Just what before and after that meeting was going on? And why couldn’t Panetta get any results to assist after the decision was made?
I know it sounds like tin-foil-on-head type thing, but what else explains the stand down orders and the basic air of neglect in DC that night—??
The thing went bad when a second, more bloodthirsty group of jihadis got into the act and killed Stevens. This happened in the past when al Qaeda ops were undercut by yet-more crazy terror groups. If you ever read up on WHY bin Laden refused an al Qaeda franchise to groups like GIA in Algeria you can get the gist of how the Benghazi kidnapping turned into a complete fiasco.
I’m not often comfortable in a tin foil hat but I’m wearing this one until otherwise notified.
Benghazi gets tougher to follow the more we learn.
Here is part of a post I made over at Hot Air earlier. There is so much going on with that story its difficult to say with any precision what did actually happen. All you can do is recite much of what you read and then put down what seems to make sense.
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“The big question besides where was zero and what was he doing with whom when all this went down is who actually hired Ansar al Sharia to do the dirty work and why.
Initially, it was thought that Ansar al Sharia was hired by Morsi(remember the story of don’t shoot us Dr.Morsi sent us) under the direction of zero (who bribed Morsi with 8 billion of our bucks and now owns lock, stock, etc.) to trade the blind sheik for Stevens.
It all went wrong and supposedly Stevens died from smoke inhalation.
There’s a wide variety of stories about how he died from hot shots to a sodomized body to who knows.And no no one will know since his body, as that of Breitbart/Hastings, were all burnt up and turned into ashes that don’t tell us any stories. A pattern begins to emerge.
One of the questions is if Stevens was given a lethal injection in several places of his body that an autopsy couldn’t pickup who did it and why.It’s not terror type style but sure could be covert op style,if you get my drift.And recently we learned that there were 35 CIA types at Benghazi during the raid sooooo…..
Recently, its been suggested that Iran,Russia and Syria were behind Benghazi to stem the shipping of arms that was going on there.
If I had the money I would hire a true journalist to get to the bottom of what really happened.”
rodguy911 on August 4, 2013 at 10:23 AM
MOre “conservative” than tin foil Bob.
It’s best to know the chain of custody of the Benghazi phone call information and just exactly what they are doing. The Situation room receiving a frantic call from a guard who seen the attackers breaching the compound with machine guns and the claim of doing something ‘immediately’ diverge. Why is there any delay in the response? And who is responsible for that delay?
We’ve got a bunch of idiot media who can’t figure out to ask, the phone call comes in at 3:42, and yet Panetta has no idea what he is supposed to do until 5:30? Who sat on that info and did nothing for that long?