Posted on 11/23/2013 4:26:13 AM PST by IbJensen
Clockwise from top left: Ambassador Christopher Stevens; Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith; former Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Rest in Peace
This makes me weep . . . .
Americans trapped in Benghazi that awful night of Sept. 11, 2012, were pleading for their lives — for someone to rescue them.
But their Commander In Chief was thousands of miles away that night in the White House and disappeared for hours – hours about which the White House refuses to account. Their Commander In Chief was so blasé, he actually went to bed and slept, then hopped onto Air Force One the next day to fly to Las Vegas for a fundraiser.
Later that month, in an interview, their Commander In Chief airily dismissed their deaths as mere “bumps on the road“. Later still, when she was hauled before a Congressional hearing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, too, dismissed their deaths with the quip, “What does it matter?”
See also “Former Ambassador: Benghazi “Stand Down” Order Came from Obama,” July 31, 2013; “Obama thinks 4 Americans being killed in Benghazi is funny,” Jan. 28, 2013..
~Eowyn
Catherine Herridge reports for Fox News, Nov. 20, 2013:
State Department employees at the Benghazi compound knew they were in a death trap and made a series of radio distress calls to the CIA annex during the terror assault last year, according to congressional sources familiar with recent testimony on the attack from five CIA personnel.
Sources told Fox News that the radio calls, which were described in closed testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, were characterized as almost frantic, with State Department employees who knew they could not defend themselves “pleading” for their lives.
When the CIA team arrived from the annex about a mile away, they found the State Department employees without guns that could adequately protect them; one of the agents was found hiding in the consulate, apparently in a closet. The testimony lends more weight to repeated claims, in the wake of the attack, thatthe consulate was not adequately protected despite being located in a volatile and violent area prone to attack.
When the CIA personnel were asked for their reaction to the administration’s initial explanation that an anti-Islam video and a demonstration gone awry were to blame for the attack, Fox News is told they were seething with anger because everything on the ground — from their perspective — showed it was a premeditated attack.
At least three of the five — who were all in Benghazi — responded to the scene that night. The witnesses testified that five mortars rained down on the annex in less than a minute. They pointed to those details as more evidence of a professionally trained team, describing the attack on the annex as akin to a professional hit on the operation in order to drive it out of Benghazi.
Congressional sources say the testimony seems to further conflict with and undercut the briefing three days after the attack by then-CIA Director David Petraeus, who likened the attack to a flash mob.When pressed on the number and precision of the mortars, Petraeus offered that Benghazi was flooded with mortars, and played down their accuracy by suggesting they could have been fired from the back of a pick-up truck.
When Petraeus appeared on the Hill in November, following his resignation from the CIA over his admitted affair, he tried to claim that he knew it was a terrorist attack all along and insisted that he did not put the emphasis on the anti-Islam film.
The scumbag in the Kikuyu White Hut , and Hillary, will never have to worry about suffering a torturous death that they dealt to our Navy Seals and Ambassador in Benghazi. I believe Hillary Clinton should be immediately burned at the stake for witchcraft before people start forgetting her treachery. She and the pervert she's wedded to INO are used to dealing death out to others.
Too damned many 'Americans' will vote for the Benghazi and Kosovo -itch (W or B works) Hillary in the next election in 2016. We need to keep her name viral to keep her out of office.
We must never forget “We will find out the truth.” Those responsible for this cowardly treachery must never be forgotten for the dishonoring this declining nation. Hang your heads low you traitors!
Thank you for that lovely image on this fine morning!
Mmmm...picturing it now - hit her again - harder! HARDER!!
It’s a hard lesson, but 0 and hil hate this country and love jihadis.
“What difference does it make?” The corrupt shrew, who lied with Obama in front of the four caskets of those they allowed to be killed, wants to be the first woman president.
I THINK THAT THEY JUST HATE THIS COUNTRY!
This is a Threat Matrix list documenting threats within and without. Anyone wanting on or off please advise.
This is the Benghazi Index for reference.
"What difference does it make?"
“What difference does it make?” The corrupt shrew, who lied with Obama in front of the four caskets of those they allowed to be killed, wants to be the first woman president.”
And she will be, make no mistake about it.
I wonder how America would react if the recordings of those pleas for help were made public? Just saying ...... it will never happen, but it might shake some people up who need to come to their senses and hold Obummer/Hillary accountable for leaving Americans to die. Might make a difference to some people if they realize this regime is now in charge of their healthcare and they also will be left to DIE as a result of Obamacare right here on these shores, don’t have to be under fire in a foreign country ... while the occupant of the White Hut lies every time his lips move, campaigns, parties, generally destroys the country, and doesn’t lose a minute’s sleep over what he’s doing.
Dr. Eowyn,
When talking about the response, it should be noted:
Initial phone call to Washington, approx 3:40pm:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/10/198791.htm
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL:“...I neglected to mention from the top that that agent from the top of this incident, or the very beginning of this incident, has been on the phone. He had called the quick reaction security team, he had called the Libyan authorities, he had called the Embassy in Tripoli, and he had called Washington.”
TRANSCRIPT: Presidential debate on foreign policy at Lynn University
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/22/transcript-presidential-debate-on-foreign-policy-at-lynn-university/
“Now with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way;”
US Benghazi Hero Waited 20 Hours For Help With a Shredded Leg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3048007/posts
Diplomatic security agent David Ubben, like former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, ran into the Special Mission Compound (SMC) to help save US officials under siege in Benghazi. Ubben was struck by a mortar round that killed Woods and Doherty. His leg was shredded. Ubben was forced to wait twenty hours before a plane was sent to pick him up.
The butcher of Benghazi!
The Butchering *itch Of Benghazi"
This is the one hour and 18 minutes before the meeting:
(3:42 Washington—Initial call) 9:42 p.m. — Armed men begin their assault on the U.S. Consulate.
(5:00 Washington) 11 p.m. — Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey meet with President Obama at the White House where they discuss the unfolding situation and how to respond.
Pentagon releases official timeline of Benghazi attack
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/world/africa/libya-benghazi-timeline/index.html
September 11 (Events are listed using the time in Benghazi)
9:42 p.m. — Armed men begin their assault on the U.S. Consulate.
9:59 p.m. — A surveillance drone is directed to fly over the U.S. compound, but it is unarmed.
10:32 p.m. — The Office of the Secretary Defense and the Joint Staff are notified of the attack by the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon. “The information is quickly passed to Secretary Panetta and General Dempsey.”
11 p.m. — Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey meet with President Obama at the White House where they discuss the unfolding situation and how to respond. The meeting had been previously scheduled.
11:10 p.m. — The surveillance drone arrives over the Benghazi facility.
11:30 p.m. — All surviving U.S. personnel are evacuated from the consulate. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and State Department computer expert Sean Smith were killed in the initial assault.
September 12
Midnight to 2 a.m. — Panetta and other senior leaders discuss possible options for further violence if it were to break out. Panetta gives verbal orders for Marine anti-terrorist teams from Rota, Spain, to prepare to deploy to Tripoli and Benghazi. Panetta also orders a special operations force team training in Croatia and an additional special operations force team in the United States to prepare to deploy to a staging base in southern Italy.
This is “Thirty minutes later the president was directing the Pentagon to do all it could”.
After the 5pm meeting started, this is 1 hour and 48 minutes after the “Initial phone call to Washington”:
According to the timeline Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were told of the attack about an hour after it started, as both men were on their way to the White House for an already scheduled meeting with President Barack Obama. Thirty minutes later the president was directing the Pentagon to do all it could to assist, according to senior Pentagon officials.
The question is, Putting the previous post together, who dropped the ball when it comes to the response?
There is on hour and 48 minutes difference between [3:42pm] “Initial phone call to Washington” and during the meeting [5:30pm] “Thirty minutes later the president was directing the Pentagon to do all it could”.
We had drones over Benghazi. We had a plane with reinforcements that flew from Tripoli to Benghazi without being fired upon. We had paid, armed protection forces in Benghazi. We had about 40 CIA employees at the CIA Annex. I’ve never been in the CIA, but how can you have CIA employees in a place as hostile as Benghazi without weapons? If there were 40 CIA employees at the CIA facility, you would think the place would look like Fort Apache with everyone running around with an automatic rifle and a grenade launcher. They had to bring in people from Tripoli who were armed and knew to get on the roof to get good fields of fire? FREE THE BENGHAZI 40!!!!! We need to hear from them.
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