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.
If she makes a serious run, better buy as much RGR, SWHC, and rounds of ammo as you can possibly afford.
Benghazi ping.
Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.
Butchering *itch of Bengazi.
Piano legs, loads of dough, throngs of popparazzi...
....and a horrible odor emanating from each swish of her pants suit uniform.
Americans in Benghazi attack sent distress calls, pleading for their lives
Please excuse double pings, but this is important.
Thanks, Mesta.
I can hear it now. “They got the help they deserved.”
This is what that meeting with the journolists was about yesterday.
Looks like no one listens to Panetta.
I guess he is the token Italian-American.
Thanks for the pings; post.
TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, representative-enabled, media-complicit, agency-abetted, ongoing…
The evil within.
RIP Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods. Condolences to your families. Condolences to your friends.
Killers/deceivers on the loose BUMP! Benghazi BUMP!
Couldn’t someone release those calls for help.....someone?
Dereliction of Duty File and First Degree Murder File for the 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
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