Posted on 05/02/2014 7:28:06 AM PDT by mojito
BRET BAIER: People on the ground testified that they knew where the ambassador was, that they were military in their precision. It was not guys coming to protest. They had mortars and heavy weapons.
TOMMY VIETOR: Bret, a couple of things. I was in the Situation Room that night, okay. We didn't know where the ambassador was definitively.
BAIER: Was the president in the Situation Room?
VIETOR: No. And the fact that your network at one time reported that he watched video feed of the attack as it was ongoing is part of what I think is a pattern of inaccurate --
BAIER: Where was the president?
VIETOR: In the White House. Let me finish my initial statement. The notion that we could, you know, divine motives from a drone feed I think is wrong. And I also think this idea that the military had the capability to rescue those individuals but chose not to is I think extremely unfair to the military. And Admiral Mullen said basically the opposite.
BAIER: In the ARB report.
VIETOR: Right.
BAIER: Where was the president?
VIETOR: In the White House.
BAIER: He wasn't in the Situation Room?
VIETOR: At what point in the evening?
BAIER: Any point in the evening.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
he went to be bed after he was told of what was going on
THERE IS A REASON WHY OBAMA”S PREESENCE was important.
US Policy treated Libya as a sovereign nation.
Only the president could authorize US military force
for the rescue of Benghazi because of the sovereign Libya status.
And the president absented himself so he would not have top make that order so close to his “re-election.” Simply because it would be an admission of failure of his poilicies.As a result 4 good men died to get Obama “re-elect6ed.” Hardly a fair trade of lives.
I believe that would be a “de-briefing”
I believe so.
The CinC was AWOL, and Americans died.
Why? Couldn't be because of all 0bama's campaign hype (i.e. GM's alive Osama is dead, al-Queda on the run...). Sure, he's a narcissist with a state controlled media, but that wouldn't have caused all of them to lie.
Only conclusion I can come to is the 0bama regime was running guns through TU to al-Queda in Syria. That my friends is an impeachable offense. Don't believe me? Just ask all the democRATS during Iran-Contra...
5.56mm
Reggie was in Barry?
Needed to be rested the next morning for his patented campaign-appearance "Obama frisky jog" down the Air Force One steps.
Not me. I think he was under the bed. Next to Hillary.
When a time sensitive situation like this occurs the decision maker (Read POTUS) must be available to give the order to go no go. In this case, the CDRAFRICOM could just stand by, continue to evaluate the situation, take necessary steps to have one or more of his component forces ready to launch or already enroute, and pray that Obama might take a decision on his way to Las Vegas or wherever the hell he was that night.
Air Force One has all the comms necessary to VTC with the Regional Combatant CDR, (Read: CDRAFRICOM) be briefed on a recommended COA, and (oh my God!!!!!)actually make a decision.
FLAG ..... pleonasm, fifteen yards. </off Bill Buckley>
What no one seems to have considered is this-
If Obama HAD BEEN in the situation room, it is likely that instead of 4 dead, there would have been about 30 dead.
I had to look up “pleonasm”.
God,I miss Buckley.
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Can you imagine Chairman Bill shredding one of Obama’s punks ....? Or better, the Punk in Chief hisself?
packing?
Oh... must... resist... Reggie Love... comment...
One thing has puzzled me about that photo in the Situation Room. Beside Ø looking slightly out of proportion to the others, why was he NOT at the head of the table instead of that general? Isn’t that seat for the CinC? One reason is that the general was doing something Ø couldn’t do, which isn’t a stretch given Ø can’t do anything. I just hope and pray that Gowdy doen’t go soft on this. He needs to go after all concerned like a super hungry pit bull going after a steak.
So, if he wasn't in the situation room during any of the attack, when was he ever in the situation room? Didn't he leave to play golf the next morning?
My eyes!
What is seen cannot be unseen.
LOL!
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