Thanks Sun House for this and the other quote and link.
I just never saw definitively that there was a “go” order. The mush cited from O is loose enough to cut either way, like most if his drivel. He could spin it to mean he did, or that he did not, order a counterattack, depending on the outcome.
Similar to the Osama Bin Laden raid, he had deniability, he failed to give the “go” order several times, and probably on several different dates and occasions, it is said that Hillary actually said “go”, after ValJar said “no” a number of time.
The smarmy little Ba$turd always “decides” things like that. Not an ounce of courage or “do right” in his scrawny body.
2 things -1. an admission he is aware of the 3:40pm phone call, “when we received that phone call”
-2. and the claim “I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans”
Now, either he gave the order and the subordinates didn’t act, or the subordinates never got the order.
Panetta should be able to answer that, he should have been updated at that 5pm meeting, Candy Crowley will be right on that.../sarc