Posted on 07/12/2014 8:50:57 AM PDT by PoloSec
One by one, behind closed doors in Washington, D.C.,, military officers explained what they did and didn't do the night the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, burned.
Together their 30 hours of testimony to congressional investigators gives the fullest account yet of the military's response to the surprise attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans the night of Sept. 11, 2012, and early the next morning.
Transcripts of the interviews, with some names and classified information blacked out, were released Wednesday
The nine officers, including retired Gen. Carter Ham, then the head of the military's U.S. Africa Command, described making on-the-fly decisions with only sparse information about the crisis unfolding at a diplomatic post and the nearby CIA compound.
None of them was in Benghazi. The closest? Some were 600 miles away in Tripoli, the Libyan capital; others gave orders from command headquarters in Germany or Washington.
They did not witness what went on in the White House or at the State Department. Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have testified about Benghazi. More hearings are coming.
The nine officers shed light on the nature of the attacks; speculation that the military was ordered to "stand down" from helping Americans; suggestions that the U.S. should have rushed jets or a special operations team to Benghazi; and early misperceptions that the attack began as a protest over an anti-Islam video.
Some lingering questions about the Benghazi attacks and what the officers told the House Armed Services Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this year:
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Obama tried to get Hillary to do the talk shows the following Sunday. Apparently Hillary almost agreed but Bill talked her out of it.
I agree 100% with your post.
Welcome aboard.
GO GOWDY!
You can’t expect military brass to merely inconvenience themselves over a few perks, much less their lives. And to an even lesser degree, politicians. It is the job of young military recruits to put their lives on the line. It is the job of military brass and politicians to praise them for doing it.
Rick Perry, military brass, citizens, dads, Hollywood writers take notice, young recruits and all Americans are running out of role ideals
AND, more CORRECTLY......WHAT was three dozens+ gagged CIAs doing in Benghazi tooooo??? That’s the HOT potato not asked!!!
I heard a congressman on the radio say that there IS a video and that he had seen a small part of it but not the whole thing.....yet.
IF the top brass was NOT told to ‘stand down’ they need to resign. Really, why put up with the costs of having a military if they can’t respond to something this simple.
HA!
The look on that second drummer’s face as he spies the flag.
and that second drummers part of the original image ..and was not altered to have that expression ...oddly enough.
“Obama to capture the Ambassador and trade him for (Guantanamo prisoners? The blind sheikh?) in order to look heroic.”
You know, evidence for the theory that it was a botched prisoner swap could be the way that the admin acted with the Bergdahl exchange.
Obama acted like he was being a hero is doing the exchange, as if it was rehearsed.
Nobody celebrated for the idiotic exchange of a traitor for five top Taliban generals. But, you can imagine that people would celebrate if a group of captured Benghazi personnel including Stevens was “saved” by Obama.
Maybe Berdahl was the back up plan?
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