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(CNN) Panetta on Benghazi attack: ‘Could not put forces at risk’
CNN ^ | October 26, 2012 | Chris Lawrence
Posted on Friday, October 26, 2012 7:20:01 AM by maggief
The U.S. military did not get involved during the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, last month because officials did not have enough information about what was going on before the attack was over, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Thursday.
At a Pentagon news briefing, Panetta said there was no “real-time information” to be able to act on, even though the U.S. military was prepared to do so.
“You don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on,” Panetta said. “(We) felt we could not put forces at risk in that situation.”
A defense official provided more context on Panetta’s comments about the decision-making involved in not sending U.S. troops to the consulate being attacked in Benghazi.
He said there was a drone aloft but not directly over the area at the time the attack began.
He said the drone was redirected and arrived in time to record some of the attack. But he described what the drone saw as “looking down, seeing a bunch of buildings and fires, a lot of chaos on the ground.”
He said it was not enough to discern exactly what was happening.
“We didn’t have good eyes on the situation. There were security forces there on the ground, but they’re in the middle of a firefight - not sending a Sitrep (Situational Report).
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(CNN) Panetta on Benghazi attack: ‘Could not put forces at risk’
CNN ^ | October 26, 2012 | Chris Lawrence
Posted on Friday, October 26, 2012 7:20:01 AM by maggief
The U.S. military did not get involved during the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, last month because officials did not have enough information about what was going on before the attack was over, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Thursday.
At a Pentagon news briefing, Panetta said there was no “real-time information” to be able to act on, even though the U.S. military was prepared to do so.
“You don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on,” Panetta said. “(We) felt we could not put forces at risk in that situation.”
A defense official provided more context on Panetta’s comments about the decision-making involved in not sending U.S. troops to the consulate being attacked in Benghazi.
He said there was a drone aloft but not directly over the area at the time the attack began.
He said the drone was redirected and arrived in time to record some of the attack. But he described what the drone saw as “looking down, seeing a bunch of buildings and fires, a lot of chaos on the ground.”
He said it was not enough to discern exactly what was happening.
“We didn’t have good eyes on the situation. There were security forces there on the ground, but they’re in the middle of a firefight - not sending a Sitrep (Situational Report).
(Excerpt) Read more at
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/26/panetta-on-benghazi-attack-could-not-put-forces-at-risk/
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Where are the Communications from Ambassador Stevens During the Attack?
Vanity | 25 October, 2012 | marktwain
Posted on Friday, October 26, 2012 8:17:49 AM by marktwain
Where are the communications that were sent from the mission in Benghazi just before and during the attack? Are we to believe that Ambassador Stevens and his highly trained men never let anyone know what was going on, or asked for help?
It is hard for me to believe that there was a live feed of the attack back to the situation room of the White House, but that there was no information sent by the people who were under attack, and that there were no requests from them.
What did they say? What did they ask? What were they denied?
Are we to believe that Ambassador Stevens and the other defenders did not even have a cell phone? Are we to believe that the defenders held out for six or seven hours, and never asked for reinforcements or assistance?
What did they ask for, and what were they told?
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