The biggest stench is that it is beginning to look like Obama went night-night to rest up for Las Vegas, instead of seeing the crisis through and (had he been awake) sending a rescue mission.
After 6-8 hours in a few “Fort Apaches” with running street battles between, like a mini Blackhawk Down, the living Americans must have been thinking, “Any minute now, here come the helicopters.”
But they didn’t. So even though Delta had forward staged to Sigonella Sicily (rumint) from base in Germany, nobody was willing or able to pull the trigger and send a rescue force. Or even a few F-18 supersonic flybys, to bust windows and warn, “Here comes American airpower, and you camel jockeys know what that means.” Just a a morale booster it would have helped the besieged staffers.
But it was never sent, not even a lousy supersonic low-level flyby.
Here is the deal. The military does a lot on its own, under standing orders and SOPs, the minute they see that the consulate is under attack, and the ambassador and others are in a "safe room" hiding. At that moment, things happen on autopilot in real time. Everybody in the Navy and USAF chain of command swings into a crisis contingency plan mode. What ships are closest? Helicopters? Marines? Delta is in Germany? Get them moving right now. Where is closest? Sigonella, for now. It’s NATO, no permission needed, just fly. En route in C-17s, the Delta guys would even be prepping for an immediate action raid, that is, the C-17 will fly directly to some desert road outside of Benghazi, and here comes “The Raid On Entebbe,” crisis mode, canned actions, but they would do it. If they were ordered to.
Or Marines on amphib ships in the central Med, if any were available, would also be put on the real-time options board.
But while all of that military staging would have happened/did happen, what they cannot do on their own say-so is cross an international border without an order from the NCA, the National Command Authority, and that means POTUS, Obama.
Only POTUS can authorize a cross-border hostile mission. That is, guns clear, no official permission from the Tripoli govt (if it really exiss outside State Dept fantasies.)
Only one man can pull that trigger and say, "GO!" Obama.
(But for America to act "unilaterally" would have meant the bogus Libyan Arab Spring and so-called new govt. that we were propping up didn’t really exist. Libyan sovereignty must be held sacrosanct, even the false image of one, where in reality, Al Queda is top dog. Even when an Al Queda offshoot is your external "security," namely, The 17th of February Martyrs Brigade." (IOW, the White House thought they had a "deal" with AQ in Behghazi, since we were helping to run weaponry from Libya to their pals in Syria. So there was an "institutional bias" at State against crossing the border on a rescue up sin permisso.
Anyway, be that as it may, no General or Admiral will order the Marines ashore, or a Delta raid or even an F-18 low-level supersonic flyby. They can not and will not cross a border without an order from POTUS via the NCA.
But no order came, as of midnight. And then none would come. Because the POTUS retired for the night with a “do not disturb” sign on his door, punted, and went to bed, to be well rested for Las Vegas.
While his ambassador was off the U.S. radar, missing, at that moment possibly being dragged down a Benghazi street or even raped. But that is when Obama went to bed. Midnight in DC is 0600 in Beghazi.
That is the greatest scandal of Benghazi. The POTUS slept through it, while all around the world, military forces were poised for the Raid on Entebbe or any other damn thing the POTUS ordered them to do. (And the were raring to go, believe me.)
But the POTUS said, “We’ll discuss it further in the morning,” and then he went to bed around midnight in DC, 0600 in Benghazi, with a missing ambassador and a crisis in full mega flap process.
He punted. He went to bed.
God help us. I think that’s the big secret they are keeping. The President went to bed, with his lost Ambassador being dragged through streets.
Obama went to bed.
Well said.
This just adds to the low, constant drone of utter loathing I have for this cockroach of a man.
Jarrett probably tucked him in...
This is what America gets as a CIC when the one they elect is not an American, and worse, a Muslim.
I would NEVER serve under such an incompetent foreigner.
Yours is the only scenario that would make the need for a cover-up of what really happened so necessary that the no-one in the administration will admit to the truth.
From the get-go, it made no sense that Obama was not told about the raid on the Consulate, unless there was something that was given a higher priority--and that is a good night's sleep.
If what you surmise is what really went down--may it be 0's last good night sleep for a long time, not just because he knows he could have done something to save 4 men, but because his failure to act cost him the presidency!
Post of the month award. Thanks Travis McGee.
The F-ING MARXIST BASTARD NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED !!!!
I need information ..WHO on our side is perusing this ?
Why is there not press conference after press conference
all week long pounding the White house for information ?
Why can’t we EVER get balls enough to slam the left .
There should be DAILY calls for Obamas head. Can’t one f-ing Republican get on camera and at leas SAY he wants Obama impeacher. At least it would make headline and at LEAST more of America will hear the REAL story
WHO?/Who the hell has balls to bring this to the public in a BIG BIG way ?
The F-ING MARXIST BASTARD NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED !!!!
I need information ..WHO on our side is perusing this ?
Why is there not press conference after press conference
all week long pounding the White house for information ?
Why can’t we EVER get balls enough to slam the left .
There should be DAILY calls for Obamas head. Can’t one f-ing Republican get on camera and at leas SAY he wants Obama impeacher. At least it would make headline and at LEAST more of America will hear the REAL story
WHO?/Who the hell has balls to bring this to the public in a BIG BIG way ?
Good thing President Reagan didn't wait for “permission” when he bombed the hell out of Gadafi’s Compound after Libya was implicated in the Disco Bombing that killed our Troops.
Obama is a Treasonous Bastard and should be held to account.
I don’t think I agree with your assessment in post 16. Don’t get me wrong,...if this was truly a foreign terrorist attack, then it’s correct,...but looking at the evidence before us of the cell phone videos from the area, the timelines, the tactics deployed, the implied logistics, the comments from local politicians,...it strikes me that this was a much more targeted operation.
Ambassador Stevens reportedly escorted the Turkish envoy to the gates of the compound circa 8:30 local time, about 1hr10min-1hr 40min before the first explosions at the gates were heard.
The attackers targeted the Residence.
They later followed the reaction teams to the Annex and conducted some fairly accurate mortar fire after targets shifted at night before they had time for resupply.
I’d say a good number of them were prepositioned and had the compounds under observation continually before the attacks.
They probably saw the Ambassador at the gates escorting the Turks out about 20:00. So why not act then, ...sundown at 18:51, nautical dusk ,..say 19:15, no protests going on. Leads me to give more credence to a coordinated attack.
Initial assaults also had trucks(pickups I imagine) with heavier weapons bringing them in to the area. So they probably had them under observation, then assaulted with the trucks in a coordinated attack.
Local politicians had Libyan security pulled back so as not to incense crowds, then he criticized the guards for shooting when the compound was assaulted. Reads to me as though the local politicians knew the attackers and had experience managing or thinking he was managing their activity within his perceived constraints. When others didn’t follow the same unwritten laws, the local politicians blame those obeying the written laws.
When Clinton was in office, Colby died under mysterious circumstances. Obama and Hillary seem to have penchant for having SEALs take fatal hits under their watch. What did they know and when did they know it?
People do things for reasons. Biden’s little crack remark about Ty Woods having the balls the size of billiard balls or such,...why would he say something like that,....it telegraphs his deeper thinking, it’s like a ‘gotcha comment’, which to the innocent, just doesn’t seem to make sense. To the corrupt mind, such as Biden’s, it manifests a deeper very real, intended meaning. I don’t know what it is, but it doesn’t encourage special trust, faith, nor confidence in the abilities thereof.
I’m not sure it was about Stevens.
The Muslim video thing plays in here, but more in a contrived political science fashion, than any natural consequence. Muslim abhorrence of homosexuality or female governance is just as plausible a justification for militant action as watching a youtube video, and those definitely are never respected by this Administration to allay the ire of militant Muslims.
IMHO, somebody on the inside knew when the SEALs were KIA and the rest were able to then leave without slaughter. IMHO, those attacking the compound were getting briefed on our intel. Why else let anybody live to leave the Annex? Maybe saved by daylight? Stevens found about dawn by friendlies, so somebody was tracking that actively.
Bad guys today, still seem to hide in the dark or being masked by mayhem from others, so they aren’t exposed.
The attackers weren’t good enough to take out their direct target as a coordinated company attack, nor mobbish enough to continue their mayhem. It had to be re-coordinated and controlled by others. Somebody had good enough intel to continually retarget US friendlies, in darkness, after their environment changed and they changed their operations, then ceased operations when the convoy left. If anything, for the Annex assault to have been so successful, they would have followed the convoy to even the airport, even taking out the planes before they could leave.
Just my 2 cents, IMHO,...something stinks here and nobody is following it up. What is interesting, the very same mindsets who like Obama and Hillary are also the very same casualties in this whole affair and they aren’t smart enough to realize it. Meanwhile, it fosters Al Quada and militant Islam jihad.
about your piece, here is my problem...and I need direction here... this factually happened at 9;35 their time or 3: 35 pm out time..
1. is that correct...
2 7 hours into it would be 10:35 pm DC time
3 when and how do we know his bedtime ? PBS membership drive ? go Big Bird Go
nailin down the time line is in fact, this story...well cept for the gun runnin
here is the alternative to Travis McGee ‘s comment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2950490/posts?page=1
so which is it? did Zero go to bed or did he watch live and have an orgasm?
here is the alternative to Travis McGee ‘s comment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2950490/posts?page=1
so which is it? did Zero go to bed or did he watch live and have an orgasm?
marked.