Is that why the drone was in the area, watching the movement of weapons to Syria?
Odd this all took place on 9/11, isn’t it?
Questions are whether the drone was a strategic or tactical asset, whose tasking was it operating under (there probably is enormous competition among US agencies for these assets so target priorities and operating parameters have to be established by a committee)
Who and where was monitoring its feed? My understanding is that these are CIA assets unless in direct tactical battle support- and maybe even then. It is plausible that Panetta was not involved. After all, Gates possibly was in on the cabal of agency planners that blindsided the WH back when osama was taken out, so keeping the DoD out of this operation, if directed by the WHY, would have been tit for tat.
We have no ongoing hostilities involving DoD battle support in Libya that I am aware of. DoD people were pulled out.
Presumably it was intel collecting - against who and for what?
The inexplicable lying and cover up suggests this operation was all directed from the WH itself. A strategic covert military operation being run by arrogant ardent islamists, such as John Brennan (just sayin’)
I know nothing, only speculating. Nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn Express recently.