Posted on 10/26/2012 6:30:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BOMBSHELL: US troops in Benghazi would not have been painting targets on the ground unless there was air support overhead. But someone called it off – And the decision most likely came from the White House.
FOX News reported earlier today that security officers on the ground in Benghazi had a laser planted on a target that was firing on the annex.
The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights.
So there were two drones in the air recording the attack on the ground. And now we know the CIA team at the annex was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. The White House was able to watch the attack live back in Washington DC. Yet, yesterday Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said this,
“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.”
How much more information did they need?
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Then there’s this bombshell at BlackFive from a former Delta operator:
Having spent a good bit of time nursing a GLD (ground Laser Designator) in several garden spots around the world, something from the report jumped out at me.
One of the former SEALs was actively painting the target. That means that Specter WAS ON STATION! Probably an AC130U. A ground laser designator is not a briefing pointer laser. You do not “paint” a target until the weapons system/designator is synched; which means that the AC130 was on station.
Only two places could have called off the attack at that point; the WH situation command (based on POTUS direction) or AFRICOM commander based on information directly from the target area.
If the AC130 never left Sigonella (as Penetta says) that means that the Predator that was filming the whole thing was armed.
If that SEAL was actively “painting” a target; something was on station to engage! And the decision to stand down goes directly to POTUS!
This is HUGE. It should be obvious by now that someone is not telling the truth. As Blackfive says,
“This is bigger than Watergate!… The worst has to be the team on the ground knowing that the President just left you to die.“
A caller today discussed this with Rush Limbaugh.
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Here is part of that conversation.
CALLER: Well, there’s three networks, Rush. The e-mails that have been released are unclassified e-mails. On the top secret side, a flash traffic message from the embassy Tripoli to the White House Situation Room, it’s like an IM. I mean, it’s immediately responded to. You have to acknowledge receipt of it. Okay? So it’s immediate. It gets to the person, the watch officer sitting there, boom, flashes on his screen, he has to acknowledge receipt. And then there’s a protocol for who he then sends it to. He physically turns to someone, the senior guy on watch, “This is a critical element of information. POTUS needs to hear this,” and that’s what would have happened.
So no one in the White House can deny that — well, they can deny it, but the fact is the protocol says someone marched their happy little ass up to the senior guy standing next to POTUS and said, “Sir, ambassador in Libya is in peril.” And if he was missing, that is even a higher precedence. And then the chain would have also gone out automatically to the geographic combatant commander, AFRICOM, and he would have then turned to his special operations commander and said, “I want the In-Extremis Force, you know, strip ready in five minutes.” And evidently they were strip ready in Sigonella and they would have the assets to penetrate the airspace, you know, an MC-130 papa, which is a C-130 specially equipped with electronic countermeasures. They didn’t need permission to enter Libyan airspace, okay?
I’m giving you a lot of Inside Baseball stuff, and maybe putting myself in a little peril by doing it, but the In-Extremis Force, they would have been chomping at the bit to do this. It was turned down, POTUS, at his five p.m. Eastern time meeting with the principals, that’s when he put the kibosh on everything. It was a conscious act. It has to be because, you know, the In-Extremis Force is required to be prepared to do In-Extremis non-combatant evacuation operations for its geographic responsibility, the entire continent of Africa. So there’s always somebody ready to go, and the aircraft are always prepared to go.
Read the rest here. Hat Tip Truth and Common Sense
Amen. Let it be so.
Yep.
5.56mm
How does somebody below you in position/authority “relieve” you of your duties on the spot?
I’ve read that the one chosen to replace Ham has to receive Senate confirmation. So somebody has had to temporarily fill in for the interim. If that interim started when this subordinate in effect fired Ham, I would presume the only person in place to take over would be that subordinate who did the “firing”. Whether any of that could legally be done in 30 seconds to a minute is another question.
They might want to be careful how they answer the question of legality though, because if an emergency, critical issue is grounds for sudden removal from office without regard to normal due process, then Obama better be prepared to be carted away...
You're reading this wrong.
Workplace violence does not equal terrorism
Protests against a video does not equal terrorism.
Both of these statements are idiotic but they are official US policy.
WHY?
The simple answer is: Hussein Obama is not working for us, he is working for them.
In other words, Hussein does not want the little people like you upset about his peaceful Muslim friends being just a little too impatient. After Hussein is re-elected, he will take the gloves off. And he will then not care what you think.
You might if you've got nothing else. If I had a laser painted on me, I wouldn't stay still. The guys in the annex might have been hoping that the enemy would believe they're toast if they stay in that spot and split.
The removal of security in response to a 40-foot hole being blown in the wall of the consulate, and the immediate knowledge of this practically unviewed video suggest that the Obama regime didn’t just react to this attack but may have helped plan it.
If that is true it would explain why the target was painted. I wonder what the source is for that claim.
If he gets himself arrested, he may have the turnout he wants.
Would the target know they were painted?
Are any news outlets standing by the sodomy story? I was challenged at work this week on the rape & sodomy and found myself unable to substantiate that claim....
Sort of like Matilda saying she didn’t do it, when she used her powers on Miss Trunchbull the first time.
I thought the same thing.
My computer doesn’t let me see video so I haven’t been able to see the timeline video. Was there some apology that was put out on the day of the attack but before the attack happened? And how quickly was that apology video aired? I know Romney got raked over the coals because he very quickly said that apologizing was the wrong response. How quickly did those apologies come?
If the military gets a common understanding that the POTUS is ordering them to die in battle by the denial of support then is it just a matter of time until a civil war is triggered? How long until mass example of Gen Ham and to the point where the US military fractures and things might start from there?
Of course there is if you are generating a target list for when the air 30 min away arrives. It is coming.....isn't it.
And that is the worst of it, not just being in the shit, but knowing higher knows you're in it, but has decided not to respond, so your death is only a matter of time because of betrayal.
Let Obama go down with his own ship, no use in Mitt jumping on the deck and pointing fingers just before the ship is pulled below water.
He is wise to let this bombshell explode without him setting the charge.
This infuriates me! I’ve been raving about it since I heard the guy on Rush’s show yesterday. They let Americans die and are STILL lying about it!
Damn them!
Exactly. It wasn’t held to the four who were massacred, there were somewhere between 20 and 30 survivors—thanks to those SEALS that rescued them!
This administration was willing to let all of them die. I just can’t wrap my head around ANY of this!
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Dead people tell no tales.....IMO, O was hoping for no survivors.
“Here’s the thing, that after all this no American soldier can in good conscience vote for Obama because...]
Because their votes are being tampered with! It’s my understanding that many military ballots from Afghanistan went down in a fiery plane crash:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/26/absentee-ballots-destroyed-in-crash
But then here in Ohio, they are bussing in large groups of Somalis to vote:
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/26/is-voter-fraud-being-committed-in-ohio/
Their contempt for our country is so blatant that it is barely comprehensible.
Legally, no one. The Constitution has a political remedy for this, unfortunately it will be a couple of months before he is replaced.
I read somewhere that there were two predators and the article said one of them was unarmed. I wonder who owned the assets; were these CIA drones?
That said; seeing a missile come from the sky to destroy their fixed position would have sent the bad guys scurrying away like cockroaches.
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