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BOMBSHELL: US Troops Wouldn't Have Been Painting Targets on Ground Unless There Was Air Support..
Gateway Pundit ^ | October 26, 2012 | Jim Hoft

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?

* * * * *

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdication; benghazi; benghazigate; cas; derelictionofduty; libya; muslimbrotherhood; obama; obama4alqaeda; obama4terrorists; obamaabdication; obamatreason; obamavsamerica; shadowwars; standdown; threatmatrix; traitorinchief; treason; waronterror
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To: butterdezillion

We will follow it in the end. Many of us might die in our fight to protect it, but it may have to be. I believe there are millions of armed Americans (thanks to the Second Amendment)that will come out when and if the time comes.


361 posted on 11/02/2012 11:20:57 AM PDT by Two Thirds Vote Aye (I was saying 'I hope he fails' before Rush was.)
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To: shmuckshmuck
I wish we could be together for the collapse, it is going to be a rough ride.

You chose to run away. And to threaten and blackmail me to do it.
362 posted on 11/03/2012 2:21:12 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: shmuckshmuck

Talk about adding insult to injury...


363 posted on 11/04/2012 8:43:21 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: CottonBall

Talk about a stressful day. How could the election be this close? I hope and pray for a Romney landslide. I’ll be thinking of you and your thousand pairs of tennis shoes:)
Been to the $20. store lately. Oh how I miss you.


364 posted on 11/06/2012 4:45:57 AM PST by shmuckshmuck (God Help Us)
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To: CottonBall

This is the day, That many a soldier has died for.
God Bless The United States of Americs.


365 posted on 11/06/2012 5:34:25 AM PST by shmuckshmuck (God Help Us)
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To: shmuckshmuck

This could turn out to be a huge day for me. ONLY IF ROMNEY WINS. It’s official, I am once again a property owner! All thanks to HF. I am on my way little steps at a time. Sweetheart, you are in every prayer and every decision I make. All I want is to make amends and to live my life completely devoted to you. Even if it is to never be I must and am living as if it could someday. I hope you understand.

ok, please be gentle with Cooper while playing with the laser pointers, he may run into walls. Love You


366 posted on 11/06/2012 9:58:16 AM PST by shmuckshmuck (God Help Us)
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To: CottonBall

I bought a pint of ice cream to celebrate with. I am to sick to my stomach to eat it. I think i might never eat ice cream again. I am sick and feel like crying. My country is lost, may we some how find it again someday. Oh Sweetheart, how the hell could we have so many fools in this country. I wish i could talk to you and I wish I was with you. At least I have a path and a plan and will move forward and obviously prepare for the hell that is about to fall upon my country and the world. Benjamin Netanyahu Must be worried. All My Love


367 posted on 11/06/2012 11:43:29 PM PST by shmuckshmuck (God Help Us)
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To: CottonBall

May I PLEASE have permission to email to Cooper. I have something to ask. Your thoughts and permission would be needed. God Help Us All Now


368 posted on 11/07/2012 6:38:31 AM PST by shmuckshmuck (God Help Us)
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To: shmuckshmuck

sure. thanks for asking.


369 posted on 11/07/2012 8:59:37 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obamacide


370 posted on 11/07/2012 9:03:15 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: CottonBall

OMG was it called Prop-30 in Cali that passed? And now you have a super majority in the house and senate, good luck in Cali. run away-run away-run away, go to Camelot find the nights that say Nigh-nigh-nigh


371 posted on 11/08/2012 11:02:59 AM PST by shmuckshmuck (God Help Us)
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To: CottonBall

Cooper3 has mail


372 posted on 11/10/2012 6:46:26 AM PST by shmuckshmuck (God Help Us)
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