[rawcatslyentist]

>"it will take more investigations to determine who gave the order to "stand down," and why. "

Valerie Jarrett, she's a mooseSlime!

[jazusamo]

I agree.

[Yosemitest]

Read this.

TAPE OF MR. HICKs DEPOSITION TO CONGRESS PLAYS:
Mr. Hicks, how did the personnel act to being told to "Stand down" ?

Mr. Hicks: They were furious.


Huckabee: Back with General and Mr. Chistian Whiton, former State Department Official,
General, they were told to "Stand down". They were told not to go in .
I want you to describe "WHO has the authority, to tell that … uh … contingent … to "Stand down" ?
And HOW high up is that order likely to have come from?

Lt. Gen. Boykin: Well, that's WHY we need more hearings, Governor.
First of all, to the order to actually engage troops in a rescue operation, has to come from the President,
unless it's a military facility, and then the Commander has certain authority.
But it has to come from the President, to put troops in harm's way.
Now in that case, ah because we don't know enough of the details, that could have come from the Commander of the Africa Command, that told them to "Stand Down".
But play that all the way out.
WHO told him "Not to allow them to" ?
This hearing, and I applaud Mr. Issa, but this hearing has left us with an awful lot of questions that have to be answered in subsequent hearings.
Because the question you asked IS A QUESTION that needs to be answered by a responsible people.


Huckabee: And Christian, if these request were coming OUT OF Benghazi, and also out of Tripoli, because that's where Mr. Hicks was saying, you know, "We want to go."
Ah, his response was that personnel there wanted to be turned loose to respond and do what they could.
And when they were told they could not, they were furious.
Does that sort of indicate what your experience was with people who are career born service people,
that … when it comes down to it, that they are Americans First, and their ideology goes out the window.


Christian Whiton: Well I think, certainly, and if you look at some of the comments, some of the military folks,
the CIA folks were highly impressed with the diplomats were willing to take risk to help rescue, or at least tend to their comrades.
So this really was shocking, and you know, where did it come from?
If you look back at the White House in particular,
Denis McDonough is now the White House Chief of Staff, was at that time, the Deputy of National Security Counsel,
pulled together a meeting along with Ben Rhodes [Benjamin J. Rhodes] and others,
which is probably where this, where, uh,
you know, I think we don't have the proof yet, but we need to get it,
but where some of these very bad and dangerous decisions were made, and where the coverup really had its genesis.

Huckabee: And we don't know where the President really was.
He had one phone call that night, but otherwise, no photos of him in the Situation Room, no indication,
no uh, even a White House Official coming and saying that the President is monitoring this from the Situation Room, or from the Oval Office, or even from the Residence.
We have no ideal what his engagement and involvement was.

Now General, a lot of accusations have come from Democrats saying that this is all about politics, just to embarrass the President.
You're a military guy, and you lead an effort … 700 Special Forces people to sign a letter.
Was that a political statement on your part and those of the 700 Special Forces individuals?

Lt. Gen. Boykin: No Governor. It wasn't.
Um, these people are people who have spent their military careers preparing for and launching operations to rescue Americans, or to recover their bodies.
Ah, it only took us a few days to get those 700 retired and operative Special Forces people, because their passion runs deep.
There is NO WAY that we could have watched 4 diplomats die, without launching a military attack, unless something broke down in the system,
and I think what we will find ultimately is, that the decision making system broke down.
But we feel passionately about it, and we don't care about the memo that was changed.
We don't care about what Susan Rice said.
What we care about is "WHY did we leave 4 Americans on their own?" because there's a message to every man, woman, in the future that we put on in harm's way, that if you get int a tight spot, we're not going to come and get you.
And remember this, William Tecumseh Sherman said to Ulysses S. Grant in a letter in 1864,
"I knew where ever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight spot, you would come, if alive."
That's a national ethos.

Huckabee: I understand that there's a lot of anger within the military and within the Intelligence Community, feeling like they had in essence been blamed for everything for the rewriting of the memos.
Does this mean that at some point, these folks are going to break their silence, come forward, and start telling the story,
because they want to preserve their honor, and their dignity, and especially I think, these CIA guys, who I respect so much, because they … they put their lives on the line.
They risk everything, and they don't get the opportunity to go home and tell their families what they've done for America, today.
And they're being blamed for all of this.
Will some of them start breaking and telling their stories?

Lt. Gen. Boykin: I think the next set of hearings need to start bringing in several set of people, the military people as well, and some of the CIA people, and ask these questions as you asked.
You see, I have spent 2 years at the CIA. I'm tired of seeing the CIA get beat up.
They seem to be the whipping boy in this, because they live under such a cloud of secrecy that … you can't know what's going on there.
But these are good people. They're honorable people.
The CIA would never would have left those people behind.
I … I know them too well.
But there's got to be more hearings, and we're calling for a bi-partisan commission with subpoena power, to bring in these military and CIA people, and get to the bottom of this.

Huckabee: Well I hope it happens.
General, thank you very much for your prospective.
Christiasn, for your's, both of you having first hand knowledge of what happens behind the scene.

(Applause)