Posted on 01/03/2016 6:12:14 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
An email recently obtained by Judicial Watch shows that the Pentagon was demanding Hillary allow them to send help to Benghazi during the 2012 attack. This would completely contradict the claim from Hillary and Leon Panetta that no forces were available and within reach to provide help to the compound that was under siege.
From Fox News:
As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.
The revelation appears to contradict testimony Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave lawmakers in 2013, when he said there was no time to get forces to the scene in Libya, where four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
“I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton],†reads the email, from Panetta’s chief of staff Jeremy Bash. “After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.â€
The email was sent out at 7:19 p.m. ET on Sept. 11, 2012, in the early stages of the eight-hour siege that also claimed the lives of Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALs, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, private CIA contractors who raced to the aid of embattled State Department workers.
Although the email came after the first wave of the attack at the consulate, it occurred before a mortar strike on the CIA annex killed Woods and Doherty.
“This leaves no doubt military assets were offered and ready to go, and awaiting State Department signoff, which did not come,†Judicial Watch, a nonprofit government watchdog said in a statement.
Parts of the email from Bash were redacted before release, including details on what military forces were available.
But, if you want to know what forces were likely to be available, all you have to do is listen to, or read, the account from an ex Special Forces member who explained it to Bryan Suits on the “Dark Secret Place,†a popular radio show in Los Angeles.
In the interview from November of 2012, he explained why Panetta’s claim was a LIE, and described the CIF which stands for Commanders In extremis Force, that could have been sent to Benghazi:
[The CIF is a] heretofore little known American option…You’ve probably never heard that before. It’s not secret per se, but it’s not publicized very much… the CIF, as it’s called is something that is available to every theater commander.
The CIF are US army special forces soldiers who are specifically dedicated to being prepared at all times for months on end to leave with no notice, with little or no information to move by air or whatever vehicle, to a situation, that they have been determined to be the best immediate solution to. They oftentimes get in the air with absolutely no idea where they’re going or what the mission is. Oftentimes they are briefed in the air.â€
“The entire purpose of this [CIF]… in the extreme, there is no worse case than this. Something is happening right now, and we don’t have 24 hours to get Delta force in there. Something is happening right now, and that’s why these forces, the CIF are pre-positioned… to at the drop of a hat, to go anywhere and do anything.
It’s time to explain what is angering so many people in the special operations community, because they’re aware of the CIF.
He then explained why Panetta was lying about there not being enough time to send them:
The bottom line is this – did the president have an option? He did. What Leon Panetta said about “real-time informationâ€, when Leon Panetta was saying that on Thursday, we know that’s a LIE. Because we’ve known for weeks that there was a predator drone orbiting the Benghazi consulate. Have US forces been sent places with less information? YES. I can personally vouch for being sent places where my initial mission was to find out what was going on.
There’s no such principle that you don’t deploy people without information.
So there it is. Panetta and Hillary LIED to the American public over and over, and the media never pressed them enough to demand answers.
And this information has been available since a MONTH after the attack…
Romney and McLettuce are connected at the hip,McLettuce has more Benghazi stink that a skunk on a skunk
We had choices and chose poorly. Few want to own up to it but we live in the reality of it.
Yes. However it has been a long road with many stages, so grasping what has happened takes more work than many care to admit. The Constitution is as good as any system one might hope for, but a system is still limitted by the goodness of the men involved. I’m not sure anyone could have turned it around after Wilson.
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
Trump is not evil. Romney is.
There are people on FR hoping Trump wins and governs as a dictator. Doesn’t matter if it’s Trump or anyone else. We have so called conservatives that disdain the Constitution and have no desire to keep it, a republic or anything of the sort.
I pinged Catherine of Aragon. She has the thread saved.
Besides being a liar, you are really an arrogant fraud. My failed and destructive choices. LOL.
Yes, you said what was true in a post some time ago -— you just really like to read what you are typing. How self-indulgent you are. You are 100% right? What an ego.
You distract the issue. I did not “put up the guy.” That is a lie. Romney was my next to the last choice, only ahead of Ron Paul.
There is something really wrong with you. I apologize to the FReepers for responding to your nonsense.
Trump has been called “evil” by quite a few so called Conservatives. I don’t see Trump as Conservative. Not by a longshot. He may well be electable beyond my choice, though. Like with Romney, I would have to hold my nose and wear hip waders to punch his card. What 0bamao has done since 2012 is irreversible. What Hildebeast will do will make Oregon look like a picnic.
Calling me a liar requires proof. But as many times as you have called me that, and it has been many, you have yet to show any. we can get into your selective editing of one of my posts though and how you completely changed the context, liberal style by leaviong off one very important detail.
Because you are a fraud. Not me.
The country is in damn bad shape, thanks Trey and the rest of the Rino bastards, well really UNIPARTY bastards!
I don’t want him as President when Cruz is there but I don’t think he’s evil. And as I have said several times in posts, I do think he loves his country.
That said yes, some do think he’s evil. And just as many think Cruz is evil.
There are people on FR hoping Trump wins and governs as a dictator.
I’m not sure that if you had Jefferson as President, Madison as Senate Majority leader, and Monroe as House Speaker things could be salvaged now.
Trump isn’t up to being even one of those three. Cruz might be.
Yup. total agreement.
People make a lot of Trumps Alpha and his skills. Sure, he has them. But people ensured a wall of opposition from the GOP when they had to win with lesser evils that always give Dems what they want. Trump, Cruz, anyone short of Christ is going to be accomplishing a lot less than people hope for because of that.
There are posters who purport to support a candidate while attacking another. In reality their purpose is to make both candidates look bad ( one as the object of their attacks The second by attacking a fellow candidate) thereby they think they are opening a top spot for an establishment candidate which of course must be kept from the true conservatives on this site
So they instigate fights between the two top candidates doing the work of the RNC And DNC Many were once supporters of a candidate known to be backed by establishment
It is possible Trump has "changed". I hope so. However, I do hope Cruz can make his stand and go all the way.
It would be a great question for one of his constituents to put to him.
This ain’t going nowhere that you can be sure of.
This should be a headline story.
Trump may have had a come to Jesus with his past positions. I hope he has. Personally I don’t think we should elect him to see whats in him, to paraphrase the not so great Pelosi. It may be a hard lesson if it goes sideways.
I think Cruz can. But he needs people to stand on principle on his behalf/primary and beyond. And that is in short supply.
She should be put on trial as an accessory to murder.
The really scary part is that somehow they got Gen. Ham to testify to Congress that the request was never made.
And thats why the entire officer class needs to be purged. Barry has corrupted it top to bottom with his liberals.
Ham put his whatever over the truth and his country.
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