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…
Again “we-? “ continue to vote the same incompetent POS into office.
Bushs, Clintons, Gowdy, Cruz, Rubio, Smiths and Jones, etc, etc!
I have seen the Light and will not vote for any Incumbent again!
They all, without exception, are part of the problem.
If the USA were a public corporation would you place any of these people in as the CEO?
Like Hell, you would!
Not personally directed @WTFOVR
Thank you for helping me increase my acronym vocabulary.
Real thinking is hard work, and our culture doesn’t encourage this sort of work. It is easier to bandy about slogans and preach to the choir.
In fairness, I don’t think that the medium of communication that FreeRepublic uses is conducive to reflective discussion, so this may be the best that is possible on the web in a forum of this sort. If you know of a better website, do let me know.
It is still a great deal better than any newspaper out there, but it doesn’t offer much hope for the Republic.
So the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense lied under oath? Does the press not care? Isn’t this some sort of journalistic malpracrice?
I don’t think it’s the medium. It’s the core values of Americans in 2016. Most simply don’t have it in them anymore to do anything but capitulate. They abandoned their sense of right and wrong and have become the thing they once hated.
It that’s not the case, I don’t see what other explanation there is. Fighting back or standing up for their beliefs is too hard. It might lose them precious social status, just like the politicians they bitch about. So they just don’t.
Then Stockholm Syndrome kicks in and they side with the problem over those trying to do anything at all to correct it.
#5 VerySadAmerican If it takes a dictator to save this country from what Obama the dictator has done, then I'm all for it.
#27 demshateGod Great article. Bookmarked. The logic is irrefutable, so it wont be refuted.
#31 ROCKLOBSTER I want some iron-fisted bastard to do a smashmouth beatdown of the departments, to a tenth of their current size, and eliminate most of them.
#44 Mrs_Puddleglum Yes I want my own dictator. For eight years, to get my country turned back in the right direction.
#50 Lazamataz Absolutely, I want my own dictator.
#58 greene66 Things have degraded to such a point that it is becoming increasingly conceivable that the only avenue for the ultimate survival of Western Civilization might actually require a dictatorial force.
#76 aquila48 The damage that Obama has done can only be undone by someone who's willing to use the same tactics.
#81 Lurkinanloomin That's my Christmas wish (to #50)
If you spent one day in a newsroom, you’d understand why. They are on the same team as the liars. To the core of their beliefs.
They do not see it as malpractice. They see you as the subhuman moron that needs to be led. They don’t realize that those up the ladder view them the same way.
Obviously there is a problem. If you do not see that, that’s your cross to bear.
two words Bill di Blasio...
he who waits in the wings.
Somebody should ask Gowdy about it.
Check out #206. I expected nothing more.
Nor did I.
LIED? Can you imagine that coming out of the Liar-In-Chief’s administration????? Unbelievable - Richard Millhouse Nixon LIED to America and look what happened a couple of generations ago!!! Now we all just accept it and shrug our shoulders. What a cesspool we have sunken into.
“Thank you for helping me increase my acronym vocabulary.”
You’re welcome. I’m glad to be of assistance.
You are correct. We are furious at what has happened to America and the tyranny she has become.
The only difference between ‘tyranny’ and ‘tranny’ is a Y.
If an easy way of standing up for beliefs came by, I think many would opt for it. Arguing coherently is not easy.
As to fighting back in an effective manner, there don’t seem to be any real options that offer a clear path to reform. The political system is shot—even if one gets a couple of good folks elected, they are only a drop in the bucket, and often will go over to the dark side.
One can raise up good offspring, and influence a few others, but this too is hard. Hopefully the five loaves and two fishes can be used by someone else.
If I need to further explain my comment, I believe for the Constitution and the Rule of Law to ‘work’ and prosper, it does require a certain moral standard when it comes to the populace. I would have enough faith in the American people of forty years ago, sixty years ago, a hundred years ago. But not now. The moral rot goes to the very core. The embrace of wholly degenerate crap from dope to faggot-marriage to open-borders tells me the current makeup of the American public is frankly just no longer capable of receiving or thriving from our nation’s structural and political heritage.
Does this mean I’m endorsing a dictator? No, not necessarily. But, as I stated in my post, I’m beginning to think it might ultimately be the only way for either America or Western Civilization as a whole to survive (as Islamic insanity marches on, nastily filling the empty vacuum in peoples’ lives).
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