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…
As more information comes out, it looks more and more like I was right about Stevens being murdered by Obama and Clinton.
State Department gave Stevens movements to the terrorists.
They had Stevens sell the weapons to the terrorists, yes, the weapons used against Stevens were given to them by the State Department via Stevens.
Then, when it became a political issue, they killed Stevens to tie up loose ends. The problem was that too many people were told to NOT HELP STEVENS AS IT WAS HAPPENING for this to go away quietly.
Now, it appears that they actually requested to help before Stevens died, and Hillary, Mrs. Bill Clinton, herself, prevented anyone from going, except those Americans who REFUSED to follow orders.
She might not have pulled the trigger herself, but she murdered that ambassador. Her weapon was the terrorists who did the deed, that’s all.
So?
Nothing will come of it...
Funny how Mitt ruthlessly threw everything AND the kitchen sink at all opposition during the primaries, yet didn't deploy the surefire "Benghazi Campaign Nuke" during the general ...
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Were all forms of mass communication not completely in the hands of Liberal Urban Democrat Union members, it would have. For that matter, if all form of mass communications were not in the hands of Liberal Urban Democrat Union members, Obama could never have won his first election.
The point I am making here is that all of the destruction that has resulted from allowing Liberals to get into positions of power was CAUSED by all forms of mass communication being in the hands of Left-Wing Urban Liberal Nutbags that control what the people hear.
Our number one focus ought to be to destroy that monopoly which they hold over all forms of mass communication. We need to take television and the movies away from them.
“There has to be accountability”.
And not just for the witch, but for the MSM too.
I’m shocked! Does this mean the US military really did have jet fighters near Libya that could have been scrambled to help? Who could have known! I would have guessed that were stationed closer to the South Pole, or some other hot spot!
Martha Stewart serve prison time for far less than this.
Lying to Congress is a punishable crime.
Why should Hillary be above the law?
I say put his in a real orange jump suit.
How could she have stopped it?
He was worried about being called a "racist" if he was mean to the poor little affirmative action idiot boy. I'm not joking. Obama's "blackness" was his most effective shield, because it kept his opponents from treating him as they would a white man.
Had Obama been white, (with the same record) Romney would have smashed him into a little greasy spot, but Romney (and McCain) held back because they were so worried about what all the beautiful people would think of them if they spanked poor little idiot Barry.
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I hope Trump goes on all the networks tomorrow with this news.
It is the vile media people who need to be dangling at the ends of ropes. They created Obama. Without their deliberate malfeasance and connivance, Little Barry Dumbo would be the nothing he so richly deserves to be.
The Media created Obama. The Media then elected him. They need to be hurt, and hurt bad for this horror which they have inflicted on us. I want to see them imprisoned (at least) for what they have done.
So what? She will get with it and be elected POTUS in a landslide.
Americans are stupid people.
It helps if principled conservatives get nominated.
Good one.
Just wait until Trey Gowdy finds out...
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