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…
If you were thinking of running, knowing that your base is as fickle as it is, would you?
WE are the problem.
WTF???? Trey couldn’t get this info?
Perjury! It's jail time for Leon. May he get a nasty surprise in the showers.
It will be a good day when her wretched soul passes from this plane of existence.
Yeah, the GOP’s Keystone Cops. I have come to believe that the GOP really doesn’t want to get to the truth. They simply want the rubes back home to think they mean business without shaking things up too much.
Think about it, investigation after investigation about all the dirty, unlawful deeds of the Democrats and what has it EVER produced? Absolutely nothing! Gun running, the IRS attacks, Benghazi, Hillary’s emails, what has been produced? What has been gained? That’s their job with all their resources and the Majority and they still can’t, or won’t, do anything.
I won’t even talk about stopping Obama.
Of course he has the info..but the truth won’t be useful for the Kabuki theater he set up. That committee was all cover to show how “tough” they are, for the record/constituents only.
Yes, in the immortal words of Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
I’ve gone Galt by moving to Canada (initially somewhat by accident but remaining deliberately), into somewhat northern Ontario. Between the educational system undermining the youth; the cities growing, being dominated by people more than one generation off of the land, and in most states politically swamping the rural areas; and an unhealthy electronic culture, I don’t see any likely way of solving the thing, Electing Trump (or in a lesser way Cruz) strikes me as the political equivalent of pulling one’s goalie: a necessary move to improve one’s not terribly good odds of escaping from a position that is untenable in the medium-to-short term.
Thanks.
We had choices and chose poorly. Few want to own up to it but we live in the reality of it.
Okay, what did I do to help drive the GOP left? Did I donate to someone who was not a principled conservative? Did I attend their rallies? Did I support them on talk radio? Did I support them here or on Twitter or Facebook. Just exactly what did I do? This is bull****.
I am calling you out as a liar. You are saying things about me that are simply not true. Show me any proof that I somehow helped push the GOP left. That is your preposterous accusation. Any proof whatsoever! What is wrong with you? Stop lying about me and the things in which I believe. I am damned tired of it.
I am wrong on Romney? Who the hell are you? I didn’t support Romney. I reluctantly voted for him because Obama was unthinkable. He is proving it every day. Had Romney won, I would have been all over him in the many areas I disagreed.
My guess is that Ambassador Stevens was involved in a gun running scheme, using the CIA compound in Benghazi as a channel so to provide weapons to militant factions fighting Assad in Syria. He was thus an expendable patsy, and left defenseless - along with those who tried to defend the compound - so to eliminate the possibility of his later testifying at the treason trial of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, both of whom are traitors against this Republic.
If Mittens had a back bone and stood up to obuma, Mittens would have been President, but Mittens had a 10 car garage to build and was to busy...
So now we have a candidate that has a back bone of steel, lets hope we can get him in the White House so this doesn’t happen to our Americans again!!!
Simple. You did your part with 60,000,000 plus people that you would vote for whatever they threw up no matter how liberal.
They put up a guy that BBQs dead dismembered babies for profit via stericycle. You knew that as you are a poster here. And you did it anyway. Lots of people did. More every day regret it and admitted it was a bad mistake.
You won’t.
Who am I? I am the guy that was 100% right. I am the guy that fought with you and a hundred others here to try to stop that. I am the uy that continues to take liberal shit from the remanants of your failed and destructive choices and will do it gladly because the truth matters whether you admit it or not.
Yup. My guess as well.
That is an excellent insight. If Gowdy were serious about getting at the truth about Benghazi, it is so logical to interview the 6th Fleet commander or officers who were on station, that the failure to do so suggests Gowdy was part of the ongoing deception.
That is very plausible ! At the time this was going down there was talk of he and O knowing each other in Chicago. The black muslim street gang ( founded by a Mexican drug cartel) that controlled the community that O organized was also involved in gun running and domestic terrorism funded by Kadaffi through FerretCON — putting your theory with above— HMMMMM??????
Timothy McVeigh.
Any chance there is a Clinton family miscarriage coming up soon...?
There are those who on this cycle will not vote for any R who does not fit their vision of what a Conservative is. Be that true or not, the end result will be either Hildebeast or Comrade Bernie. If it is Trump, they will either abstain or vote a third party. Same result. It is almost a fatalistic act. Like wishing for the apocalypse. Somewhat like the muzzies doing whatever they can to get that 12th or 13th imam to crawl from the well in some godforsaken hellhole in Iran.
REMEMBER. As long as there is a democrat in the WH no prosecution will occur because whomever is president has the power to pardon.
Timing is the key that unlocks Justice !
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