There are plenty of military people who got the stand down order. But good officers that they are, they aren’t talking. Forces around the Med, including Italy, stood up and were told to stand down.
I think it was they hoped the Benghazi CIA/State op to smuggle weapons to Al Qeida through Turkey would get exposed. They hoped it would fade quickly and business as usual would go on.
That was a central place where America changed sides in the war against islam.
I listened to the book on a trip this past summer.
13 hours of near constant combat is just mind numbing.
I finished the book in awe of these men.
Mike Rogers was beholding to the Clintons for firing the US Attorneys in 1993 part of which was to cover up corruption within the FBI.
The local offices of the FBI had been covering up corruption in the mostly democrat controlled city govts.
Mike Rogers was in the FBI’s Chicago office public corruption unit.