Watch Panetta and Dempsey lie shamefully to the senate in 2013 about rescues, on the way, or not on the way.
http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/rescue-interrupted-part-2
Benghazi’s Smoking Gun? Only President Can Give “Cross-Border Authority”
https://pjmedia.com/blog/benghazis-smoking-gun-only-president-can-give-%e2%80%98cross-border-authority%e2%80%99/
Here, I discuss CBA with the article’s author Ken Timmerman.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261442/hillarys-benghazi-stand-down-order-exposed-kenneth-r-timmerman#comment-2460472038
Someone should put a timeline on that night. Hillary sent emails to Chelsea and we know the time. Where did she send it from? That is the question.
The lies at such a high level, to Congress and to the Public, are how you know that the 0bama Administration got caught with its pants down.
Yes, I agree with your point that a mere lack of CBA from 0bama would force an abort by default of an external rescue coming in to Libya.
I must point out, however, that we had assets *inside* Libya that would have not needed to cross a border to achieve a rescue.
In fact, a few of those assets were 1 mile away from Steven's safehouse at a CIA station.
Now ask yourself, why would an Ambassador have a safe house 1 mile away from a CIA station in the heart of injun country, 600+ miles away from his secure Embassy in Tripoli?!
...and Why would an Ambassador go meet with the Turkish emissary there on 9/11?!
High level diplomats don't like to slum at 4 star hotels, much less war zone safe houses. A U.S. Ambassador and a Turkish emissary chose to meet there, in Benghazi, instead of living it up at a 5-star in Tripoli?!
No way. Except, there they were. And we don't know why **officially** even today.
Did the CIA know about their meeting, and was "in" on what Hillary and 0bama were doing there, or was the safehouse needed so that 0bama and Hillary could do something that even our corrupt CIA would disapprove of if it was known?
...the Public still doesn't know. Does the CIA?
You know, we do not actually know whether there WERE active duty US military personnel inside Libya who were fighting at the set of buildings that night.
At least one man was visited by Kerry the following March-at Walter Reed. Not some private hospital.
We hear the CBA discussion and have heard it. Based on the actions of this President, it is just as likely that the reason Ham and Gaouette were responding was specifically because of the requests for assistance from military personnel already engaged in fighting.
Two things fill my mind still about that night: the two who bled out, firing .50 cals. And the guy, on the roof, lasing the target, fighting off the enemy.
I am sure there are those who do know ‘the half of it’ that we don’t know.