‘Obama’s and Panetta’s CLEAR ORDER TO SEND MILITARY ASSETS”?????
I thought they didn’t give an order to send our Military. Did they rescind that order with a later Stand Down???
Just hoping there is enough there there so families can file a class action suit. Wouldn’t discovery be interesting!
In his remarks, Panetta said the initial reports of the attack were given “almost immediately” to the U.S. Embassy in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
Within 17 minutes, Panetta said, an unarmed, unmanned surveillance aircraft was dispatched to give U.S. officials a better idea of what was happening. It arrived at the site about 70 minutes after the attack, he said.
Soon, Panetta and Dempsey met with President Barack Obama, the secretary told lawmakers.
Obama ordered that the Defense Department respond to the attack with “all available DOD assets” and try to protect U.S. personnel, Panetta said.
At that 5pm meeting with Panetta and Demsey is where I'd expect the 'update' to the order should have been given being the chain of command is aware of a phone call from Libya,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-of-final-2012-presidential-debate/
Now with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way;
But as many times as we see Panetta in the media, he is never asked when he got the order and what he did to comply.