Two questions on Benghazi
The term “stand down order” has been used and abused to describe multiple orders/non-orders. My question about a “stand down order” concerns the very first one.
When the mission, consulate, whatever you want to call the place where the ambassador was first came under attack, certain people at the “CIA annex”, who were ready to run to the sound of the guns were told, by phone, not to do so. They were ordered to “stand down.” This information was reported by Catherine Herridge as coming from “people on the ground.”
Who was it that gave that order to NOT go to the aid of the ambassador? This was before Stevens was determined to be “missing”, before the 7:30 PM WH meeting and before any US military assets were ordered mustered.
My second question is WHY were there some 30-40 people at this “CIA annex”? What was their mission? WHAT were they doing there?
They were coordinating transfers of weapons from Qaddaffi’s arsenals to the Turks that were then shipped to isis and al queda in Syria. Probably also trying to buy back sensitive stuff that we had supplied to the Libyan rebels.