UK2K
01-12-2016, 04:50 PM
From NBC, you leftists ****s, who will inevitably cry that this is a biased article.
As I said from the get-go, there is nowhere on Earth we can't have SOF within a few hours, and this email shows that they were available for use in Benghazi, but they were never used.
The story that these guys were told to 'stand down', I knew, from the beginning, was the truth. Now, we all know it's the truth.
http://nbc16.com/news/connect-to-congress/full-measure-rescue-interrupted
Now an email hidden from public view for three years reveals another rescue attempt was apparently interrupted. The military offered to deploy Special Forces to Benghazi during the assault, long before the attackers killed CIA contractors and former Navy Seals Glen Doherty and Ty Woods.
Three and a half hours into the eight-hour long siege, the military's Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash emails top State Department officials: "we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak. They include a SOF [Special Operations Forces] element that was in Croatia."
Retired Army Green Beret Col. Andrew Wood commanded a Special Forces anti-terrorism team protecting Ambassador Chris Stevens and other diplomats in Libya. In 2012, Wood told Congress his team was removed from Libya by the Obama administration a month before the attacks, despite warnings of terrorist violence to come.
For the first time, Wood is speaking out with a startling claim: that those Special Forces offered in the military email were on their way to Benghazi, but were turned back.
The White House has refused to detail the involvement of President Obama, the Commander-in-Chief, while Americans were under attack on foreign soil. Following a short briefing at the beginning of the assault, he virtually disappears from the public narrative.
The White House declined to comment for this report but has long denied any assets were available or ready, and said everything possible was done.
Yet the email indicates Special Forces were ready and high-ranking Obama administration officials, or "Principals" were to weigh in. "Assuming Principals agree to deploy these elements, we will ask State to secure the approval from host nation," the military emails the State Department. "Please advise how you wish to convey that approval to us."
Inexplicably, nobody did seek Libya's approval for the U.S. forces to fly in to help.
The availability of Special Forces is news to Greg Hicks, the top U.S. diplomat in Tripoli during the assault. In 2013, Hicks testified he was repeatedly told there was no military help available.
But the administration says...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- SC): Was any DOD asset ever deployed to help these people before the end of the attack?
Gen. Martin Dempsey: Would you rephrase would you?
Graham: Was any DOD asset aircraft or individual soldier ever sent put in motion to help these people before the attack was over?
Dempsey: Let let let if I could, as soon as we knew there was an attack, the National Missions Force and the FAST teams began
Graham: My question is did anybody leave any base anywhere to go to the aid of the people under attack in Benghazi, Libya, before the attack ended?
Sec. Leon Panetta: No because the attack ended before we could get off the ground.
Adding to the claims of a rescue interrupted: the leader of a Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST) in the U.S. earlier testified his squad, too, was stopped from responding and a small U.S. military team in Tripoli was ordered not to board a plane for Benghazi during the attacks.
Col. Wood says it all implies a decision at the highest level. Otherwise, he believes the military would have gotten in position to respond five hours before the Benghazi attacks when the U.S. faced a related crisis: Islamic extremists overran the American Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
Wood: Their compound had been breached and there were people now inside their buildings under protection of Marine guards waiting for someone to bust into the rooms. To me, that would signal somebody should be getting those reaction forces ready to stand by and perhaps move. And then 5 hours later, when things occurred in Benghazi, and again, the alarm bell went off, and there was no apparent response, that's a pretty tough one to explain. With events transpiring in Cairo, at the Embassy in Cairo, I think the decision not to react may have been made very early on in the day, when those events were transpiring. So that by the time that Benghazi happened, it wasn't going to happen because that decision was made early on.
Another lie from our government. Bravo. The email is posted at the link, if the deniers want to broaden their horizons a bit.
As I said from the get-go, there is nowhere on Earth we can't have SOF within a few hours, and this email shows that they were available for use in Benghazi, but they were never used.
The story that these guys were told to 'stand down', I knew, from the beginning, was the truth. Now, we all know it's the truth.
http://nbc16.com/news/connect-to-congress/full-measure-rescue-interrupted
Now an email hidden from public view for three years reveals another rescue attempt was apparently interrupted. The military offered to deploy Special Forces to Benghazi during the assault, long before the attackers killed CIA contractors and former Navy Seals Glen Doherty and Ty Woods.
Three and a half hours into the eight-hour long siege, the military's Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash emails top State Department officials: "we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak. They include a SOF [Special Operations Forces] element that was in Croatia."
Retired Army Green Beret Col. Andrew Wood commanded a Special Forces anti-terrorism team protecting Ambassador Chris Stevens and other diplomats in Libya. In 2012, Wood told Congress his team was removed from Libya by the Obama administration a month before the attacks, despite warnings of terrorist violence to come.
For the first time, Wood is speaking out with a startling claim: that those Special Forces offered in the military email were on their way to Benghazi, but were turned back.
The White House has refused to detail the involvement of President Obama, the Commander-in-Chief, while Americans were under attack on foreign soil. Following a short briefing at the beginning of the assault, he virtually disappears from the public narrative.
The White House declined to comment for this report but has long denied any assets were available or ready, and said everything possible was done.
Yet the email indicates Special Forces were ready and high-ranking Obama administration officials, or "Principals" were to weigh in. "Assuming Principals agree to deploy these elements, we will ask State to secure the approval from host nation," the military emails the State Department. "Please advise how you wish to convey that approval to us."
Inexplicably, nobody did seek Libya's approval for the U.S. forces to fly in to help.
The availability of Special Forces is news to Greg Hicks, the top U.S. diplomat in Tripoli during the assault. In 2013, Hicks testified he was repeatedly told there was no military help available.
But the administration says...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- SC): Was any DOD asset ever deployed to help these people before the end of the attack?
Gen. Martin Dempsey: Would you rephrase would you?
Graham: Was any DOD asset aircraft or individual soldier ever sent put in motion to help these people before the attack was over?
Dempsey: Let let let if I could, as soon as we knew there was an attack, the National Missions Force and the FAST teams began
Graham: My question is did anybody leave any base anywhere to go to the aid of the people under attack in Benghazi, Libya, before the attack ended?
Sec. Leon Panetta: No because the attack ended before we could get off the ground.
Adding to the claims of a rescue interrupted: the leader of a Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST) in the U.S. earlier testified his squad, too, was stopped from responding and a small U.S. military team in Tripoli was ordered not to board a plane for Benghazi during the attacks.
Col. Wood says it all implies a decision at the highest level. Otherwise, he believes the military would have gotten in position to respond five hours before the Benghazi attacks when the U.S. faced a related crisis: Islamic extremists overran the American Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
Wood: Their compound had been breached and there were people now inside their buildings under protection of Marine guards waiting for someone to bust into the rooms. To me, that would signal somebody should be getting those reaction forces ready to stand by and perhaps move. And then 5 hours later, when things occurred in Benghazi, and again, the alarm bell went off, and there was no apparent response, that's a pretty tough one to explain. With events transpiring in Cairo, at the Embassy in Cairo, I think the decision not to react may have been made very early on in the day, when those events were transpiring. So that by the time that Benghazi happened, it wasn't going to happen because that decision was made early on.
Another lie from our government. Bravo. The email is posted at the link, if the deniers want to broaden their horizons a bit.