Benghazi Scandle

CBS News

The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command Africa.

U.S. diplomat contradicts White House on Benghazi

The account from Gregory Hicks is in stark contrast to assertions from the Obama administration, which insisted that nobody was ever told to stand down and that all available resources were utilized. Hicks gave private testimony to congressional investigators last month in advance of his upcoming appearance at a congressional hearing Wednesday.

According to excerpts released Monday, Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA commander Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound "when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, 'you can't go now, you don't have the authority to go now.' And so they missed the flight ... They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it."

No assistance arrived from the U.S. military outside of Libya during the hours that Americans were under attack or trapped inside compounds by hostile forces armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and AK-47 rifles.

Hicks told congressional investigators that if the U.S. had quickly sent a military aircraft over Benghazi, it might have saved American lives. The U.S. Souda Bay Naval Base is an hour's flight from Libya.

"I believe if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them," Hicks testified. Two Americans died in the morning mortar attack.

Obama administration officials have insisted that no military resources could have made it in time. A White House official told CBS News that, at the start of the attack, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "looked at available options, and the ones we exercised had our military forces arrive in less than 24 hours, well ahead of timelines laid out in established policies."

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Who's going to take the fall for this?

If the left gets their way, no one will be taking any fall.

Denying a request to keep security levels unchanged as opposed to being reduced, denied.

Attempts to rescue our men, denied.

The cause of the attack, a total fabrication to try and trivialize AQ

4 dead Americans, "what difference does it make at this point?"

All of this means nothing to them.

It's all about racism or a republican witch hunt.

Pathetic, aren't they

And they had a hell of a fundraiser the next night.

Party time!

The first question this guy should be asked is why now? Why 1 1/2 years later? Where was this testimony 1 1/2 years ago?

FWIW I don't think anybody will take the fall for this although someone should.

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....Obama administration officials have insisted that no military resources could have made it in time....

 

 

Interesting, did the administration know how long the attack was going last......... before it started?

 

They straight out lied or made it up.

They had bigger priorities, an election to win. They certainly were not going to let a few inconveinent dead Americans mess up the election.

Why did ambassador Susan Rice go on television the weekend after the attack and talk up the anti-Muslim YouTube video when the CIA never linked the two? Why the diversion? What was the administration hiding?

Why did ambassador Susan Rice go on television the weekend after the attack and talk up the anti-Muslim YouTube video when the CIA never linked the two? Why the diversion? What was the administration hiding?

That's what she was told to do. The diversion was to not derail the election.

They were and still are hiding their inept handling in response to the attack.

BTW, I was told yesterday by leftists that if you call the Bengazi scandal a "scandal" then you are the problem.  Not Hill n Barack, you.  I was also told that the death of four Americans was minutiae.

So pipe down.

why dont you all just shut the **** up and eat what michelle tells you to. you ******* racists.

Scandle??? The only SCANDAL here is that you don't know how to write English!

37 American servicemen have died in Afghanistan this year.  Why no threads about them?

37 American servicemen have died in Afghanistan this year.  Why no threads about them?

http://www.stripersonline.com/t/863406/afghan-casualties-list-from-now-till-all-our-damn-boys-are-home

Scandle??? The only SCANDAL here is that you don't know how to write English!

Citing misspellings really adds to your argument. Not that you really have one.

Hell, I'd bet a majority of the electorate that put Obama in office for a second round is quite illiterate.

37 American servicemen have died in Afghanistan this year.  Why no threads about them?

Then start one. This is about the deception and responsibilities or lack thereof concerning Benghazi.

Who's going to take the fall for this?

Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi and were was this C 130 ? going to land on the street in Benghazi do you even know were that air field is I do... were they expected to walk look at a map

and how many are in a team 4

"I believe if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them," Hicks testified. Two Americans died in the morning mortar attack.

This is his believe ... there is no fact that that would have changed events on the ground.. Hes a politician not a military expert seems he watches to many movies .. and thats base missis is refueling most if not all combat support comes out of aviano Italy

Souda Bay Naval Base Mission

At the U.S. Naval Support Activity, Souda Bay, "SUPPORT" is literally our middle name. Our presence is dedicated to taking care of the fleet and airborne operations in this strategically critical area of the world, which is our primary mission, and to building a new spirit of cooperation with our Greek Allies. NSA Souda Bay routinely functions as a Naval Operating Base, Naval Air Station and Naval Weapons Station. NSA Souda Bay skillfully orchestrated joint U.S. Navy (USN) / U.S. Air Force (USAF) reconnaissance missions and air refueling support for Operations Desert Shield/Storm, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom and other joint USN/USAF and multi-national operations.

Who's going to take the fall for this? no one there is nothing to fall from ... Its just the usual trying to mold a version of events it to a story that you want to hear regardless of the facts .. and the totally denial of of how military operations are conducted like i said To many Movies