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[typography font="Ubuntu Condensed" size="24" size_format="px"]EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say[/typography]
[highlight]Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that three urgent requests from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack nearly seven hours later were denied by officials in the CIA chain of command — who also told the CIA operators to “stand down” rather than help the ambassador’s team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.[/highlight]
Former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were part of a small team who were at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. Consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When they heard the shots fired, they radioed to inform their higher-ups to tell them what they were hearing. They were told to “stand down,” according to sources familiar with the exchange. An hour later, they called again to headquarters and were again told to “stand down.”
Woods, Doherty and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the Consulate which at that point was on fire. Shots were exchanged. The quick reaction force from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the Consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.
At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.
A Special Operations team, or CIF which stands for Commanders in Extremis Force, operating in Central Europe had been moved to Sigonella, Italy, but they too were told to stand down. A second force that specializes in counterterrorism rescues was on hand at Sigonella, according to senior military and intelligence sources. According to those sources, they could have flown to Benghazi in less than two hours. They were the same distance to Benghazi as those that were sent from Tripoli. Specter gunships are commonly used by the Special Operations community to provide close air support.
According to sources on the ground, the special operator on the roof of the CIA annex had visual contact and a laser pointing at the Libyan mortar team that was targeting the CIA annex. The operators were calling in coordinates of where the Libyan forces were firing from.
Anger doesn’t begin to touch what I’m feeling…
UPDATE:
A must watch Rush clip from The Right Scoop:
This is an amazing phone call from a retired Lt. Col. and Special Operations Planner for 15 years who knows the inside baseball of what goes on in the White House. He told Rush that protocol dictates that as soon as the situation room got the email about the Benghazi attack, someone marched up to the president and informed him of the attack. He says it’s a bald faced lie if they say otherwise.
He also says that it was the president who gave the order at his 5pm meeting that day to not respond to the Libya attack in progress.
[typography font="Ubuntu Condensed" size="24" size_format="px" color="darkred"]Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus has emphatically denied that he or anyone else at the CIA refused assistance to the former Navy SEALs who requested it three times as terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on the night of Sep. 11. The Weekly Standard and ABC News report that Petraeus’s denial effectively implicates President Barack Obama, since a refusal to assist “would have been a presidential decision.”[/typography]
smoke coming from ears
and sadness – deep, deep, sadness
My anger and frustration levels are so high I just keep bursting into tears…
Those motherfuckers have blood on their hands, and I want them dragged out of the white house, the naval observatory, and wherever the fuck Hillary lives in handcuffs.
How could they stand in front of the American people for weeks, claiming it was some stupid video? How could they arrest and imprison an innocent citizen? How could Obama fake that outrageous outrage during the debate when Romney claimed that there was more to the story? Pretending to be “offended” that anyone would claim such a thing.
Turns out that the truth is far worse than anyone ever imagined.
I. Want. Them. Prosecuted.
What you said!!
It’s just TOO MUCH. It’s like the tipping point.
I cannot find the words that could come even close to the anger I feel over this – this whitehouse has gone so far past not having a clue they can at least be convicted of manslaughter if not second degree murder
I feel you, trust me.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/becks-emotional-response-to-bombshell-stand-down-libya-allegations-today-officially-is-the-day-that-i-no-longer-recognize-my-country/
“Today officially is the day that I no longer recognize my country.”
Yep.
How anyone can still support this administration of murderers is beyond me. Every single one of them need to be put on trial for murder.
Oh, hell yes!
I’ve been missing my country since the LBJ Administration. That bunch did the same thing, over and over, in Southeast Asia. I can’t do much about it but I did manage to pee on LBJ’s grave. Any of my grandsons who want to inherit one of my guns must promise to pee on Obamas and Bidens.
Well, at least you have a plan. ;-)
with friends in the State Dept stationed in that part of the world, you better believe I worry every single day about them. I don’t know that I believe the WH denied assistance, but then again, I don’t know that I disbelieve it either. Regardless, it infuriates me that we don’t protect our people better than this.
I know. This needs to keep boiling until it goes over the pan and we find out what really happened.
Was this a WH agreed to kidnapping that went bad? You just know 0bama would swap some blind guy to get back the Ambassador – sorry, but I do not trust this administration
Could be!!
Yes Pam – must keep bubbling and steaming – we must keep yelling until we are heard. Otherwise the MSM will continue to ignore. But we can own that facebook and twitter thing – and force them to deal with it.
Amen.
ABC News is leading with the ‘superstorm’ [spare me] and “What We Learned from Romney’s 91 Testimony”.
MSNBC is Sandy, Sandy, Sandy. Oh, and a new poll that says “majority harbor prejudice against blacks”.
THIS IS THE CRAP we’re up against!! No one will even know what happened unless they dig. It’s… unspeakable.
I’ve spent my yard work breaks trying to interject reason on a lefty friend’s facebook all day. They don’t like having their own tactics turned back on them – especially when you point out how it is their own tactics. sigh
Keep up the good fight.
Oh – and she’s a lefty friend who likes to claim to be a Republican…. the worst kind.
A Colin Powell! Good luck with her!!!
It’s all over Twitter along with the rumor that General Ham (in charge of Africom) was relieved of command for attempting to come to the aid of the ambassador.
Good! It needs to get out.
Saw the rumor about General Ham last night, but didn’t post only because it’s a rumor. I’d LOVE for it to be true!!