From the beginning.
January 23, 2012 --A hearing before the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, Clinton
said security requests related to Benghazi
were handled by others at the State Department. It is the State Departments
job. Later she would say "I didn't see those requests. They didn't come to
me. I didn't approve them. I didn't deny them".
Mrs
Clinton said, “I
have made it very clear that the security cables did not come to my attention
or above the assistant secretary level where the ARB (Accountability Review
Board) placed that responsibility.” Yet a cable bearing her
signature dated March 28, 2012, acknowledges a formal request from then-U.S.
Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz for additional security assets, but orders the
withdrawal of security elements to proceed as planned.
House
Republican leaders released a report April 23, 2012 on the deadly terror
attack on the U.S.
diplomatic mission in Benghazi,
Libya, in which
they claim former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally signed off on
cuts in security at the compound, which they say would contradict her
congressional testimony.
Let’s follow the time line.
January 23, 2012, request to the State Department for more
security at Benghazi,
it is denied by the State Department.
Mach 28, 2012, State Department orders drawdown of security
at Benghazi
with Mrs. Clinton signing the document to proceed
April
6, 2012 , the first bombing of the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi
takes place but is repelled.
April 23, 2012, request for additional security due to threat;
request is denied again by the State Department.
June
6, 2012, militants detonated an explosive at the perimeter gate of the
consulate, blowing a hole through the barrier.
.August
16, 2012 – Additional security requested due to imminent threats; request
is denied the third time by the State Department.
September 11, 2012.
21:40 -- A senior State Department security officer at
the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi
called the CIA annex and requested assistance.
21:42 -- Armed men begin their assault on the U.S. Consulate.
21:59 -- A
surveillance drone is directed to fly over the U.S. compound, but it is unarmed.
Why if an attack is going on would you send an unarmed drone?
22:32 --
The Office of the Secretary Defense and the Joint Staff are notified of the
attack by the National
Military Command
Center at the Pentagon.
"The information is quickly passed to Secretary Panetta and General
Dempsey."
23:00 --
Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey meet with
President Obama at the White House where they discuss the unfolding situation
and how to respond. The meeting had been previously scheduled.
23:10 --
The surveillance drone arrives over the Benghazi
facility.
23:30 --
All surviving U.S.
personnel are evacuated from the consulate. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and
State Department computer expert Sean Smith were killed in the initial assault.
September 12, 2012.
00:00
to 02:00 -- Panetta and other senior leaders discuss possible
options for further violence if it were to break out. Panetta gives verbal
orders for Marine anti-terrorist teams from Rota,
Spain, to prepare to deploy
to Tripoli and Benghazi. Panetta also orders special
operations force team training in Croatia
and an additional special operations force team in the United States to prepare to deploy to a staging
base in southern Italy.
01:30
-- A six-man security team from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli
arrives in Benghazi.
02:39
to 02:53 -- The National Military Command Center gives formal
authorization for the deployment of the two special operations force teams from
Croatia and the United States
(5 hours after the battle began). The team sent was not the closest and landed
20 hours after the attack began. According
to the Pentagon timeline, the first conference call to AFRICOM, EUCOM, CENTCOM,
TRANSCOM, SOCOM and the four military branches occurred nearly five hours after
the attack began
05:15
-- Attackers launch assault on a second U.S. facility in Benghazi. Two former U.S. Navy SEALs acting
as security contractors are killed. They are identified as Tyrone Woods and
Glen Doherty.
06:05
-- A C-17 aircraft in Germany
is told to prepare to deploy to Libya
to evacuate the consulate personnel.
07:40
-- The first wave of Americans are evacuated to Tripoli via airplane.
10:00
-- A second group, including those killed in the attack, are flown to Tripoli.
14:15
-- The C-17 departs from Germany
for the flight to Tripoli.
19:17
-- The C-17 leaves Tripoli
with the American consulate personnel and the bodies of Stevens, Smith, Woods
and Doherty.
19:57
-- The U.S. special operations force team based in Croatia arrives at a staging base in Italy.
20:56
-- One of the Marine anti-terrorist teams from Spain
arrives in Tripoli.
21:28
-- The U.S.-based special operations force team arrives at its staging base in Italy.
A Special Operator says C-110 team could have been there
within 3-5 hours away; I don’t know if they could have saved the ambassador,
but they would have had a better chance then not sending them.
Our leaders in the White House watched
in real time the attack happening; they knew it wasn’t a protest but a well
coordinated military style attack and did nothing.
Defense Secretary
Leon Panetta testified at a February Senate Armed Services Committee
hearing that Obama talked to him only once by telephone during the time the
consulate was under assault, and never
called him back for updates. Your embassy is being attacked and you show
where your priorities lay. I have nothing against President Obama, if they
would have been any far left liberal, Democrat or Republican in office, they
would have done the same thing. You have two incompetent people here; Leon
Panetta who should of kept President Obama informed and President Obama for not
taking more interest in an embassy being attacked.
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.
What made me mad was the lied about it and all the
spin-misters went to work including President Obama, Jay Carney, Susan Rice, Hillary
Clinton, David Axelrod, and the list goes on and on but the U.S. ambassador to
Libya and three others where killed during an attack that lasted several hours
and targeted two separate facilities and the American people gave them a pass,
reelecting incompetence.
What if these dead Americans were your father, your son, your
brother, your husband, your uncle, your best friend; would you still voted for incompetence?
I don’t like Mitt Romney anymore then I like President Obama but I would fill
safer with him. If it was up to me I would want to get rid of most everyone in
office and put someone there who will do what is best for the country instead
of their own pocket book or party. I wouldn’t vote for a single person that put
the spin on Benghazi.
If they will sell their soul to cover up something as important as this, I know
they won’t protect me, my family, my freedoms, or my country.
This is caused by selfishness; everybody in America seems to
want everything for free and when they don’t get it they throw a fix. But as my
dad use to say until he died, “Nothing is free; someone somewhere had to pay
for it”. His words are so true and if we don’t wake up America, our
children will be the ones who pay. As I have told you in a previous post, the
President wants a Civilian
National Security Force as strong as the US military, why? The answer;
control and power.
If we don’t stop giving our rights away and electing
politicians who buy our votes by giving us entitlements, we will be the next Beirut. What you are not
seeing are the ones giving you all these entitlements are the same ones taking yours
and your children’s freedoms and dignity as payment; remember nothing is for
free.
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