{"id":32583,"date":"2012-10-26T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32583"},"modified":"2012-10-26T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T20:48:10","slug":"abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32583","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> is reporting that they’ve talked to people who are familiar with the radio traffic that was related to the attack on the Benghazi consulate. Apparently, the two former SEALs who were killed that day were repeatedly denied permission to aid the folks who were involved in the conflagration at the consulate and finally, they disregarded their superiors and went anyway. <\/p>\n

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 Spectre 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As COB6 pointed out in an email, if there was a guy “painting” targets with a laser designator, that means that there was air support on station near the consulate, most likely an AC130 gunship. So all of the elements were on the scene to rescue the four Americans and disrupted the obviously planned attack, but they were denied the support they needed to save their lives.<\/p>\n

According to sources on the ground during the attack, 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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, they’re not going to waste their time painting a target if there’s nothing to shoot with. <\/p>\n

JP sends a link to ABCNEWS<\/a> in which Leon Panetta warns everyone against “Monday morning quarterbacking”;<\/p>\n

Panetta said that they didn\u2019t have enough \u201creal-time information\u201d to send military forces to respond.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The) basic principle is that you don\u2019t deploy forces into harm\u2019s way without knowing what\u2019s going on; without having some real-time information about what\u2019s taking place,\u201d Panetta said, according to The Associated Press. \u201cAnd as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t how much more “real time” information they needed since they were in radio contact with people who were on the ground with eyes and GLDs on the targets.<\/p>\n

The president got a “3AM phone call” and then went to Las Vegas costing the lives of four Americans by avoiding making the proper call in exchange for some campaign contributions. If Watergate cost a President his job, this cover up should certainly cost this one his job next week.<\/p>\n

There’s much more at the excellent article at the Fox News link written by Jennifer Griffin and you should read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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