{"id":35477,"date":"2013-05-06T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35477"},"modified":"2013-05-06T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:27:05","slug":"trigger-pullers-told-to-stand-down-for-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35477","title":{"rendered":"Trigger-pullers told to ‘stand down’ for Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard this yesterday, but I was waiting to see if witnesses to the attack on the Benghazi consulate were actually going to tell Congress that Special Forces soldiers were told to “stand down” for their planned insertion into that fray. According to CBS News<\/a>, that was in the testimony today; <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, we suspected that from the beginning. All of that blather about there being no time to react, that troops were too far away to have an impact on the battle, blah, blah, blah, was all armchair quarterbacking and outright lies. But, hey, there was an election to win, so what were four lives compared to that?<\/p>\n

Also from CBS News is the reaction from acting ambassador to Libya, Greg Hicks who wasn’t at the consulate at the time of the attack. He said that from his vantage point, he thought it was a terrorist attack, too, and he thought that everyone in the State Department knew it was a terrorist attack and that his “jaw hit the floor” when he heard that a YouTube video was blamed for the attack. The video auto-starts;
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