{"id":35501,"date":"2013-05-08T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35501"},"modified":"2013-05-08T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T13:22:02","slug":"benghazi-about-that-problem-of-time-and-distance-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35501","title":{"rendered":"Benghazi; about that “problem of time and distance” thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Bloomberg<\/a>, Gregory Hicks, now the interim ambassador to Libya, said in testimony to Congress that he repeatedly asked for air cover for the besieged consulate on September 11th last year and his requests were ignored. When the Libyans offered to fly four special forces soldiers to the site of the attack in a C-130 aircraft, they were denied permission to board by someone in their command – an event which stands in stark contrast to Leon Panetta’s statement while he was Secretary of Defense, that the administration was hindered by “time and distance”. <\/p>\n

Hours after the initial assault that killed Stevens and one of the other Americans, Hicks said, the Libyan military offered to transport the special forces unit from an air base near Tripoli to Benghazi aboard a C-130 transport. They were ordered not to board the plane by U.S. commanders, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe fully intended for those guys to go, because we had already essentially stripped ourselves of our security presence, or our security capability to the bare minimum,\u201d Hicks said.<\/p>\n

Hicks told committee investigators he was informed by the unit\u2019s commander that \u201cthey were on their way to the vehicles to go to the airport to get on the C-130 when he got a phone call from\u201d commanders and was told \u201c\u2018you can\u2019t go now, you don\u2019t have authority to go now.\u2019 And so they missed the flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

As events unfolded, the C-130 didn\u2019t arrive until after a second attack on a CIA annex in Benghazi that killed the other two Americans. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our buddy, Gateway Pundit<\/a> reports that Tyrone Woods called for air support which went unanswered. Even though Woods and his team had the capability to direct fire from aircraft accurately to their intended target with laser designators;<\/p>\n

The presence of laser capability on the roof of the CIA annex confirms what Fox News sources that night in Benghazi originally said, which is that they had laser capability and for 5 hours and 15 minutes were wondering where the usual overhead air support was, especially since, according to this source, they radioed from the annex beginning as early as midnight asking for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, we’ll see what happens to come out during testimony today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Bloomberg, Gregory Hicks, now the interim ambassador to Libya, said in testimony to Congress … Benghazi; about that “problem of time and distance” thing<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}