Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces Told "You Can't Go" To Benghazi During Attacks -- CBS News
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 South Africa.
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.
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Update #1: Benghazi Whistleblower: Requests for Military Backup Denied -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast
Update #2: U.S. Military in Tripoli Ordered Not to Go to Benghazi -- Weekly Standard
Update #3: Whistleblower: Benghazi rescue team told to stand down before second deadly attack -- Washington Examiner
My Comment: Someone has to be held accountable for these decisions. There is no longer "ifs or buts" to explain away this tragedy. People made decisions that resulted in people dying .... we need to know who made those decisions, and why.
2 comments:
This is where congress should stand up and do it's job. Impeachment. Some one needs to go and the buck clearly stops at Obama.
Nobody died during Watergate. The huge gulf of reportage between incidents such as this during Democrat & Republican administrations is appalling.
It's not just the politicians that need to be pilloried, but the scandal has to be pursued into the MSM.
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