Broken Arrow ? more like Limp Wrist.
You forgot #1. Where were the Marine Guards that were assigned to guard American Soil and who authorized their movement! This is the first hanging that needs to take place.
IBTZ
“Why was there no diplomatic version of “Broken Arrow” called?”
C’mon. THERE WAS. Sat phones. Text messages.
It’s treason.
ALL of your questions have been more than amply answered on pages of this forum today. Go read - your answers are all there.
One tough heartless decision they made that I agree with:
I think it was a mistake for ANYONE at the annex to drive over to the Consulate and get involved in the gun battle, there.
Brave, yep..! But smart? Nope —the stuff going on at the annex was FAR more sensitive than the biz typically being done at the consulate, and annex/Consulate traffic would LEAD ATTACKERS TO THE ANNEX.
After they did that, the attack count went from one to two, the KIA went from two to four, and we lost a whole CIA base. And it’s likely that ALL Libyans helping us to recover MANPADS in Libya now fear their names were compromised and now they won’t work with us.
Uh...the SEALS were brave as heck but in fact that was a bad decision, from an intel perspective.
The huge political error was just sitting around and sending NO AIR SUPPORT —they were afraid of a Blackhawk Down/Desert One right before a Prez election.
Yes there was one. There was a code worded message flashed to the White House where they either countermanded an automatic standing-order to respond to the Benghazi emergency, or they just ignored the calls and denied all requests for help.
That is not an accusation, just an observation.
Broken Arrow. Isn’t that the code name for some nuclear bomb incident?
OBAMA WENT TO BED TO GO TO LAS VEGAS THE NEXT DAY!!!
While all the action was taking place Obama went to bed. I have no doubt he was HAPPPY that things went against the US over there. Obama HATES this country.
All has been relegated to file 13, commonly known as a Hillary-inspired-investigation that will be delayed until after the election, chaired by Pickering, who is a known sympathizer to all things Arab. Got it?
Now you will likely not be satisfied with anything but the “official” government determinations of all events, while ignoring live audio, live video, live testimony under oath to Issa’s committee and all subsequent leaks coming from the abandoned— the soldiers on the ground, the military witnesses on the ground, in the air and on the sea who heard it all on their own transmissions, and who were ordered to “stand down”, which Panetta admitted.
As of today, there are un-refuted allegations that a CIA operative on the rooftop of the safe house had a laser sighting device pointed at the terrorist mortar crew that was killing Americans, but nobody would allow the AC130 gunship circling overhead to take out the terrorists.
That’s about all you need to know to know that 0bama sacrificed Americans lives.
The “Why” is in 0bama’s head, and we can offer conjecture. But as of now, all we know is 0bama LET THEM BE KILLED.
Assets were ready for the “go” signal to launch a rescue operation — including an AC-130U gunship that could have been overhead in less than two hours — because the attack lasted for seven hours. POTUS Obama, SecState Clinton, SecDef Panetta, and DCI Patraeus are guilty of dereliction of duty and criminal negligence resulting in these four deaths. They are also responsible for compromised national security materials. The buck stops with them.
A reporter walked in there the next day and found the Ambassador’s personal diary, just laying on the ground.
Among the many questions we need answered, why didn’t the CIA go in there and clean out all sensitive document and material?