Oct 7, 2012 - GretaWire: Check out the email I just received from FNC’s Chad Pergram
Urgent: Fox Exclusive: Chaffetz returns from Libya after fact-find mission ahead of Wednesday hearing on 9-11 attacks
Per Pergram-Capitol Hill
I’ve just spoken with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT, pronounced CHAY-fetz), chair of the House Oversight subcommittee looking into the 9-11 attacks in Libya. That panel holds a hearing on the subject Wednesday.
Chaffetz travelled with Gen. Carter Ham, the head of Africom (The US Command over Africa) in Tripoli. Had hoped to go to Benghazi but it is too dangerous.
Chaffetz says it was clear those on the ground there were asking for more support to secure the building in Beghaniz It was denied. They asked for more personnel. They asked for more personnel and were denied.
Chaffetz:
“Rather than letting security dictate security, they let politics dictate security.”
Chaffetz also tells an interesting story about the US Embassy in Tripoli.
He says the south end of the complex backs up to a private home and a yard. They had put a ladder up against this wall. The person who lived there would put up a ladder and dump his garbage in on the property of the embassy. He says there was no barbed wire.
He says the US let them dump garbage there just because they wanted to be a good neighbor.
Chaffetz says the idea that protests were spurred by the video is dubious at best.
Chad Pergram
FOX News
Senior Producer for Capitol Hill
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Of COURSE O ordered them to stand down. That’s why he couldn’t look the parent of a dead hero in the eyes. O is just a disgusting liar that is incapable of taking responsibilities for his action. ANYONE that votes for him is a complete fool.
How many miles away is sigonella airbase? An hour away, by what? Boat, plane, helicopter...
Were their carriers off Libya that were even closer?
Allegedly, there are standing orders that exist for the case no commanding officer is available. If I’m not mistaken, it’s been indicated that Obama had standing orders in place.
Ref: Recent Rush Limbaugh Show with lengthy insider interview.
This blog speculates that Stevens was part of a covert effort to get former Libyan weapons into the hands of Syrian “rebels”. But, that Iran or Russia didn’t want that to happen, and so formed an “nation state” attack on the facility.
We didn’t send a rescue because we were afraid of a full scale war with Iran. I think that is what he is saying.
Either that or we feared that the forces were planning to ambush the rescue forces and create a Black Hawk Down repeat. So we did nothing instead to cover up the covert arms smuggling operation and prevent an embarrassing episode for Obama right before the election.
Not sure if this is credible.
The hidden real truth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951729/posts
The current crop of amateurs in charge of our nation are the 50-year product of our bereft culture....too many cartoons, too much Ritalin, a stunted education, emasculated males and a lack of morals....the result: a generation of incompetents who can’t manage their way out of a wet paper bag.
The indecisive excuse for not responding immediately to the Benghazi raid is propaganda. Government has contingency plans for everything. All they had to do was execute the procedure correctly. Leon Peonetta’s excuse of “not being able to access the threat” is painfully wrong.
This contradicts Obama’s answer at the presidential debate where he said it was the first of three things he did. He also said this to the Denver reporter.
President and Panetta had a previously scheduled meeting for 5 pm on 9/11/12. That was during the middle of the attack. Obama was likely advised earlier but we know at the very least these two men were together in the White House at this time.
bfl