[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Media Cover-up of Benghazigate

[Hanna548]

I have a question. This attack was on the embassy. Several reasons have been put forth as to why, BUT, the terrorists were firing on the annex with a gun that killed Tyrone Woods. C Herradge, of FOX, says that gun has a plate that has to be set in the ground in order to use the gun. She also said she had been told that plate has to be set in the daytime, which means they determined that they were going to be firing on not just the embassy but also the annex many hours before they attacked the embassy.

How does that square up?

Also, how did all those people get to the annex and what finally made the attack on the annex to stop?

[Doogle]

...the only fog around is in Odungo’s head

[Ann Archy]

First question.....WHY was Stevens in Benghazi with NO security except Sean Smith???? And on 9-11 when the consulate had already been hit twice!!!

[nuconvert]

This statement by Obama is his biggest mistake in the cover-up. I think it’s going to turn out to be an absolute LIE that he issued a directive. Unfortunately, it’s not going to happen until after the election.

[Diogenesis]

The ABSENCE of security implies Obama-the-Undocumented
ordered the hit on the Ambassador.

[”no loose ends” for Traitor Obama’s weapons transfer
to al Qaeda, of 20000 MANPADS to take out
all American jets in the future].

[RoosterRedux]

bfl

[CPT Clay]

Who issued the order to “Stand Down” ?????

[HomeAtLast]

“In the White House, group-think leads to the mistaken assumption that the attackers are a spontaneous mob.”

Incidentally, in Newspeak, the word “spontaneous” has been drafted into new service. It now means “we didn’t see it coming.” And meanwhile, the word “investigation” is seeing use where once the word “stonewalling” was employed.

[Travis McGee]

It all boils down to a key factor which is granting

CROSS-BORDER AUTHORITY.

Everything I have read and seen so far is still confirming my initial thinking on the matter, going way back to my days as a NavSpecWar officer who took a SEAL det to Beirut a long time ago.

Once the alarm is sent from Benghazi, dozens of HQs are notified and are in the loop in real time, including AFRICOM and EURCOM, both located in Germany.

Without waiting for orders, they begin planning and executing rescue operations, including getting air support over Benghazi ASAP. But one thing they CANNOT DO without explicit orders from the POTUS is cross an international border. That is the big "red line."

All POTUS has to do is NOT grant cross-border authority, and the entire rescue (already in progress) must stop in its tracks. Ships can loiter on station, but planes fall out of the sky, so they must be redirected to an air base (Sigonella Sicily) to await the POTUS decision on granting CBA. If it never comes, the men in Behghazi must rely only on assets already "in country" in Libya, such as the Tripoli QRF and the Predators.

(And possibly AC-130s that might already have been in Libya: they were last year, but their location on 9-11-2012 is unknown. If they were "in country" but were prevented from firing, that is another situation.)

So if at the 5pm DC time meeting with Panetta and Biden, Obama said, "No outside military action," meaning no CBA will be granted, then THAT IS IT. Case closed.

That constitutes "standing orders" all the way down the chain of command via Panetta to Ham and the subordinate commands trying to rescue the men in Benghazi.

If Obama then goes upstairs to the family quarters to watch TV or sleep, or otherwise makes himself "unavailable," then his last standing orders will stand until he changes them, even if he goes to sleep until the morning of 9-12. Nobody in the chain of command below him can countermand his "standing orders" not to send military forces from outside of Libya into Libyan air space.

Nobody.

Personally, I think he left "no outside miltary intervention, no cross-border authority" standing orders, and then he went to bed. Damn him to hell.

(And to me, the most damning aspect of all is that Obama went to bed while his Ambassador was still missing and presumed kidnapped by Al Queda. Ambassador Stevens might have been on a Youtube video pleading for his life, ready to get the Nick Berg/Danny Pearl "intro to jihad" treatment, and Obama WENT TO BED to rest up for his much more important fund raiser in Las Vegas!)