Stoned perhaps? Who knows? Or the timeline might be wrong, but I’m starting to believe he did go to bed early thinking it was no biggy and no one woke him up until after the fact. I know that sounds impossible but I’m beginning to think it true. Maybe V.J. blocked the info from him? I just don’t know...
...shh, don’t wake fearless leader, Normandy is being attacked......opps...Benghazi
There was a caller to Rush Limbaugh’s show who detailed the protocols for what happens when there is a crisis - said he might get into trouble for saying anything but did it anyway. When the alert comes in, there is somebody who has the duty of getting in Obama’s face within 10 minutes and physically telling him that there’s been an attack and the Ambassador’s whereabouts are unknown. There is no way that Obama did not know what was going on.
If the attack began about 9pm Libya time and that was about 4pm DC Daylight time, that’s about a 5-hour difference. If Woods died at 4am Libya time that would be about 11pm DC time. During that time between 4-11pm, Obama spent at least part of that time meeting with Panetta and spent time watching the drone’s video feed. All the while refusing to let us even move our assets into the area so they would be ready if we needed them.
Although we have yet to know where the drones came from, and whether they were armed. Doesn’t make sense for Woods to be laser-painting the target and sending coordinates if there wasn’t airpower to lock in the coordinates - as I understand from what military people here and elsewhere have said. Somebody suggested that he could have painted the target to try to get the bad guys to think they were in danger and leave, but I don’t know if the bad guys would have a way of knowing they had been painted. Somebody else suggested that he painted them in case help eventually came, but especially if it was a residential area it wouldn’t make sense to paint somebody’s position in case there was help later, when the target could move in the meantime and hitting the earlier target could mean civilian casualties.