Anyway...
"What difference does it make?!?"
Posted on 04/29/2013 6:26:39 PM PDT by crosslink
The U.S. government had the ability to “react and respond” to the Benghazi terrorist attack and could have had forces on the ground before the second wave of the assault began, a special operator with knowledge of the response told Fox News in an exclusive interview. Due to the explosive nature of his allegations, the special ops member asked to remain anonymous.
“I know for a fact that C 110 the UComm CIF was doing a training exercise, not in the region of northern Africa, but in Europe. And they had the ability to react and respond,” he told Fox News.
The C 110 is a 40-man Special Ops force capable of rapid response and deployment, a group trained specifically for an event like the Benghazi attack, Fox News reports. The unit was training in Croatia on Sept. 11, 2012, just 3.5 hours away from Benghazi.
“They would have been there before the second attack,” the anonymous special operator said. “They would have been there at a minimum to provide a quick reaction force that could facilitate their exfil out of the problem situation.”
He continued: “Nobody knew how it was going to develop, and you hear a whole bunch of people and a whole bunch of advisors say, ‘Hey, we wouldn’t have sent them there because the security was unknown situation.’ If it’s an unknown situation, at a minimum you send forces there to facilitate the exfil or medical injuries. We could have sent a C 130 to Benghazi to provide medical evacuation for the injured.”
The special operator said there are members of special ops and other officials who are still active and involved in the situation. “They would be decapitated if they came forward with information that could affect high-level commanders,” he added.
While he says he doesn’t “blame them for not coming forward,” the special operator said members of the community feel betrayed and believe the betrayal goes all the way to the top. Further, the Special Ops community feels like the Americans in Benghazi were left to fend for themselves.
The White House has said from the beginning that there were no forces available to assist Americans in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
Trey Gowdy says their time is coming quick and fast! I just hope he is right!
This won’t be carried by the MSM. They’re going down before Obama does.
This is worthless unless the Special Ops guy is willing to allow his name to be used, and become a whistleblower. Otherwise it’s just an unsubstantiated allegation.
"What difference does it make?!?"
Yep, it will take those on the inside (DOS, DOD, CIA & FBI) to take this traitorous event where it needs to go. Here’s Cheering...Push em out, push em out, all the way out!!!!!!
Yeah sure, Noob. You’re a “retired colonel” my ass. From what KFC? I can’t imagine any present or former military person dismissing the deaths of Americans - - including a couple of Seals who themselves responded to try to save people - - by saying, “Get over it.” You ‘re a loser.
0dumb0, Panetta, Hitlery, Holder.... these sonofabitches THRIVE on not being held accountable for anything, past, present or future. Like I have said before, 0dumb0 could rape, kill & roast a young girl on national TV in front of 300 million people and he would STILL get no less than 49% of the vote, with a few squishy "independent" who would vote for 0dumb0 in any case.
The only thing that will get the attention of these traitorous bastards is for CW2 to commence. I really do believe that TX, OK and approx 12-14 other Southern & Western states need to secede in order to re-establish a conservative, patriotic, Christian nation. Let the liberal socialist bastards have their own country -- NE states, IL, MN (my state), CA, WA & OR. We get everything else!
Perhaps it’s Colonel Sanders... he is protecting his chickens...
Retired Colonel, yah right, just joined FR on April 13, 2013, and immediately leaps to the defense of 4 infamous traitors - 0dumbo, Clinton, Panetta & Holder.... who all looked the other way when decisive action could have & should have been taken. What would the partisan hack media and demoRATs and liberal “military experts” have said if this happened to a Republican administration? They would be screaming their lungs out and demanding impeachment RIGHT NOW! Take your trolling back to DU!
When faced with embarrassing stuff, left wing elite liberal media’s usual response to the rest of US
“Move on, you plebes, there is nothing here”
I have it that General Ham was relieved in real time during the event.
Beyond that no specifics. But it would make sense that he was willing to complete a mission he had ordered even in the face of different orders from Washington.
Something was on station that night and in place for immediate action. Targets were illuminated, giving up position.
Not only did they leave them there. The assets were overhead and in place.
Sickening.
Drawn and quartering is starting to sound like a reasonable punishment.
Being questioned under oath won’t matter, he’ll lie and get away with it, and Congress won’t pursue the matter any further.
Welcome to FreeRepublic, “RetiredColonel”.
We have another newborn on this page.
I would like to see your source for that.
General Ham Is Still Commander of U.S. Africa Command November 3, 2012
That article was published on November 3, 2012 and Gen. Ham was still listed as the commander of AFRICOM on the AFRICOM website for months after that.
Interesting that RetiredColonel made his comments at post #37, and zero replies to all the flames he’s received since. I smell a troll.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/robbins-report/2012/oct/28/general-losing-his-job-over-benghazi/
Obama: our first Yellow president...
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