Posted on 01/13/2014 3:32:32 PM PST by jazusamo
Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense officials -- headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama -- were informed that the event was a "terrorist attack," declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president's Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward.
Gen. Carter Ham, who at the time was head of AFRICOM, the Defense Department combatant command with jurisdiction over Libya, told the House in classified testimony last year that it was him who broke the news about the unfolding situation in Benghazi to then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The tense briefing -- in which it was already known that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens had been targeted and had gone missing -- occurred just before the two senior officials departed the Pentagon for their session with the commander in chief.
According to declassified testimony obtained by Fox News, Ham -- who was working out of his Pentagon office on the afternoon of Sept. 11 -- said he learned about the assault on the consulate compound within 15 minutes of its commencement, at 9:42 p.m. Libya time, through a call he received from the AFRICOM Command Center.
"My first call was to General Dempsey, General Dempsey's office, to say, 'Hey, I am headed down the hall. I need to see him right away,'" Ham told lawmakers on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on June 26 of last year. "I told him what I knew...
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[ Communists are taught to lie if it justified their cause. ]
Tacky-Yeah.....
Taquiya
Thank You, so much, for the compliment. My compliments to you also.
NEVER elect a democrat CIC.
I saw Gen Ham excerpts of testimony. Sounded like he was taking responsibility for not sending help. Also sounded like a cover-up.
originalbuckeye wrote:
“I saw Gen Ham excerpts of testimony. Sounded like he was taking responsibility for not sending help. Also sounded like a cover-up.”
Many thanks for that info!
How far up the chain of command does it go, I wonder?
The golf-wear photo was from 2011 when Barry had to be dragged back from the course to partake in witnessing the "Bin Laden Raid" which went down a couple of days after the WH posted the birth certificate forgery using our taxpayer funded computer servers. Wag that dog! Wag it, wag it, wag it!!!
I cannot think of one person in the Obama administration, as a Secretary of a department, as head of the military, as a spokesperson, head of DOJ, DOI, HHS, DHS, FDA, EPA, IRS, etc. and any of their top assistants, who has TOLD THE TRUTH AT A PRESS CONFERENCE, BEFORE A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, BEFORE A COURT, AND BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
I have more respect for the Communists that I have tangled with over the decades because they lie for an ideology. The Obama people lie for power, to cover Obama’s red ass, and to promote their agenda no matter who gets hurt or killed.
They are immoral, unethical and criminal. The NEW NORM for AMERICA under a Democrat Party dictatorship. (Remember, DeBlasio the Red is a Democrat. So is John Commie Conyers, Barbara the Red Lee, Jan Schakowsky the Red, Laura DeRosa the Connecticut Red, Pelosi the friends of Reds, etc).
Lying to them is the natural state of affairs, and the great unwashed, uneducated, and bought off Americans like it like that.
That’s why they want to restore the voting rights of convicted felons. They need more people without any morals.
Voter ID? We don’t need no voter id. Chavez didn’t have any. Stalin didn’t have any. Castro didn’t have any. Kim Mentally Ill and brood didn’t have any. So why should Obama and his marxist minions have any?
I was warned over 40 years ago by those who fled communism in East Germany, Hungary, Vietnam, Romania and Cuba, what to watch for. I’M SEEING EVERYTHING THEY SAID TO WATCH FOR AND WHICH WOULD HAPPEN.
The book “1984” will soon have a new edition and title cover. It will be “2014”.
It is here and Obama and his communists intend to make sure that it stays around like another “1000 Year Reich”.
Only a political uprising of American patriots of all kinds can turn the tide of authoritarian marxism that is now sweeping over our country. ORGANIZE, VOTE, EDUCATE!
What say NY Slimes?? This new info makes Hillary look incompetent.
Getting fired or prosecuted by this regime is a badge of honor.
Yeah, he is in the picture in such an area he could be disappeared if need be.
The media is more concerned with traffic in New Jersey.
But...but...but....Chris Christie! Road cones!
He's a very, very smart man.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, a first-term lawmaker with experience as an Iraq war veteran and Army reserve officer, pressed Ham further on the point, prodding the 29-year Army veteran to admit that "the nature of the conversation" he had with Panetta and Dempsey was that "this was a terrorist attack."
The transcript reads as follows:
WENSTRUP: "As a military person, I am concerned that someone in the military would be advising that this was a demonstration. I would hope that our military leadership would be advising that this was a terrorist attack."
HAM: "Again, sir, I think, you know, there was some preliminary discussion about, you know, maybe there was a demonstration. But I think at the command, I personally and I think the command very quickly got to the point that this was not a demonstration, this was a terrorist attack."
WENSTRUP: "And you would have advised as such if asked. Would that be correct?"
HAM: "Well, and with General Dempsey and Secretary Panetta, that is the nature of the conversation we had, yes, sir."
WESTRUP: "So no one from the military was ever advising, that you are aware of, that this was a demonstration gone out of control, it was always considered an attack -"
BRISTOL: "Yes, sir."
WENSTRUP: "-- on the United States?"
BRISTOL: "Yes, sir. ... We referred to it as the attack."
What bald-faced, lying tyrants!
They intentionally ran a disinformation campaign against the American people, were aided in it by the media, particularly Candy Crowley, and their ultimate response to the brutal deaths of 4 Americans, a couple of them heroes, was: “What difference does it make?”
A firing squad is too good for such traitors.
"The corrupt news media have their orders from the DNC and have carried out the undermining of the United States while watching Americans and hundreds of Mexican citizens be murdered. Thousands of our soldiers wounded or killed because of the democrat party support of the terrorists."
Traitorobama, Traitorhillary, and the fifth-column MSM gave aid and comfort to the enemy.
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