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Testimony Reveals What Military Did While Benghazi Post Burned
News Max ^ | July 12 2014 | News Max

Posted on 07/12/2014 8:50:57 AM PDT by PoloSec

One by one, behind closed doors in Washington, D.C.,, military officers explained what they did and didn't do the night the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, burned.

Together their 30 hours of testimony to congressional investigators gives the fullest account yet of the military's response to the surprise attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans the night of Sept. 11, 2012, and early the next morning.

Transcripts of the interviews, with some names and classified information blacked out, were released Wednesday

The nine officers, including retired Gen. Carter Ham, then the head of the military's U.S. Africa Command, described making on-the-fly decisions with only sparse information about the crisis unfolding at a diplomatic post and the nearby CIA compound.

None of them was in Benghazi. The closest? Some were 600 miles away in Tripoli, the Libyan capital; others gave orders from command headquarters in Germany or Washington.

They did not witness what went on in the White House or at the State Department. Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have testified about Benghazi. More hearings are coming.

The nine officers shed light on the nature of the attacks; speculation that the military was ordered to "stand down" from helping Americans; suggestions that the U.S. should have rushed jets or a special operations team to Benghazi; and early misperceptions that the attack began as a protest over an anti-Islam video.

Some lingering questions about the Benghazi attacks and what the officers told the House Armed Services Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this year:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi
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To: benghaziistreason
There is some good material in the book Blood Feud about Benghazi as well. Klein accepts the theory that this was all about getting weapons to the people in Syria that Obama wanted to help (illegally).

Obama tried to get Hillary to do the talk shows the following Sunday. Apparently Hillary almost agreed but Bill talked her out of it.

41 posted on 07/12/2014 3:46:22 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Jedidah

I agree 100% with your post.


42 posted on 07/12/2014 4:13:05 PM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: benghaziistreason

Welcome aboard.

GO GOWDY!


43 posted on 07/12/2014 4:32:11 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: stanne

You can’t expect military brass to merely inconvenience themselves over a few perks, much less their lives. And to an even lesser degree, politicians. It is the job of young military recruits to put their lives on the line. It is the job of military brass and politicians to praise them for doing it.


44 posted on 07/12/2014 4:56:51 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

Rick Perry, military brass, citizens, dads, Hollywood writers take notice, young recruits and all Americans are running out of role ideals


45 posted on 07/12/2014 5:04:33 PM PDT by stanne
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To: detch; PoloSec

AND, more CORRECTLY......WHAT was three dozens+ gagged CIAs doing in Benghazi tooooo??? That’s the HOT potato not asked!!!


46 posted on 07/12/2014 7:50:17 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: az_gila
Has this ever been confirmed?

I heard a congressman on the radio say that there IS a video and that he had seen a small part of it but not the whole thing.....yet.

47 posted on 07/13/2014 5:33:10 AM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: PoloSec

IF the top brass was NOT told to ‘stand down’ they need to resign. Really, why put up with the costs of having a military if they can’t respond to something this simple.


48 posted on 07/13/2014 5:53:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (A ship once out of port is hard to capture:know this now before it is too late. - Solon)
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To: MeshugeMikey

HA!

The look on that second drummer’s face as he spies the flag.


49 posted on 07/13/2014 9:14:09 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

and that second drummers part of the original image ..and was not altered to have that expression ...oddly enough.


50 posted on 07/13/2014 12:38:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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51 posted on 07/13/2014 12:43:48 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Safetgiver

“Obama to capture the Ambassador and trade him for (Guantanamo prisoners? The blind sheikh?) in order to look heroic.”

You know, evidence for the theory that it was a botched prisoner swap could be the way that the admin acted with the Bergdahl exchange.

Obama acted like he was being a hero is doing the exchange, as if it was rehearsed.

Nobody celebrated for the idiotic exchange of a traitor for five top Taliban generals. But, you can imagine that people would celebrate if a group of captured Benghazi personnel including Stevens was “saved” by Obama.

Maybe Berdahl was the back up plan?


52 posted on 07/13/2014 8:01:04 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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