Looks like it was pre-ordained by the 7:30PM White House meeting:
With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items focused on a YouTube video, and others containing the phrases "[i]f any deployment is made," and "Libya must agree to any deployment," and "[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go to either Tripoli or Benghazi." [pg. 115]It might not be the exact wording "stand down," but it sure as heckfire had that result.
WHO PARTICIPATED IN THAT 7:30 PM MEETING? BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS!!!
Thank you for that clarification. The question is, who put those three items in the action-items list?
Yep. Instead of taking responsibility and giving the order to permit the crossing of the border, Obama pushed the responsibilitgy off onto the Libyans. It’s not his fault, it was Libya’s fault.
It was also his way of dumping it onto Hillary since it would then be up to her to find and persuade the right Libyans to give permission in order to then ask Obama for the CBA.
Obama didn’t give a crap whether or not the right libyan oficials could be contacted in time.
But the pubbies will not press the CBA point because he’s the first black president, he’s on the way out,... and they are only interested in Hillary for the election.
The term “stand down order” has been used to describe multiple orders/non-orders. My question about a “stand down order” concerns the very first one.
When the mission, consulate, whatever you want to call the place where the ambassador was first came under attack, certain people at the “CIA annex”, who were ready to run to the sound of the guns were told, by phone, not to do so. They were ordered to “stand down.” This information was reported by Katherine Herridge as coming from “people on the ground.”
Who was it that gave that order to NOT go to the aid of the ambassador? This was before Stevens was determined to be “missing”, before the 7:30 PM WH meeting and before any US military assets were ordered mustered.
My second question is WHY were there some 30-40 people at this “CIA annex”? What was their mission? WHAT were they doing there?