Yes, they rushed. Woods and his cohorts rushed to the compound which was 1.5 miles away. It took them 25 minutes. And they had to disobey orders to go. When they returned to the unsafe house, they waited for hours for military assistance. Does the CIA have no equipment for taking out targets? Or does the military usually aid in such?
No matter how you slice it, this was a fubar months in the making, and someone should have already been fired. Unless the responsible party is the tea sipper in chief.
The story says the boots on the ground made their own decisions throughout the night with no interference from Washington. Duh. The agents in Libya whether in Tripoli or Benghazi were totally on their own. Their cries for help were ignored by Washington.
Ok let me try to understand, they were sent to help the people at the annex? They get to the annex and find out that thirty people are at the safe house. They are told don’t go per Fox. So what was the plan? To clean up any looae ends at the annex. Think about it they were ordered not to help the safe house.
They charter a plane? We have assets 2 hours away that don’t need clearance. Why charter a plane? This appears to be an operation that happened and was controlled by someone who didn’t want any other branch involved.