Posted on 11/02/2012 2:56:17 AM PDT by Libloather
U.S. says CIA responded within 25 minutes to Benghazi attack
Intelligence officials dispute a report by Fox News that officers in Libya were ordered to 'stand down' after the diplomatic compound came under attack.
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
November 2, 2012
WASHINGTON — CIA security officers in a Benghazi post responded within 25 minutes to a call for help from a nearby State Department compound after it came under attack Sept. 11, officials said Thursday, seeking to refute a Fox News report asserting that CIA managers ordered them to stay put.
In releasing a detailed timeline of CIA actions that night, senior intelligence officials have put aside long-standing concerns about revealing the extent of the agency's presence in Benghazi in order to push back against what officials say are baseless allegations that aid was withheld.
"At every level in the chain of command, from the senior officers in Libya to the most senior officials in Washington, everyone was fully engaged in trying to provide whatever help they could," a senior intelligence official said in a statement. "There were no orders to anybody to stand down in providing support."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“Takes some gall to now claim they were “sent”.”
The new underpants are just as “poopy” as the old ones were.
The LA Times like the NYT and all MSM have become irrelevant.
Conservative websites are the winners and the truth cannot be hidden from or spun to the masses anymore.
Maybe the order to “Secure those Americans!” was
given to Al-Qaeda!
Fox News is shaking the bushes to see what falls out. If the CIA did respond, who didn’t? It’s getting close to finding the culprits who wanted Ambassador Stevens dead.
Does anyone remember Ron Brown?
Just what we need another person to fall on their sword.
LIARS ALL
Doesn't everyone dead from a 'plane crash' come with a bullet hole in their skull?
Vince Foster
also the secretary of Navy-suicide??
I hope you are right, but most likely he will “skate”. We have gutless leaders in Senate. (remember slick willy? )
He may be speaking truth, it is called “double-talk” Slick Willy” was a master at it. (redefine a word, you can mean anything)
Don't expect justice on this.....I hope I am wrong!
So why was an Admiral and a General replaced when they tried to send in help???? Hmmmm??? The media seem very quiet about this.
You had an ambassador and communication professional (Smith) who were guarded by the ‘February 17th Martyrs Brigade’.
Were they trafficking heavy arms to Syria? Probably. We’re they doing something hinky? Definitely.
Was what they were doing likely the province of the CIA? Most definitely.
Had people, including Stevens, raised alarm bells about the lack of security? Yup!
Was the CIA looking in on outright incompetence, while literally within earshot of rifle fire? Yes!
This all display Obama’s ideology, long held paranoia and bias world view. I’m sure Obama and his people thought what Steven’s was doing was sexy, because it was risky. Of coarse, a leftist can’t trust rank and file CIA, right? The CIA killed Che, Obama’s hero, Obama is the self styled Che of the new Islamic caliphate.
Again, you can’t trust the CIA, that is until your getting your ass shot off in a third world hell hole and your leftist party friends leave you for dead.
Stevens and Smith were expendable to Obama, but they weren’t expendable to Woods and Doherty.
The media is in on treason.
LLS
“Obama is the self styled Che of the new Islamic caliphate.”
Merely self-styled or was he groomed? Is Obama’s presidency the enemy’s follow-up to 9/11?
There is enough BS in this story to fertilize every single American home garden for the next year!!!
WALL ST jOURNAL had long article today that is pure administration spin...saying, oh gosh, the state dept didn’t know what the CIA was doing and State and Admin thought the CIA had enough security and oh, gosh, it was all so secret and that’s why this all happened...
and I guess, these things just get so confusing between the CIA and the state Dept and well, golly “what were we to do if we weren’t being told”????
another possibility in all this is that this was perhaps a deal to get the Ambassador “kidnapped” and trade him for the Blind Sheik—a plot that went wrong.
Yep, you’ve got that right. They have been committing treason ever since the nobama began running of office in IL.
They have kept his past secret, and they are still covering his incompetence. I personally do not believe he is an American, even though he did live with his grandparents in Hawaii.
“The team arrived around midnight but got bogged down at the airport. Ultimately, it learned that “the ambassador was almost certainly dead” and headed to the agency facility “to assist with the evacuation,” the official said.”
So they “stood down”.
Typical don’t read beyond the headlines. The real test is on the scene not some Clintonian “ at the airport in 25 minutes” therefore we were there.
Similar to Billy Jeffs “ as long as someone is anywhere in the building “ I
Wasn’t alone with Monica.
He is all that you say and his soul is black and he is of evil.
LLS
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