Benghazi ping.
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Begs the question of just why they stepped down. If they’d done what they could would they regret it?
Tripoli rescue team told to stand down.
Hicks: Special Forces Furious Upon Being Told to Stand Down video at link"According to Benghazi whistleblower Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission in Libya, special forces were furious when they were told to stand down during the Benghazi attack. I will quote Lieutenant Colonel Gibson, Hicks told the House Oversight Committee in hearings today, He said, This is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more balls than somebody in the military."
This might be considered a stand down too.
Whistle-blower: Botched talking points hurt FBI probe of Benghazi attack"Another whistle-blower questioned Wednesday why more military assets were not deployed sooner during the Benghazi terror attack. Mark Thompson, a former Marine and official with the State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau, said he was rebuffed by the White House when he asked for a specialized team -- known as a FEST team -- to be deployed. This is a unit made of special operations personnel, diplomatic security, intelligence and other officers."
Here is a third way a "stand down" policy was implemented IMO.
Blow-by-Blow: How Obama & Hillary Left Americans to Die"Nordstrom further testified in writing that Hillary Clinton waived security requirements for the Benghazi consulate despite high and critical threat levels in the six categories of security standards established under the Overseas Security Policy Board and the Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act of 1999. The waiver can only be authorized by the Secretary of State, who cannot delegate that responsibility to someone else. If the Secretary of State did not waive these requirements, who did so by ordering occupancy of the facilities in Benghazi and Tripoli? Nordstrom wrote."
The only thing repubicans are going to attempt to counter at all is conservatives.
For reasons unknown, the White House sent U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice on five Sunday shows with those talking points and the rest is history. The talking points were so weak that Rice immediately raised suspicions that the administration was hiding something important. (She instantly earned Pinocchios.) She also repeatedly referenced the supposed impact of an anti-Islam video, which was never a part of the talking points.
Of course there were "stand down" orders... Panetta admitted as much at the time. The REASON that Rice told the lie is also obvious to anyone who cares to see the facts:
Obama was campaigning on Al Qaida being defeated. There was, NO WAY, he could have people knowing AQ had killed our Ambassador a few weeks before the election.
Media Matters is a Nazi Soros operation.
The Washington Post is a Soros useful idiot operation.
Pointless to read this diatribe past “Republican jihad”. They’d never call abortion the “Democrats’ Holocaust”.