Here's the way the military mind works, CBJ7:
"Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi, when Gibons received a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, 'you can't go, you don't have the authority to go.' They were told not to board the flight."
It was a political decision not to let them go, CBJ7.
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
Not according to Col. Gibson:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...iven-benghazi/
Read it slow. Maybe you will get it this time. I've even put the important parts in 'tard size font for you dumbass. Anything else?
>>>There was no military “stand-down” order given the night of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi,
Libya, military officials told lawmakers late Wednesday, contradicting a
State Department official’s account of the event.
The lack of a U.S. military response to the hourslong assaults in which U.S. Ambassador
J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed has been a key point of contention for Republican lawmakers, who have criticized the
Obama administration’s handling of the attacks and their aftermath.
SPECIAL COVERAGE: Benghazi Attack Under Microscope
Reports of a military stand-down order have circulated almost since the night of the attacks, which unfolded in two stages over several hours at two locations — the U.S. diplomatic post and a nearby
CIA building, where survivors of the first assault took shelter.
Such reports increased earlier this year after congressional testimony from
Stevens‘ deputy,
Greg Hicks, who said that a site security team at the
U.S. Embassy in Tripoli had been ordered to stand down — that is, not to go to Benghazi and battle terrorists or rescue U.S. personnel.
Mr. Hicks noted that the site security team leader, Army
Lt. Col. S.E. Gibson, expressed frustration over being ordered to stand down.
But Col. Gibson said Wednesday that no stand-down order was given, according to the House Armed Services subcommittee on oversight and investigations. The subcommittee held a classified briefing with Col. Gibson; retired Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, former commander of U.S. Africa Command; and Navy Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Africa.
“Contrary to news reports, Gibson was not ordered to ‘stand down’ by higher command authorities in response to his understandable desire to lead a group of three other Special Forces soldiers to Benghazi,” the subcommittee said in a rare statement about a closed-door briefing.
Instead, the site security team was ordered to remain in Tripoli to defend the embassy and its staff in case terrorists also struck in the capital while the Benghazi post was under attack, and to assist the wounded who were being evacuated to Tripoli after the first phase of the fighting had ended, the statement said.
Col. Gibson “acknowledged that, had he deployed to Benghazi, he would have left Americans in Tripoli undefended. He also stated that, in hindsight, he would not have been able to get to Benghazi in time to make a difference, and as it turned out, his medic was needed to provide urgent assistance to survivors once they arrived in Tripoli,” the statement said.
The medic “saved the leg and probably the life” of one of the evacuated personnel, according to
Mr. Hicks‘ congressional testimony.
The revelation that there was no stand-down order is unlikely to blunt continuing Republican efforts to paint the attack as an avoidable failure by the
Obama administration and, in particular, by then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, tipped as a likely Democratic presidential candidate for 2016.
The
subcommittee’s statement also notes that there was a national security planning process underway for last year’s Sept. 11, 2001, anniversary to ensure that U.S. personnel and facilities abroad were safe. The planning was led by then-White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan, now
CIA director. The process, the White House said at the time, involved “numerous meetings to review security measures in place.”
“When questioned about this process today,” the
subcommittee said, “
Gen. Ham, the combatant commander responsible for one of the most volatile threat environments in the world, stated that neither he nor anyone working for him was consulted as part of the Brennan 9/11 planning process.”
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