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originally posted by: queenofswords
...... I were a family member of one of the fallen, and it can be proven that their lives were lost because of some miscommunication due to her not using the proper government channels of communication or that she was hiding something on purpose that she didn't want known. Our Freedom of Information access regarding Benghazi was compromised and/or delayed because of it.
This is another reason we need to get to the bottom of why she was not using proper government channels.
originally posted by: queenofswords
a reply to: jimmyx
No. Nothing has been totally proven.
This is not a dead horse no matter what some think and want to believe.
originally posted by: hellobruce
originally posted by: EternalSolace
denying permission to operational forces within 30 minutes of the area from rescuing them?
Care to show us a valid source showing exactly where and what kind of troops were 30 minutes away?
A small team of Special Forces operatives was ready to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi last year after Libyan insurgents attacked the U.S. mission there, but was told it was not authorized to board the flight by regional military commanders, according to a career State Department official scheduled to testify before Congress on Wednesday.
originally posted by: EternalSolace
It's around 635 miles from Tripoli to Benghazi. A C-130 cruises at around 336MPH. That team could have made it in just under 2 hours. Okay, thirty minutes is wrong. There was a team less than two hours away...
Military officers testified that there was no "stand-down order" that held back military assets that could have saved the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans killed at a diplomatic outpost and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya. Their testimony undercut the contention of Republican lawmakers.
The "stand-down" theory centers on a Special Operations team — a detachment leader, a medic, a communications expert and a weapons operator with his foot in a cast — that was stopped from flying from Tripoli to Benghazi after the attacks of Sept. 11-12, 2012, had ended. Instead, it was instructed to help protect and care for those being evacuated from Benghazi and from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.
The senior military officer who issued the instruction to "remain in place" and the detachment leader who received it said it was the right decision and has been widely mischaracterized. The order was to remain in Tripoli and protect some three dozen embassy personnel rather than fly to Benghazi some 600 miles away after all Americans there would have been evacuated. And the medic is credited with saving the life of an evacuee from the attacks.
The Special Operations detachment leader's name is omitted from the testimony transcript, but he previously has been identified as Lt. Col. S.E. Gibson. More than a year-and-a-half later, Gibson, who is now a colonel, agreed that staying in Tripoli was the best decision.
"It was not a stand-down order," he testified in March. "It was not, 'Hey, time for everybody to go to bed.' It was, you know, 'Don't go. Don't get on that plane. Remain in place.'"
"Initially, I was angry," Gibson said. "A tactical commander doesn't like to have those decisions taken away from him. But then once I digested it a little bit, then I realized, OK, maybe there was something else that was going on. Maybe I'm needed here for something else."
originally posted by: EternalSolace
It's around 635 miles from Tripoli to Benghazi. A C-130 cruises at around 336MPH. That team could have made it in just under 2 hours. Okay, thirty minutes is wrong. There was a team less than two hours away...
(CNSNews.com) - The House Select Committee on Benghazi will not subpoena Hillary Clinton's email server, because it can't, committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday. "Well our committee doesn't have the power -- under our rules, we don't have the power to seize a personal property like that.
"After careful deliberation and exhausting our other options, The Associated Press is taking the necessary legal steps to gain access to these important documents, which will shed light on actions by the State Department and former Secretary Clinton, a presumptive 2016 presidential candidate, during some of the most significant issues of our time," said Karen Kaiser, AP's general counsel.