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As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.
The revelation appears to contradict testimony Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave lawmakers in 2013, when he said there was no time to get forces to the scene in Libya, where four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
“I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton],” reads the email, from Panetta’s chief of staff Jeremy Bash. “After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.”
" ... we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.”
- Jeremy Bash, Pentagon chief of staff
The email was sent out at 7:19 p.m. ET on Sept. 11, 2012, in the early stages of the eight-hour siege that also claimed the lives of Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALs, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, private CIA contractors who raced to the aid of embattled State Department workers.
Although the email came after the first wave of the attack at the consulate, it occurred before a mortar strike on the CIA annex killed Woods and Doherty.
originally posted by: amazing
That's still unclear. As in, did those assets that were spinning get moving and how far away were they?
If they did indeed get going and were too far away to intervene promptly...That's my question. Did they go and how far away were they?
“After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.”
As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.
originally posted by: BubbaJoe
All of this right wing outrage over the death of 4 Americans, where is the outrage for all those that Bush 1, Bush 2, and Cheney killed, maimed, and wounded in their phony wars, where is that outrage? Oh I know, they were white republicans so it doesn't count.
originally posted by: BubbaJoe
All of this right wing outrage over the death of 4 Americans, where is the outrage for all those that Bush 1, Bush 2, and Cheney killed, maimed, and wounded in their phony wars, where is that outrage? Oh I know, they were white republicans so it doesn't count.
So if they were democrats, you think Obama and Clinton would've sent the rescue forces?
originally posted by: neo96
originally posted by: BubbaJoe
All of this right wing outrage over the death of 4 Americans, where is the outrage for all those that Bush 1, Bush 2, and Cheney killed, maimed, and wounded in their phony wars, where is that outrage? Oh I know, they were white republicans so it doesn't count.
Well the VIce President, and both secretaries of state voted for it.
Biden,Kerry, and Clinton.
To answer prolly cause them evil righties don't have false outrage.
that Bush and Cheney lied to the American public to start that war?