Details of the Benghazi debacle continue to leak out despite the best efforts of the Obama administration and State Controlled Media. In the latest installment from The New York Post we find that not only did The Obama-Fuhrer know about what was going on, not only did he lie about the attack being caused by a YouTube video that no one had ever actually seen. Now we find out that our people called for help three times and were denied that help each and every time. We find that we had forces ready to go who could have been there in short order. Those military people wanted to go and help, but were told to stand down. Obama ignored the 3:00 a.m. phone call and let our people die a horrible and pointless death.
And then he went off on a fabulous Vegas vacation fundraiser.
Details continue to leak, but it’ll be hard to top the bombshell from Fox News at week’s end reporting that repeated urgent requests for military help during the attack were summarily denied — for hours.
In those hours, former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was killed after he chose to disobey an order to “stand down” — and rushed to aid his fellow Americans.
This is not explained by the “fog of war” excuse so lamely offered by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — or the “Monday-morning quarterbacking” whining of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
It’s well established that the Benghazi consulate had been denied adequate security in the days leading up to the attack. But the new report suggests an astonishing lack of competence, or maybe it was cowardice, as a US ambassador and his team were coming under a well-coordinated terrorist attack.
Special-ops teams and air cover were readily available, and could’ve been on the scene in less than two hours. (The attack lasted for more than six hours.)
In fact, two surveillance drones were deployed — both capable of relaying real-time visuals of what was happening. But urgent requests for help were rejected — even when Woods and two others radioed that they had a laser fixed on the terrorists who were firing mortars and called in their coordinates.
