The U.S. military never attempted to deploy any assets or troops to Benghazi during the 13-hour attack on the American consulate in 2012, according to a supplemental report released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday morning.
Although Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has said he ordered three support teams to deploy to Benghazi about two hours into the attack, the committee said it found no evidence that these forces were mobilized until hours after the attack ended. Military assets, such as fighter planes and armed drones never left the ground, according to the report.
“We are now convinced, contrary to the administration’s public claim that the military did not have time to get to Benghazi, that the administration never launched men or machines to help directly in the fight,” wrote Reps. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) and Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) in the analysis. “That is very different from what we have been told to date. And the evidence is compelling.”
The congressmen issued their assessment as a supplement to the long-awaited report by the Benghazi Committee. According to the analysis, the Obama administration was fixated on how to frame the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack to the public, and spent little time trying to coordinate a military response while the attack was ongoing.
In the hours and days that followed the assault, Secretary Hillary Clinton, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, and other administration officials publicly suggested that the attack spontaneously spun out of a protest over an anti-Islam video.
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3 comments:
Darn, in thirteen hours, I could have pulled together an armed posse of 50, bought airline tickets and flown to Benghazi and put up some kind of fight before it was over, maybe saved a few American lives.
HILLARY IS A LIAR! Islama Obama is a coward.
They weren't military or intelligence failures-they were the intentional actions of the enemies calling the shots (i.e. clinton and osama). The failure falls at the feet of the ignorant lemmings who voted for the muslim in the White House.
Deliberately (!) LIED to the American people! Knowingly misled the families of those men in order to further their POLITICAL ends.
I want to puke.
The Ambassador was castrated and drag naked around the compound. And believe it or not, the president didn't even attend the next days intelligence breifing!
This administration is THE most bumbling, incompetent, deceptive, shortsighted, criminally stupid group to have ever run the country. And 40% of the population think they are superheroes.
Rice should be fired and hillary should be indicted.
God, we are in deep trouble.
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