APNewsBreak: No 'stand down' order in Benghazi
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) The testimony of nine military officers undermines contentions by Republican lawmakers that a "stand-down order" 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.
The "stand-down" theory centers on a Special Operations team of four a detachment leader, a medic, a communications expert and a weapons operator with his foot in a cast who were stopped from flying from Tripoli to Benghazi after the attacks of Sept. 11-12, 2012, had ended. Instead, they were 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.
Transcripts of hours of closed-door interviews with the military leaders by the House Armed Services and Oversight and Government Reform committees were made public for the first time on Wednesday. The Associated Press had reviewed the material ahead of its release.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the Oversight panel, has suggested Hillary Rodham Clinton gave the order, though as secretary of state at the time, she was not in the military chain of command.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-no-stand-down-order-benghazi
randys1
(16,286 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)I just sent the entire story in an email to My Favorite Wingnut with the caption "I bet your lips get tired before you finish reading this."
randys1
(16,286 posts)complicated as to why, but i cant
i dont want to either
i dont want to live where i do either, too many of them
Turbineguy
(37,361 posts)about $40 million to go to make this investigation as expensive as White Water.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)As someone who watched clips and the live broadcasts of the Joe McCarthy so called hearings. Something I noticed that everyone should look and listen to. This Issa jerk is using the same phrases and methods as old Tail Gunner Joe. Through in a Nixon character,and we will be complete. 1954 all over. Sad,we don't have a Edward R. Morrow to call this POS out.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)IkeRepublican
(406 posts)He's going to run this Benghazi/IRS thing until November 2016.
Count on it.
EEO
(1,620 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Read as: "Proves once again that Republicans are liars".
frylock
(34,825 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Will they apologize to the families for politicizing their loved ones deaths?
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)in which the transcripts will conveniently not be made available. Go figure...