Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi:

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Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi:
Aide

Fox News Channel reported Friday that American officials in the compound repeatedly asked for military help during the assault but were rebuffed by CIA higher-ups. At a press briefing one day earlier, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, asked why there had not been a quicker, more forceful response to the assault, complained of "Monday-morning quarterbacking." Panetta said he and top military commanders had judged it too dangerous to send troops to the eastern Libyan city without a clearer picture of events on the ground.

But Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, in a post published Friday, doubted Panetta's explanation and said the fault must lie with Obama himself. "Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No," Kristol wrote. "It would have been a presidential decision."

"He's wrong," said Vietor.

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Foxnews right wing propaganda.and Conservative rag Weekly Standard.

You REALLY buy Panetta's excuse that they didn't act because they didn't have enough information about what was happening on the ground in Libya? Gee, they only had reports coming in from the embassy, reports coming in from the Annex, live video feeds from both places and live video feeds from two different drones circling overhead. The only event that got more coverage than this one is the Super Bowl. It's hard to imagine how the Obama Administration could have had MORE information than what they did.

That excuse by Panetta is one of the more pathetic ones I've ever heard.

Let's see, the CIA's job is to collect information so that the President and his staff can make correct decisions. After all it was the CIA that put together Obama's hit list of whom to kill. So if Panetta's excuse is that they didn't have enough information should not someone's head roll? But of course not this is a Democrat administration and sooner or later they will get around to blaming Bush or the Republicans for their lack of leadership.