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I could have sworn that someone said no one was ordered to stand down because there was no one in the area.
Whistle-blower: Benghazi rescue team told to stand down before second deadly attack | WashingtonExaminer.com
We even have a name for a source within the State Department, he was the number 2 man in Libya.
Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told "you can't go" to Benghazi during attacks - CBS News
Not to worry though, we know who to blame for no one talking about it.
Benghazi returning as big scandal - Salon.com
American Special Forces soldiers were preparing to board the C-130 that would fly them on a mission to rescue Americans under attack by terrorists in Benghazi on Sept. 11 last year, but they were stopped by a last-minute order from somebody higher up in the U.S. government, House investigators have learned.
So Lieutenant Colonel Gibson, who is the SOCAFRICA commander, his team, you know, they were on their way to the vehicles to go to the airport to get on the C‑130 when he got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, you cant go now, you dont have authority to go now, Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee during an interview last month, The Washington Examiner has learned.
The committee released excerpts of the interview ahead of a congressional hearing that will take place on Wednesday.
Whistle-blower: Benghazi rescue team told to stand down before second deadly attack | WashingtonExaminer.com
We even have a name for a source within the State Department, he was the number 2 man in Libya.
The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command South Africa.The account from Gregory Hicks is in stark contrast to assertions from the Obama administration, which insisted that nobody was ever told to stand down and that all available resources were utilized. Hicks gave private testimony to congressional investigators last month in advance of his upcoming appearance at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
According to excerpts released Monday, Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA commander Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound "when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, 'you can't go now, you don't have the authority to go now.' And so they missed the flight ... They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it."
No assistance arrived from the U.S. military outside of Libya during the hours that Americans were under attack or trapped inside compounds by hostile forces armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and AK-47 rifles.
Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told "you can't go" to Benghazi during attacks - CBS News
Not to worry though, we know who to blame for no one talking about it.
Benghazi returning as big scandal - Salon.com