So if he was NOT told to STAND DOWN, then why wasn't there a rescue attempt?
Two of the four people killed were rescuers.
The attack on the consulate was over in minutes. The CIA annex sent a rescue team as soon as they received word of the attack. They went to the consulate and picked up the dead, wounded, and survivors. None of the purported "Benghazi survivors" who have testified were actually at Benghazi.
The ambassador and a computer tech were killed in this first attack.
Additional rescuers arrived at the CIA annex after the initial rescue of the consulate. Two of these men were later killed in the second attack seven hours later.
So to say there was no rescue attempt is to have drank a lot of piss and not actually bothered to find out the facts.
They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it," Hicks said. Pressed on why, he said, "I guess they just didn't have the right authority from the right level."
Earlier this month, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress there was never a stand-down order.
They weren't told to stand down.
A 'stand down' means don't do anything," he said.
"They were told that the mission they were asked to perform was
not in Benghazi, but was at Tripoli airport."
Former US commander in Libya denies Army unit told to stand down during Benghazi attack | neurope.eu
OK... So they weren't told to "STAND DOWN" but were told their mission was not in Benghazi where Americans were being killed???
REALLY???? They were NOT to do anything about Benghazi for what reason???
Sounds like there is still a question WHY would this rescue team be told their mission was not in Benghazi when the people in Benghazi were BEGGING FOR HELP???
Who told the rescue team their mission was NOT IN BENGHAZI???
As has been explained many, many times, the second rescue team was not allowed to board a LIBYAN plane because permission to do so had not yet been received from the Libyan authorities. A State Department official busted his ass trying to get that permission, but he was not able to get it before the plane departed.
The rescue team was then placed on another plane and sent to Benghazi. They arrived after the second attack. The second attack occurred at the CIA annex, about seven hours after the first one at the consulate.
So...again, to say there was no rescue attempt is to regurgitate a lot of piss.
Another special forces team was kept in Tripoli to protect our people there. This was a common sense decision.
The "stand down order" is a fiction invented by Fox News.