CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say

EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say

 

Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by officials in the CIA chain of command — who also told the CIA operators twice to “stand down” rather than help the ambassador’s team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.

Former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were part of a small team who were at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. Consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When they heard the shots fired, they radioed to inform their higher-ups to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to “stand down,” according to sources familiar with the exchange. An hour later, they called again to headquarters and were again told to “stand down.”

Woods, Doherty and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the Consulate which at that point was on fire. Shots were exchanged. The quick reaction force from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the Consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.

At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.

Watch “Special Report Investigates: Death and Deceit in Benghazi” on Fox News at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, 3 p.m. on Sunday and 10 p.m. on Sunday. 

A Special Operations team, or CIF which stands for Commanders in Extremis Force, operating in Central Europe had been moved to Sigonella, Italy, but they too were told to stand down. A second force that specializes in counterterrorism rescues was on hand at Sigonella, according to senior military and intelligence sources. According to those sources, they could have flown to Benghazi in less than two hours. They were the same distance to Benghazi as those that were sent from Tripoli. Specter gunships are commonly used by the Special Operations community to provide close air support.

According to sources on the ground during the attack, the special operator on the roof of the CIA annex had visual contact and a laser pointing at the Libyan mortar team that was targeting the CIA annex. The operators were calling in coordinates of where the Libyan forces were firing from.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday that there was not a clear enough picture of what was occurring on the ground in Benghazi to send help.

“There’s a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here,” Panetta said Thursday. “But the basic principle here … is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on.”

Fox News has learned that there were two military surveillance drones redirected to Benghazi shortly after the attack on the Consulate began. They were already in the vicinity. The second surveillance craft was sent to relieve the first drone, perhaps due to fuel issues. Both were capable of sending real time visuals back to U.S. officials in Washington, D.C. Any U.S. official or agency with the proper clearance, including the White House Situation Room, State Department, CIA, Pentagon and others, could call up that video in real time on their computers.

Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, were part of a Global Response Staff or GRS that provides security to CIA case officers and provides countersurveillance and surveillance protection. They were killed by a mortar shell at 4 a.m. Libyan time, nearly seven hours after the attack on the Consulate began — a window that represented more than enough time for the U.S. military to send back-up from nearby bases in Europe, according to sources familiar with Special Operations. Four mortars were fired at the annex. The first one struck outside the annex. Three more hit the annex.

A motorcade of dozens of Libyan vehicles, some mounted with 50 caliber machine guns, belonging to the February 17th Brigades, a Libyan militia which is friendly to the U.S., finally showed up at the CIA annex at approximately 3 a.m. An American Quick Reaction Force sent from Tripoli had arrived at the Benghazi airport at 2 a.m. (four hours after the initial attack on the Consulate) and was delayed for 45 minutes at the airport because they could not at first get transportation, allegedly due to confusion among Libyan militias who were supposed to escort them to the annex, according to Benghazi sources.

The American special operators, Woods, Doherty and at least two others were part of the Global Response Staff, a CIA element, based at the CIA annex and were protecting CIA operators who were part of a mission to track and repurchase arms in Benghazi that had proliferated in the wake of Muammar Qaddafi’s fall. Part of their mission was to find the more than 20,000 missing MANPADS, or shoulder-held missiles capable of bringing down a commercial aircraft. According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans. U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.

Fox News has also learned that Stevens was in Benghazi that day to be present at the opening of an English-language school being started by the Libyan farmer who helped save an American pilot who had been shot down by pro-Qaddafi forces during the initial war to overthrow the regime. That farmer saved the life of the American pilot and the Ambassador wanted to be present to launch the Libyan rescuer’s new school.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AQIBSowd

Obama lied, Obama lied to the American people

White House told of militant claim two hours after Libya attack: emails

By Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON | Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:11pm EDT

(Reuters) – Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.

The emails, obtained by Reuters from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks.

The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington.

U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the Benghazi assault, which President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials ultimately acknowledged was a “terrorist” attack carried out by militants with suspected links to al Qaeda affiliates or sympathizers.

Administration spokesmen, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, citing an unclassified assessment prepared by the CIA, maintained for days that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film.

While officials did mention the possible involvement of “extremists,” they did not lay blame on any specific militant groups or possible links to al Qaeda or its affiliates until intelligence officials publicly alleged that on September 28.

There were indications that extremists with possible al Qaeda connections were involved, but also evidence that the attacks could have erupted spontaneously, they said, adding that government experts wanted to be cautious about pointing fingers prematurely.

U.S. intelligence officials have emphasized since shortly after the attack that early intelligence reporting about the attack was mixed.

Spokesmen for the White House and State Department had no immediate response to requests for comments on the emails.

MISSIVES FROM LIBYA

The records obtained by Reuters consist of three emails dispatched by the State Department’s Operations Center to multiple government offices, including addresses at the White House, Pentagon, intelligence community and FBI, on the afternoon of September 11.

The first email, timed at 4:05 p.m. Washington time – or 10:05 p.m. Benghazi time, 20-30 minutes after the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission allegedly began – carried the subject line “U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack” and the notation “SBU”, meaning “Sensitive But Unclassified.”

The text said the State Department’s regional security office had reported that the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was “under attack. Embassy in Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well.”

The message continued: “Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four … personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support.”

A second email, headed “Update 1: U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi” and timed 4:54 p.m. Washington time, said that the Embassy in Tripoli had reported that “the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi had stopped and the compound had been cleared.” It said a “response team” was at the site attempting to locate missing personnel.

A third email, also marked SBU and sent at 6:07 p.m. Washington time, carried the subject line: “Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack.”

The message reported: “Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli.”

While some information identifying recipients of this message was redacted from copies of the messages obtained by Reuters, a government source said that one of the addresses to which the message was sent was the White House Situation Room, the president’s secure command post.

Other addressees included intelligence and military units as well as one used by the FBI command center, the source said.

It was not known what other messages were received by agencies in Washington from Libya that day about who might have been behind the attacks.

Intelligence experts caution that initial reports from the scene of any attack or disaster are often inaccurate.

By the morning of September 12, the day after the Benghazi attack, Reuters reported that there were indications that members of both Ansar al-Sharia, a militia based in the Benghazi area, and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the North African affiliate of al Qaeda’s faltering central command, may have been involved in organizing the attacks.

One U.S. intelligence official said that during the first classified briefing about Benghazi given to members of Congress, officials “carefully laid out the full range of sparsely available information, relying on the best analysis available at the time.”

The official added, however, that the initial analysis of the attack that was presented to legislators was mixed.

“Briefers said extremists were involved in attacks that appeared spontaneous, there may have been a variety of motivating factors, and possible links to groups such as (al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar al-Sharia) were being looked at closely,” the official said.

(Additional reporting by Susan Cornwell; Editing by Mary Milliken and Jim Loney)

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UPDATE

Here are the emails.

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Hey Stephanie

In the latest Stephanie Cutter mass e-mail solicitation for money, the little Demo-rat is completely in a state of dementia.

Quote by her words ‘As President Obama said, Mitt Romney would take us back to the foreign policy of the 1980s, social policy of the 1950s, and economic policy of the 1920s. President Obama’s vision, on the other hand, would build on the progress of the last four years, do some nation building here at home, and move America forward, not back.’

OK, lets look at the facts;

foreign policy of the 1980s – Reagan was in office, our military was strong, we defeated the Soviet Union. After the idiot from Plains (Jimma Carter) was removed from office, the US economy roared back to life. The moonbats and enemedia must have a hard time not having the double digit inflation and mortgages of the Carter years. Let alone the high unemployment rate that Carter created. 

social policy of the 1950s – what’s was wrong with the good ole American family, high morals, good character, and civil responsibility. Unlike the teenage trollop named Stanley Ann Dunham, who’s moral character is lower then a limbo bar at a nudist camp. Remember ‘I like Ike’. The 50’s were also the fastest growth in the United States. Detroit was booming, the manufacturing industry was the envy of the world. Made in America was the highest standard. 

economic policy of the 1920s – again, the moonbats and enemedia forget what the term used to describe the 1920’s, oh yea the ‘ROARING 20’s’, The Roaring Twenties is a term sometimes used to refer to the 1920s, characterizing the era’s distinctive cultural edge in most of the world’s major cities for a period of sustained economic prosperity.

Let’s repeat that several times;

period of sustained economic prosperity.

period of sustained economic prosperity.

period of sustained economic prosperity.

period of sustained economic prosperity.

Unlike the last four years under the ‘Affirmative Action’ pRresident Barak Obama,

Here are some interesting facts;

NOT JUST GAS! CHECK OUT THE DRASTIC PRICE INCREASES ON THESE 21 EVERYDAY ITEMS

GASOLINE [ALL TYPES]

2002 Average – $1.44
2012  Average- $3.73
Percent Increase: 158%

BEER [PER 16 OZ.]

2002 Average – $.99
2012 Average-$1.24
Percent Increase: 25%

EGGS, GRADE A, LARGE [PER DOZ.]

2002 Average – $1.03
2012 Average-$1.80
Percent Increase: 73%

COFFEE, GROUND ROAST, ALL SIZES [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $2.92
2012 Average-$5.58
Percent Increase: 90%

PEANUT BUTTER [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $1.96
2012 Average-$2.75
Percent Increase: 40%

MILK, FRESH, WHOLE, FORTIFIED [PER GAL.]

2002 Average – $2.75
2012 Average-$3.47
Percent Increase: 26%

LOAF OF BREAD, WHITE

2002 Average – $1.01
2012 Average-$1.41
Percent Increase: 39%

SPAGHETTI AND MACARONI [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $0.91
2012 Average-$1.32
Percent Increase: 44%

ORANGE JUICE [PER 16OZ.]

2002 Average – $1.84
2012 Average-$2.69
Percent Increase: 46%

APPLE, RED DELICIOUS [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $0.94
2012 Average-$1.35
Percent Increase: 43%

WINE [PER 1 LITER]

2002 Average – $6.23
2012 Average-$10.03
Percent Increase: 60%

ELECTRICITY [KILOWATT/ HOUR]

2002 Average – $.091
2012 Average-$.130
Percent Increase: 42%

BEEF STEAKS [PER 16 OZ.]

2002 Average – $4.40
2012 Average-$6.22
Percent Increase:  41%

MARGARINE,SOFT, TUBS  [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $o.86
2012 Average-$2.09
Percent Increase: 143%

TOMATOES [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $1.18
2012 Average-$1.44
Percent Increase: 22%

TURKEY, WHOLE [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $1.05
2012 Average-$1.65
Percent Increase: 56%

BACON [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $3.23
2012 Average-$4.52
Percent Increase: 39%

GROUND BEEF [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $2.28
2012 Average-$3.69
Percent Increase: 61%

COOKIES, CHOCOLATE CHIP [PER LB.]

2002 Average – $2.59
2012 Average-$3.61
Percent Increase: 39%

So you can see why Stephanie Cutter is completely off her rocker and spreads nothing but Barak bullshi& to the uneducated moonbats.  Keeping it sleazy and pathetic Stephanie. What’s worse is that Barak has no intention of stopping these lies and that his campaign will continue to slander whomever and whatever it thinks will garner votes.

Racist Whoopi-puke strikes again

 

Had they asked about Obama’s religion it would have been Muslim as indicated in the school registration in Indonesia.

FOX News – No More Obama Bullshit

A Frank Luntz focus group made up mostly of former Obama voters say they now support Mitt Romney.

“Forceful, compassionate, presidential,” one participant said.
“Confident and realistic,” said another.
“Presidential,” another told Luntz.
“Enthusiastic,” another reacted.
“Our next president,” one man said.
“Dynamo, winner,” said one more.

“He’s lied about everything. He lied to get elected in 2008, that’s why I voted for him. I bought his bull. And he’s lied about everything, he hasn’t come through on anything. And he’s been bullshitting the public,” one member of the focus group said.

Enough said, people are seeing Barry for who is is…Barry the bullshitter.

Shocking Secrets and Verifiable Facts about Barack Obama the MSM Refuses to Report

 

 

Shocking Secrets and Verifiable Facts about President Barack Obama the Mainstream Media Refuses to Report

If you think you know everything there is to know about Barack Obama, think again.

What you’ll hear on this episode of Catch Kevin: No Holds Barred! will not only shock you, it will alarm you!

Why does mainstream media refuse to give us the truth about the most powerful man in the world? Yet, a man who is shrouded in secrecy and immune to any and all vetting by that same media.
What information would have turned up had Barack Obama been properly vetted? Listen to this eye-opening, jaw-droppoing episode of Catch Kevin: No Holds Barred!
Full Show And Catch Kevin Radio Show Website At The Link Below
http://catchkevin.com/shocking-secrets-about-barack-obama/

Thank you CDR Kerchner (Ret)’s Blog

Obama; TOLD US THAT HIS FATHER WAS AN INDONESIAN

OBAMA’S FORMER CLASSMATE: ‘HE TOLD US THAT HIS FATHER WAS AN INDONESIAN KING,‘ THAT ’HE WAS A PRINCE’ & ‘WOULD BE A RULER’

This week, PBS’s “Frontline” published the transcript from a June 27, 2012 interview with Kristen Caldwell, a woman who grew up with President Barack Obama and attended the Punahou School with him in Honolulu, Hawaii. Among other claims, she told PBS that, as a young child, Obama told his classmates that he was Kenyan royalty or an Indonesian prince — fascinating claims that she discussed in great detail.

U.S. President Barack Obama (Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

The former classmate, who referred to Obama as “Barry” throughout the interview (the name she claims his classmates called him), said that she believes Obama was at the prestigious school on scholarship. Like other kids who were attending on reduced admission, he likely worked at the tennis courts on campus — a location where the two frequently hung out.

During the interview, she described Obama’s physical appearance and his frequent purported embellishment of his background.

“I can picture him as this slightly — “chubby” is too strong, but rounded, short little guy, Barry Obama,” Caldwell said. “And he told us that his father was an Indonesian king and that he was a prince, and after he finished school he was going to go back, and he would be a ruler in Indonesia.”

President Barack Obama as a child (Photo Credit: FILE)

Obama must have been charismatic even then, as his former classmate said the following about his wild claims: “I absolutely believed him.” Caldwell also said she heard that Obama once told his fifth-grade class that he was Kenyan royalty. While she didn’t hear this directly — and it was years later that the story made its way to her — Obama’s claim to be a prince was something she experienced directly.

“My sister and I remember very clearly that he was an Indonesian prince and that he would be going back there,” she continued. “So there was some reference to where he had come from, and the understanding was his family was there.”

Barack Obama (Photo Credit: FILE)

Caldwell and Obama were purportedly close, seeing as her father allegedly drove him home from the tennis courts on rainy days. Additionally, she claims that they spent a great deal of time hanging out together both during the school year and throughout the summer each year – however, she didn’t seem to know intimate details about his background.

As far as the embellished stories about his father and stature, PBS asked Caldwell why she believes Obama told such tall tales.

The former classmate said that she believes insecurity was the central underpinning of his stories about being royalty and one-day returning to Indonesia to assume the throne. After living in Hawaii until he was six, moving in Indonesia from six until age 10 and then arriving back in the state, once again, she said she could understand why he felt the need to compensate.

“I would think he would have felt very, very fish-out-of-water, very uncomfortable, and like anybody, he’d have to have a little bit of bravado to mask the insecurities,” Caldwell continued.

In a subsequent question, PBS asked if Caldwell noticed anything special about Obama during the time she spent with him. Considering that he grew up to become the leader of the free world, the outlet was curious to know if he exuded confidence and other such sentiment that pointed to a bright future ahead. While highlighting the fact that Punahou was filled with brilliant and talented children — and that getting into the school required that one fit these categories — she said, “to me he was a normal kid.”

“He didn’t seem outstanding academically or athletically or any other way. To me he seemed normal,” she continued.

While these claims are certainly odd, children often role-play and use their imaginations. It’s entirely possible this is what was at play. Either way, these are some intriguing claims to say the least. Read the transcript from “Frontline’s” entire interview with Kristen Caldwell here.

Notice that there again is no mention of any connection to the United States or US Citizenship.  Just as Obama’s web-site stated in 2008,

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

(Note: I omitted the claim of , being born in Hawaii, as there has been no factual documentation that Barack Obama II was actually born in Hawaii. The COLB and Long Form’s are forgeries.) 

Just as Obama in his own words ‘Born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia.

Obama backed this up with his  Illinois State Senator Obama admits childhood in Kenya

Obama’s Nativity Fable Exposed 

When did Kenya become Hawaii

Michelle Obama states Obama is Kenyan, not African American

Statements by the Kenyan Government on Obama

Is Obama going to call his wife a liar?

Kenyan Official ‘Obama not even American’

Michelle Obama ‘Barack’s HOME COUNTRY Kenya’

Kenyan official: Obama born here, “not even a native American.”

During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country’s minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America’s election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite:

The Kenyan lawmaker told the nation’s parliament last month that Barack Obama was born in Africa and is therefore “not even a native American.”

The full quote; “If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation, how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the President of America?

Obama’s Roots

Obama’s Roots

 

by Rodney Pike

Campaign Button

Remember those campaign buttons of yesteryear, well here is a first in a series of campaign buttons for 2012 to get help unelect Barack Hussein Obama.

Obama the DUH!

 

When you have nothing but a record of failure, a pathetic loser, and unAmerican scumbag like Obama, you have nothing but empty words.

Even Drudge posted the following picture.  Notice how pissed the ‘angry one’ looked.

It will be wonderful when the ‘bow-legged Chewie’ loses her vacations in Nov.