CIA Operators Told “Stand Down” Rather Than Help Ambassador.

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 U.S. officials -- 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.

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CIA Denied Help During Benghazi Attack

October 26, 2012
Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that three urgent requests from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack nearly seven hours later were denied by officials in the CIA chain of command -- who also told the CIA operators 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. 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.

http://nation.foxnews.com/benghazi-gate/2012/10/26/cia-denied-help-during-benghazi-attack

This is absolutely sickening. Why in hell were they told to "stand down"? And who in the CIA chain of command gave those orders?

 

A 'Stand Down' Foreign Policy

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331902/stand-down-foreign-policy-pete-hegseth#

 

Tyrone Woods Painted a Target, But the Missile
Never Came

They were told not to relieve the ambassador. They were told not to offer assistance.
He found where the mortar fire was coming from. He painted it with his laser. Anybody in the military will tell you there’s only one reason you do that. He was painting where that mortar fire was coming from because he figured there was air support that was then gonna take that mortar location out. That's why he was lasering it. He was effectively lighting it up.This however told the terrorists where he was. They were able to find him, and it was that mortar fire that killed him. Now, why would he light it up? Why would he paint it if there was no assistance? He clearly thought there was. This becomes more outrageous as the days go by and as we continue to learn more and more about it.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...t-overhead-but-white-house-called-off-attack/

 

The Democrats want you to focus on Hurricane Sandy instead...

 

Cover-up!!
It's sickening how not a single lib on the board is willing to acknowldge this.

 

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One word, one punctuation, and one internet extension. Snopes-dot-com.

More conspiracy theory crap from the Right! What a shock!

 

Snopes.. Hahahaha.. OK, whatever...

 

Interesting reply. However, the only relevant on snopes for Benghazi only rebuts Fox's reports by saying that administration officials have so far denied their report. And you would expect them to do anything else right before the election?

 

Sources say that Fox is not actually news. Other independent sources confirm that Right-wing blogs are complete and total BS. People are asking why this nonsense is even being considered by people with enough brain cells to continue breathing unassisted. Many people have questions that go unanswered.

Man! This is easy.

 

Yep! Relaying the liberal talking points is real easy. Actually discussing events with real facts is a bit more challenging since it excludes most all of the liberal talking points.

 

Apparently all of the oxygen has already been sucked out of the Right-wing bubble. There isn't a Left-wing taking point in this entire thread and yet rlm's sees them anyway.

All I see is a Lefty laughing at a bunch of conspiracy freaks.

 

Oh! And all the facts in your last 2 posts have been highlighted in bold blue (like this).

 

Hahahahah! That was brilliant, RLM!

 

Yeah, but maybe it was too obtuse for Teddy to understand, you think?

 

Yes, I do!

 

Oops!

This is why nobody with a brain in their head listens to anything Fox News reports and coincidentally or not why so many RW'ers here are brainless Fox News parrots.
U.S. says CIA responded within 25 minutes to Benghazi attack


Intelligence officials dispute a report by Fox News that officers in Libya were ordered to 'stand down' after the diplomatic compound came under attack.







A man looks at documents at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after the Sept. 11 attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The graffiti reads, "No God but God, " "God is great," and "Muhammad is the prophet." (Ibrahim Alaguri / AP Photo / November 1, 2012)

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By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
November 2, 2012
WASHINGTON — CIA security officers in a Benghazi post responded within 25 minutes to a call for help from a nearby State Department compound after it came under attack Sept. 11, officials said Thursday, seeking to refute a Fox News report asserting that CIA managers ordered them to stay put.
In releasing a detailed timeline of CIA actions that night, senior intelligence officials have put aside long-standing concerns about revealing the extent of the agency's presence in Benghazi in order to push back against what officials say are baseless allegations that aid was withheld.
"At every level in the chain of command, from the senior officers in Libya to the most senior officials in Washington, everyone was fully engaged in trying to provide whatever help they could," a senior intelligence official said in a statement. "There were no orders to anybody to stand down in providing support."
PHOTOS: Attack on consulate in Libya
Fox News asserted in a story last week that CIA managers had ordered agency security officers to "stand down" and remain in their own facility, known as the Annex, when the attack on the diplomatic compound began about 9:40 p.m. and that there was an hour delay before officers disobeyed orders and went to help repel the attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and State Department officer Sean Smith.
Among those who rushed to help was Tyrone Woods, a former Navy SEAL who was part of the CIA security team and who later died in the attacks.
The Fox story also asserted that the CIA "chain of command" refused to pass along requests from its officers for military aid and that special operations forces in nearby Sicily could have been sent to help but were not. Intelligence and Pentagon officials strenuously denied that Thursday.
They insisted there was no viable military option to disrupt what amounted to a series of sporadic attacks in a crowded city full of people sympathetic to the U.S. There were no armed drones in the region and airstrikes were not called for, officials said.
"Let's say we were able to get an aircraft there. Do you go in and start strafing a populated area without knowing where friend or foe is?" a senior Defense official asked. "If you did that, you could kill the very people you are trying to help."
A special operations team was sent to Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, but the team arrived after the attack ended, said the senior Defense official, who would not be quoted by name discussing potentially classified information.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta learned of the attack shortly after it began, about 4:30 p.m Eastern time, Defense officials said, and discussed it in a previously scheduled meeting with the president. Obama ordered him to pursue whatever options were feasible, a Defense official said.
Panetta "ordered all appropriate forces to respond to the unfolding events in Benghazi, but the attack was over before those forces could be employed," Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
Shortly after 11 p.m. a surveillance drone had arrived from elsewhere in Libya — about an hour after it was requested, officials said. But the video feed was not seen by the president, contrary to some news reports. And the feed did not offer analysts a clear understanding of what was happening on the ground, officials said.
After the CIA team arrived at the compound, "over the next 25 minutes, team members approach the compound, attempt to secure heavy weapons [from Libyans], and make their way onto the compound itself in the face of enemy fire," the senior U.S. intelligence official said.
The senior intelligence official disclosed that the CIA also sent a second six-member team from Tripoli on a chartered plane to help repel the attack. The team included Glen Doherty, another former SEAL, who was later killed when attackers fired mortar rounds at the CIA Annex.
The team arrived around midnight but got bogged down at the airport. Ultimately, it learned that "the ambassador was almost certainly dead" and headed to the agency facility "to assist with the evacuation," the official said.
It arrived with Libyan support at the Annex at 5:15 a.m., just before mortar rounds began to strike. Woods and Doherty were killed as they fired on militants from the roof. The mortar attack lasted 11 minutes, the official said.
The drone overhead was not armed. Even if it had been, there were no viable targets, officials said.
"The officers on the ground in Benghazi responded to the situation on the night of 11 and 12 September as quickly and as effectively as possible," the intelligence official said. "The security officers in particular were genuine heroes. They quickly tried to rally additional local support and heavier weapons, and when that could not be accomplished within minutes, they still moved in and put their own lives on the line to save their comrades."

 

This is also why real journalists refuse to report the conspiracy nonsense that Fox puts out on a daily basis. But of course the real idiots just take the silence of the responsible journalists in this country as proof of their conspiracy nonsense.

 

Interesting, since the planes in Italy were 1 hour away, If they had a problem, those in Turkey were 2 hours away. That means that they should have been there for the last 4 hours of the fighting. Alternatively, someone refused to obey Panetta's orders. Either way, something is blatantly and obviously wrong with that scenario. Everyone can see it - except ..............