Obama was informed of Benghazi terror attack by military aide, who is never more than steps away from President. The message was verbal, face to face. Obama knew the truth within an hour of start of attack. The decision to deny life-saving help to US people under fire was Obama's. Not CIA, not Patreus, not Hillary. Court martial offense. Cowardice under fire.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AUjU39Uh
Urgent requests for military back-up from the Benghazi CIA annex during the attack on the U.S. consulate... WAS DENIED by the CIA chain of command -- who twice told the CIA operators to "stand down" rather than help ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi Sept. 11.
Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods and at least two others ignored those orders...they called again for military support because they were taking fire.The request was denied...A 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.
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.
A Special Operations team, CIF (Commanders in Extremis Force)...were never told to deploy...they could have flown to Benghazi in less than two hours.
There were two military surveillance drones over Benghazi shortly after the attack began. 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 was later joined at the scene by fellow former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty. They were both 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.
The team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans (by Libyan authorities).
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