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  Topic: Former Special Forces Commander: DOD
Could Have Flown Rescue Team From
Tripoli to Benghazi; DOD: State Dept.
Decided Whether and What to Fly
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Former Special Forces Commander: DOD
Could Have Flown Rescue Team From
Tripoli to Benghazi; DOD: State Dept.
Decided Whether and What to Fly

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey

Original Article

Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/7/2013 9:12:06 AM

Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin--formerly commander of U.S. Special Forces Command and deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence—told CNSNews.com that, if it had been asked, the Defense Department could have sent a plane to Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, to transport a rescue team of U.S. security personnel that instead ended up taking a chartered private plane from Tripoli to Benghazi that night. “There is no question that we could have moved an airplane in there and we could have also put boots on the ground at the embassy,” Gen. Boykin told CNSNews.com.

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And on and on it goes. Is anyone paying attention?? As far as the regime goes this is now a thing of the past. How terribly disturbing for the families of those killed in this tragic event.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: TheMotherCO, 2/7/2013 9:38:27 AM     (No. 9163352)

I think it is valuable to keep the Benghazi flop and disaster in public view. A sample of the lack of intelligence of the hag clintoon and various other morons. If she runs for prez, we need to nip that one at the start with her real resume.


Reply 2 - Posted by: right-turn, 2/7/2013 9:45:15 AM     (No. 9163372)

To put this in perspective ...... They knew within minutes the embassy was under attack. Within hours and hours they responded.
Sort of. But what´s the difference?


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: pickle1, 2/7/2013 9:59:15 AM     (No. 9163409)

They should be in prison.


Reply 4 - Posted by: JAN, 2/7/2013 10:18:43 AM     (No. 9163458)

They were left to die. The indifference to human life is not unexpected is it?

Hitlery´s here is Margaret Sanger and O´s is Mao.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Grambo, 2/7/2013 10:27:23 AM     (No. 9163478)

Hillary should be forced to stand before the families of those four men in public and repeat, “What difference does it make?” Unfortunately, she is completely capable of standing there, stony-faced, and doing it.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Objectivity, 2/7/2013 10:40:27 AM     (No. 9163502)

CBS & 60 minutes ...... where are you? Steve Kroft .... any questions?


Reply 7 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 2/7/2013 11:10:55 AM     (No. 9163567)

Of course State could have asked Defense for a plane. Instead State negotiated for three hours to charter a private plane. The security people they sent were only 7 in number. Then when they landed they spent another almost three hours trying to get to the scene.

I never heard of anything so poorly managed and it was our supposedly best and brightest who were in charge.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: oh-heck, 2/7/2013 11:11:29 AM     (No. 9163569)

It sure sounds like the response team from Tripoli was delayed at the airport just long enough to line up and attack after they arrived at the Annex.


Reply 9 - Posted by: LadyVet, 2/7/2013 11:26:33 AM     (No. 9163606)

When considering the response to Benghazi, we would do well to remember that Hillary! does not have the same mindset as a normal American about the U.S. military. Recall how they treated military attaches in the Clinton White House (to serve coffee and act as household servants). Hillary did not immediately think of calling in the U.S. military because, like her husband, she "loathes" military personnel. Add to that her control freak nature. So what we got was an egotistical, arrogant control freak who initiated a turf war between DoS and DoD.

Of course the military could have reacted promptly and the outcome would have been more favorable. But, in Hillary´s mind, the military would bungled the whole thing; she had to be in charge. More bad decision making on Hillary´s part. Her assistant for diplomatic security was a female, probably an anti-gun nut. When we L-dotters think of a security director, we think of former military special ops or similar person; these Clinton and Obama people do not.


Reply 10 - Posted by: belwhatter, 2/7/2013 11:30:02 AM     (No. 9163617)

General Boykin is a national treasure - so glad he is unafraid to speak up.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Heil Liberals, 2/7/2013 11:54:55 AM     (No. 9163707)

THEY DIDN´T WANT TO!


Reply 12 - Posted by: BuckeyeRon, 2/7/2013 12:14:33 PM     (No. 9163774)

There was an almost immediate intercept of a conversation of the attackers reporting on their success and indicating they planned to hit Tripoli...therefore, NO personnel should have been sent from there, but, as the General noted, military rescue units should have been sent to BOTH Benghazi and Tripoli!


   

 



 

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