Finally, the House Armed Services Committee released transcripts from a classified briefing titled “DOD’s preparation for the terrorist attacks in Benghazi.”
Unfortunately for Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and Sean
Smith, the Obama-Panetta Pentagon was anything but prepared to help
defend the Benghazi compound when it came under attack.
This lack of preparation reflected poorly on a President running for
reelection and a Secretary of State with presidential ambitions, which
is one major reason for the cover-up that followed the attack.
According to a Fox News report:
“… no attack aircraft were placed on high alert on Sept. 11, and the
closest F-16 fighter planes to any of the trouble spots in North Africa
were in Aviano, Italy. None were armed, and the closest air refuellers
were positioned 10 hours away at a base in Great Britain.”
“No Defense Department AC-130 gunships were within a 10-hour flight
to Libya, according to committee members who heard commanders’ testimony
over the past 15 months. And the commander’s in-extremis force, which
included a unit of 23 special operators who are used at the commander’s
discretion, were training in Croatia that day. They did not make it to a
staging base in Sigonella, Italy, for another 19 hours after the attack
began.”
The transcripts reveal that the Pentagon “did an analysis” of attacks
since 9/11/2001 and concluded, given that only one attack had occurred
since then, “we were postured appropriately.”
Postured appropriately? Such a posture may have made sense to a
president claiming al-Qaeda was “decimated” and “on the run,” but
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary Clinton should have never
let such a conclusion be drawn.
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