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December 09, 2015
'Spinning up as we speak': Email shows Pentagon was ready to roll as Benghazi attack occurred
'Spinning up as we speak': Email shows Pentagon was ready to roll as Benghazi attack occurred
As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.
The revelation appears to contradict testimony Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave lawmakers in 2013, when he said there was no time to get forces to the scene in Libya, where four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
“I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton],” reads the email, from Panetta’s chief of staff Jeremy Bash. “After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.”
The email was sent out at 7:19 p.m. ET on Sept. 11, 2012, in the early stages of the eight-hour siege that also claimed the lives of Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALs, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, private CIA contractors who raced to the aid of embattled State Department workers.
Although the email came after the first wave of the attack at the consulate, it occurred before a mortar strike on the CIA annex killed Woods and Doherty.
“This leaves no doubt military assets were offered and ready to go, and awaiting State Department signoff, which did not come,” Judicial Watch, a nonprofit government watchdog said in a statement.
Wild Thing's comment................
This is treason!!!!!
Posted by Wild Thing at December 9, 2015 02:55 AM
Comments
General Ham was the one who was relieved of command that night.
Posted by: BobF at December 9, 2015 08:52 AM
I fear that Clinton is going to get away scot free on this situation.
Posted by: TomR,armed in Texas at December 9, 2015 02:53 PM
Thanks for the information Bob.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 10, 2015 12:05 AM
Tom so great to see you!!! I think so too Hillary always gets away with her crimes.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 10, 2015 12:06 AM
