Oh, my:
! @JudicialWatch-obtained email: DoD had forces ready on 9/11/12 "assuming principals agree." Guess they didn't. pic.twitter.com/Z8HHrLVPvj
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 8, 2015
Source link for last tweet: https://t.co/jlBvNpMSzZ
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 8, 2015
More from Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch today released a new Benghazi email from then-Department of Defense Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash to State Department leadership immediately offering “forces that could move to Benghazi” during the terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. In an email sent to top Department of State officials, at 7:19 p.m. ET, only hours after the attack had begun, Bash says, “we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.” The Obama administration redacted the details of the military forces available, oddly citing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption that allows the withholding of “deliberative process” information.
Bash’s email seems to directly contradict testimony given by then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta before the Senate Armed Services Committee in February 2013. Defending the Obama administration’s lack of military response to the nearly six-hour-long attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Panetta claimed that “time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response.”
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The timing of the Bash email is particularly significant based upon testimony given to members of Congress by Gregory Hicks, Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attack. According to Hicks’ 2013 testimony, a show of force by the U.S. military during the siege could have prevented much of the carnage. Said Hicks, “if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them.”
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Amazing. And not in a good way.
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/674327046798057472
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 8, 2015
— Nick Sharkey (@sharkey) December 8, 2015
— Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) December 8, 2015
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#SmartPowerhttps://t.co/toJhlYOOc8
— BT (@back_ttys) December 8, 2015
So not really a video-induced random attack, right? https://t.co/0CFi6DCzBg
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) December 8, 2015
The Benghazi smoking gun. #TCOT https://t.co/sxlyKcBGmf
— On The Left Coast (@GhostedUSA) December 8, 2015
Hello @HillaryClinton Explain please. https://t.co/BLd9lAkngD
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 8, 2015
We’re waiting.
Hey @hillaryclinton, can we have a "national conversation" about this when you wake up from your nap/ https://t.co/z2V8YJJ8V8
— #cULture (@jllanclos) December 8, 2015
@jpodhoretz @kerpen @JudicialWatch I don't want to believe this is real. This would elevate the administration to cartoon villains
— Shawn (@Shawn_on_Games) December 8, 2015
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
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