Bcon wrote:
Apples and oranges. Decades apart. There was help available that could hsve been there in a few hours. Enough time to bomb the hell out of the attacker’s. Why wasnt help when it was asked for. If there were no stand down orders the help would have come. When did you ever hear of USMarines leaving friends to die. Only a California liberal would believe that bull.
Those questions have been answered at length in several investigative reports, including two by Republican-controlled House committees. Congressional committees and an independent board detail the rescue attempts that night, carried out despite U.S. military assets not being in position to defend the B******i facility. Those reports say there were no undue delays in responding to the attacks, and they pointedly rejected unfounded allegations that the U.S. response was deliberately thwarted by a “stand down” order.
“Quite the contrary: the safe evacuation of all U.S. government personnel from B******i twelve hours after the initial attack and subsequently to Ramstein Air Force Base was the result of exceptional U.S. government coordination and military response,” the independent Accountability Review Board concluded in its Dec. 18, 2012, report.
The “U.S. military performed well in responding to the attacks,” the House Armed Services Committee said in a February 2014 report. Separately, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said in its November 2014 report that the CIA — which was first on the scene of the attack — responded in a “timely and appropriate manner.”
Boehner appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and discussed the Select Committee on B******i, a special panel created by the Republican-controlled House last year. The U.S. diplomatic facility in B******i (referred to in official reports as a temporary mission facility, or TMF) was attacked by heavily armed extremists on Sept. 11, 2012. The terrorist attack left four U.S. citizens dead — including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
Host Chris Wallace asked Boehner why he set up the committee “even though there have been about a half dozen investigations” and the GOP-controlled House intelligence committee “basically said there was no there there.” Wallace asked if the committee was created to hurt former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s p**********l ambitions.
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Nov. 21, 2014: The evidence from eyewitness testimony, ISR video footage, closed-circuit television recordings, and other sources provides no support for the allegation that there was any stand-down order. Rather, there were mere tactical disagreements about the speed with which the team should depart prior to securing additional security assets.
A bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report released on Jan. 15, 2014, reached the same conclusion.