Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said Saturday he has sources saying President Barack Obama was in the room at the White House watching the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya unfold.
Two unarmed U.S. drones were dispatched to the consulate and recorded the final hours of the attack, which killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
“This was in the middle of the business day in Washington, so everybody at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, everybody was watching this go down,” Shaffer said on Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine.” “According to my sources, yes, [Obama] was one of those in the White House Situation Room in real-time watching this.”
Shaffer served as a senior operations officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan in 2003 and wrote a book critical of the policies there. The U.S. government purchased the entire print run for $47,000 in an attempt at censorship just before its 2010 publication, claiming it contained classified material.
Shaffer said the question now is what precisely Obama did or didn’t do in the moments he saw the attack unfolding. The CIA reportedly made three urgent requests for military backup that were each denied.
“He, only he, could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something. That’s the only place it could be done,” Shaffer said.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week the military did not intervene because they did not have enough information about what was happening on the ground.
Col. David Hunt, a Fox News military analyst, said the military could have had jets in the air within 20 minutes and forces on the ground within two hours.
“The issue is always political with the White House, but the secretary of defense gives the order, has to be approved by the White House, they wouldn’t pull the trigger, and it’s disgraceful,” Hunt said. “We’ve got guys dead.”
Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said Saturday he has sources saying President Barack Obama was in the room at the White House watching the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya unfold.
Two unarmed U.S. drones were dispatched to the consulate and recorded the final hours of the attack, which killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
“This was in the middle of the business day in Washington, so everybody at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, everybody was watching this go down,” Shaffer said on Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine.” “According to my sources, yes, [Obama] was one of those in the White House Situation Room in real-time watching this.”
Shaffer served as a senior operations officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan in 2003 and wrote a book critical of the policies there. The U.S. government purchased the entire print run for $47,000 in an attempt at censorship just before its 2010 publication, claiming it contained classified material.
Shaffer said the question now is what precisely Obama did or didn’t do in the moments he saw the attack unfolding. The CIA reportedly made three urgent requests for military backup that were each denied.
“He, only he, could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something. That’s the only place it could be done,” Shaffer said.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week the military did not intervene because they did not have enough information about what was happening on the ground.
Col. David Hunt, a Fox News military analyst, said the military could have had jets in the air within 20 minutes and forces on the ground within two hours.
“The issue is always political with the White House, but the secretary of defense gives the order, has to be approved by the White House, they wouldn’t pull the trigger, and it’s disgraceful,” Hunt said. “We’ve got guys dead.”
@ Laura:
This is the definitive video that tells it all. For those who love Israel.
http://onetermmore.com/video_subtitles.html
hear all about it!
BHO and his ilk have agenda for America that they keep secret.
Perhaps if we knew what it was about, he would automatically lose the elections.
@ dbdent:
ehm….on THIS issue?
As in ‘were it not for this issue to spot his otherwise impeccable record?’
I commend you for your sense of humor
🙂
If all the above is true then the obvious summation is that Obama wanted his representative dead!
Next question – why?
They say USA FO is rampant with problematic personnel – home & away
Had there been an embarrassing moment?
All I can say is that the Sec of Defence should have overruled Obama and then resigned
Obama failed as a president on this issue
@ Canadian Otter:
Please, you are understating matters. It is totally incorrect to say that the American public has no interest in many of these issues, yet it is a proven fact that the media refuses to make bad on Obama and this renegade regime. People are not given the facts, they are given watered down lies and treachery meant to make Obama seem like some sort of Superman. I’ve warned this group about this impostor, perhaps his name is Obama, perhaps not. We are finishing up 4 years with this buffoon and we don’t even know who/what he is. Without the media tilted toward this destroyer, Obama would never have gotten this far. We have tried our best to make all bad in the world appear to be Muslim originated, have we not? Have we succeeded? In general, yes. Obama is likely a Manchurian candidate, it is no surprise to me that he appears to be more than one person at a time. The US lies in the hands of psychopaths and we have our troublemakers, too. You choose a lawyer for your chief executive, you deal with liar specialists the rest of the term. I ask you, what is in this for Hitlery and Obama anyway? We are fools if we think Obama is his own man. Not by a long shot, never. This man is devoid of specific knowledge save his Marxist training from his father, Frank Marshall Davis, a loyal communist and white hater. We know who Bibi is, we haven’t a clue who the impostor in the White House is and that should gall every American. Obama is not just bad for the US, he’s bad for the world.
Here’s a website that keeps track of only a fraction of voting irregularities going on all over the country: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ – We’ll never know the whole story, though, of how Obama came out the winner.
Spam Filter just blocked another comment of mine.
Perhaps I should talk about something really boring and non political to make Spam Filter happy. Such as the 7.7 earthquake near Vancouver Island this morning. No damages, no casualties. There was another quake in Los Angeles too. YAWNNNNN….. Is this boring enough for you Spam Filter???
Leaders of the free world say the strangest things…
Joe Biden to father of one of the Seals who died in Benghazi: Did Your Son Always Have Balls the Size of Cue Balls?
Charles Woods, father of Tyrone Woods, said he thought Barack Obama had ‘no remorse’ over the attack and felt Hillary Clinton was ‘not telling the truth’. And he revealed that at the ceremony for the return of Tyrone’s body, the Vice President approached his family and asked, ‘Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223554/Did-son-balls-size-cue-balls-Bidens-bizarre-question-father-Navy-SEAL-died-Benghazi-attack.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
yamit82 Said:
I had read about this before and I thought the Spanish company was controlled by soros, or something similar. If this is true, which i believe it is, what does it say about Romney and the republicans. If they cannot manage to get this info out and organize opposition when they control congress what good are they? I wonder if the romney run is for real or just a pretense that there are free elections.
@ yamit82:
Thank you, Yamit. I had no idea. How come this is the first I hear about it? Until now nobody in the media or Congress bothered to raise the issue. The question is, if they did, would the voters really care? ~~~ Voting machine reliability is another issue too. Someone said that in other countries (India?) voters get a printed receipt with the name of the candidate they voted for. That ticket is saved at the poll station and when they count the votes, their totals must tally with those on the receipts. But in the US voters don’t get a receipt. It’s all done on faith. To elect the leader of the free world, nothing less… ~~~ And, I should add, legal requirements for candidates to the presidency are also accepted on faith. And this is the person in charge of the Kill List. ~~~ The world is getting scarier by the day. I’m NOT kidding…
@ James B – Canada:
@ Canadian Otter:
How Obama fixed 2012 election
Why is Spam Filter zapping my posts? Posts targeted for moderation usually appear on the page with a message from Spam Filter. In my case they don’t. My four lines, blasted, demolished, evaporated! I submitted them twice.
I’m really, really, trying to understand how Spam Filter’s mind works… I post shorter comments, no more than two links, no “problem” words. Maybe it’s as I said in the past: Spam Filter just targets comments at random, for no good reason at all.
NOT VOTE FRAUD: Busloads of Somalis voting in Ohio. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/are_somali_pirates_voting_in_ohio.html
NOT VOTE FRAUD: Absentee ballots sent to troops burned in crash – http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/26/absentee-ballots-destroyed-in-crash
1) Obama, Holder, Clinton, Brennan, Rice, Powers, Gates,Dempsey, are either part of the Muslim Ikhwan Brotherhood or on their payroll as was GBush Jr, James Baker III, etc..
2) American leftists, especially from the coasts, are retarded and want to see their country be one big angry ball of confusion. Which it is.
3) Republicans and so called conservatives are jumping on this issue only for politicial reasons ( I could be wrong here: hope so).
RESULTS Obama with 280+ electoral college votes, A Democrat Congress and a Democrat Senate.
IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR THE WEST??
this is a train wreck happening in slow motion in front of our very eyes.we are witnessing how EVIL is devouring all that is good, one bite at a time, and there is NOTHING for the good guys’ team to show for. everything seems to be smoke and mirrors. as yamit has documented on another thread, the source of all this is greed, which universally encompasses both ‘republicans’ and ‘democRATS’…
canadian otter has pointed out that
indeed! with all the mountain of evidence pointing to the fraud that this bastard is(literally and figuratively),
what excuse is there for this abomination to still desacrate the oval office with his presence?
no rallies. no manifestations to voice the disgust with ‘the state of the union’ (and i do not refer to the u.s. only)
no!
we march on, business as usual, we become completely numb and callous to each and every bit of news (all bad, and this thread is practically the cherry on the sundae)
worse!
when a poster is commenting that these are acts of treason and as such, they deserve the capital punishment, out of nowhere jumps a kapo (with a jewish name) threatening to ‘report’…
i ask: is there any hope?
or would it be better to destroy all tv sets and computers, retire to the country and just enjoy the companionship of the 4 cats?
So now we know why Obomba vetoed a rescue: He was fapping to the carnage.
There have been many serious allegations made against Obama in the past five years, but Congress has not shown interest in pursuing them, and the public has reacted with only mild curiosity. Investigative journalists have come up with names, figures, statements, documents. To no avail. None of that matters to the public or their representatives. They either love the guy or are afraid to appear racist. ~~~~~~~~ Benghazigate will fade from memory within weeks. Breibart reports that none of the main networks except for FOX mentioned Benghazigate at all during their weekend news shows. I just clicked on The New York Times and Los Angeles Times and the story IS NOT on their home page. The election and the coming superstorm will help to drown out any further talk of Benghazigate at this time. And then it will be history, whoever wins.
Audio of Michael Savage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Eo3sP1gn4&feature=player_embedded
I would believe this latest news with no surprise. Obama is either a closet muslim or muslim sympathizer soon to be on a muslim payroll as is Dhimmy Carter and Republicans and so called Conservatives ( Bush Sr, Bush Jr, James Baker III, McCain?? ).
What is the connection to Benghazi and the muslim brotherhoodess assistant to Hitlery??
Bernard and Dr.Fay, you both make a valid point. I would put nothing past this administration.
@ Bernard Ross:
I’ve also been wondering if the Obama administration allowed these men to be killed to get rid of witnesses also. Not necessarily that the attack itself had any other purpose than to kill the ambassador and other Americans as retaliation against our country by Al Qaeda and its affiliates. But Obama had plenty of motives to cover up his gun running/smuggling operation in the Middle East. Then the FBI was not allowed in there until there had been time for all the remaining evidence (including stored weapons?) to be removed.
@ Bernard Ross:
Yamit, you mentioned that you believed Petraus was involved in a prior forum as head of CIA. Did you have any evidence of this and how does that dovetail with this article? Are you saying the stand down order was issued by Petraeus? I am wondering if the pursuit to the “CIA annex” after the hours of attack on the “consulate” was and effort to remove witnesses; it was a 7 hour attack combined.
Hillary’s response to the father of Navy Seal Tyrone Woods was to assure him that the mohammed filmmaker would be prosecuted. The reaction of this administration to the savage jihad murder of Americans is to persecute an obscure filmmaker and crack down on the freedoms of Americans. These people, from the oval office on down the line, are depraved and treasonous.
We need to elect leaders who’s love and loyalty are to America, who are committed to our constitution, our freedoms and values, not globalists who’s priority is to succumb to international consensus and to avoid offending the muslim street.