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New Declassified Docs Expose Obamas Benghazi Lies
January 14, 2014 by Arnold Ahlert
Newly declassified documents reveal that high-ranking members of the Obama administration were aware that the September 11, 2012 assault on the American consulate in Benghazi was a terrorist attack only minutes after the battle began. In classified testimony given on June 26, 2013 to the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, Gen. Carter Hamm, former head of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) revealed he was the one who broke the news to former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to declassified testimony obtained by Fox News, Hamm testified that he learned about the attack only 15 minutes after it began at 9:42 p.m. Libya time. Thus, the administrations carefully crafted narrative that the attack was based on a video has once again been revealed for the lie it always was.
My first call was to General Dempsey, General Dempseys office, to say, Hey, I am headed down the hall. I need to see him right away, the General told lawmakers. I told him what I knew. We immediately walked upstairs to meet with Secretary Panetta. Hamm characterized the ability to meet with both men so soon after the attack occurred as a fortunate happenstance because they had the basic information as they headed across for the meeting at the White House.
That meeting had been pre-scheduled with the president for 5 p.m. EST. A Defense Department (DOD) timeline notes that the meeting occurred one hour and 18 minutes after the attack began, and even as the battle at the consulate was ongoing. The DOD also revealed that an unarmed drone arrived over the battlefield during that time. As both men revealed in subsequent testimony, the meeting with the president lasted approximately 30 minutes after which they never heard from anyone in the White House again.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), an Iraq war veteran and Army reserve officer, pressed the General more forcefully on the nature of his conversation with Panetta and Dempsey. He expressed his concern that someone in the military would be advising that this was a demonstration rather than a terrorist attack. Hamm noted their was some preliminary discussion of the point, but emphasized that they were aware of what was really going on. But I think at the command, I personally and I think the command very quickly got to the point that this was not a demonstration, this was a terrorist attack, he testified. Hamm also reiterated that with General Dempsey and Secretary Panetta, that is the nature of the conversation we had, yes, sir.
The American people deserve the truth. They deserve to know whats going on, and I honestly think that thats why you have seen beyond the tragedy that there was a loss of four Americans lives is that the American people feel misled.
Kim R. Holmes, a former assistant secretary of state under President George W. Bush, echoed that assertion. Leon Panetta should have spoken up, he insisted. The people at the Pentagon and frankly, the people at the CIA stood back while all of this was unfolding and allowed this narrative to go on longer than they should have.
January 14, 2014 by Arnold Ahlert
Newly declassified documents reveal that high-ranking members of the Obama administration were aware that the September 11, 2012 assault on the American consulate in Benghazi was a terrorist attack only minutes after the battle began. In classified testimony given on June 26, 2013 to the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, Gen. Carter Hamm, former head of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) revealed he was the one who broke the news to former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to declassified testimony obtained by Fox News, Hamm testified that he learned about the attack only 15 minutes after it began at 9:42 p.m. Libya time. Thus, the administrations carefully crafted narrative that the attack was based on a video has once again been revealed for the lie it always was.
My first call was to General Dempsey, General Dempseys office, to say, Hey, I am headed down the hall. I need to see him right away, the General told lawmakers. I told him what I knew. We immediately walked upstairs to meet with Secretary Panetta. Hamm characterized the ability to meet with both men so soon after the attack occurred as a fortunate happenstance because they had the basic information as they headed across for the meeting at the White House.
That meeting had been pre-scheduled with the president for 5 p.m. EST. A Defense Department (DOD) timeline notes that the meeting occurred one hour and 18 minutes after the attack began, and even as the battle at the consulate was ongoing. The DOD also revealed that an unarmed drone arrived over the battlefield during that time. As both men revealed in subsequent testimony, the meeting with the president lasted approximately 30 minutes after which they never heard from anyone in the White House again.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), an Iraq war veteran and Army reserve officer, pressed the General more forcefully on the nature of his conversation with Panetta and Dempsey. He expressed his concern that someone in the military would be advising that this was a demonstration rather than a terrorist attack. Hamm noted their was some preliminary discussion of the point, but emphasized that they were aware of what was really going on. But I think at the command, I personally and I think the command very quickly got to the point that this was not a demonstration, this was a terrorist attack, he testified. Hamm also reiterated that with General Dempsey and Secretary Panetta, that is the nature of the conversation we had, yes, sir.
The American people deserve the truth. They deserve to know whats going on, and I honestly think that thats why you have seen beyond the tragedy that there was a loss of four Americans lives is that the American people feel misled.
Kim R. Holmes, a former assistant secretary of state under President George W. Bush, echoed that assertion. Leon Panetta should have spoken up, he insisted. The people at the Pentagon and frankly, the people at the CIA stood back while all of this was unfolding and allowed this narrative to go on longer than they should have.
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