Quote:You can say they had enough information to avoid or quell an attack all you like. It still doesn't make it a fact.
What is the end game of letting these people die if it could have been avoided? What was the nearest exit strategy that could have been employed which she or others neglected? Was there a battalion of troops right around the corner just waiting on the word to engage? No. There wasn't.
FACT
In 2011,
al-Qaeda was known to be in Tripoli to exploit Libya’s unsettled status and to try to obtain some of the thousands of missing MANPADS (man portable air-defense systems): shoulder-fired missiles seized by rebel forces that stormed Qaddafi government bases. U.S. Ambassador Cretz realized there were
seriously dangerous tensions among anti-Qaddafi factions: Islamists and secularists. “I think there is a genuine cause to be concerned that things could go wrong,” he told reporters.
FACT
Operation Papa Noel, a major terrorist plot targeting foreign diplomatic missions in Libya, was thwarted in December of 2011.
Pro-Qaddafi elements had planned to launch a sophisticated attack on foreign diplomatic missions and oil fields in Libya. Later, the
written emergency-evacuation plan for the U.S. mission in Benghazi warned, “the majority of Loyalist insurgents tasked with carrying out this plan are still active and free in Benghazi” and “Islamic terrorist elements do exist in this area of the country, and have been reported by open sources to be gaining operational capability.”
FACT
In an online posting in 2012,
al-Qaeda stated its intent to attack the
Red Cross, the British
, and then t
he Americans in Benghazi
. The goals were accomplished in order.
FACT
April 10, 2012: An explosive device is thrown at a convoy traveling in
Benghazi carrying United Nations envoy Ian Martin.
FACT
May 22, 2012: A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) hits the Benghazi offices of the International
Red Cross
and the agency decides to pull out.
FACT
June 6, 2012: An improvised explosive device detonated just outside the
Benghazi consulate compound.
FACT
June 11, 2012: A rocket-propelled grenade hit a convoy carrying the
British ambassador in Benghazi
. The U.K. pulled out of Benghazi.
FACT
2012: There was an
al-Qaeda demonstration right smack in the middle of Benghazi. “They had a parade down the streets. They raised their flag on one of the county buildings,” says one observer.
Here is the final
FACT regarding this.
Approximately 3:40 p.m. A security agent at the Benghazi compound hears “loud noises” coming from the front gate and “gunfire and an explosion.” A senior State Department official at the Oct. 9 briefing says that “the camera on the main gate reveals a large number of people –
a large number of men, armed men, flowing into the compound.”
6:07 p.m.:
The State Department’s Operations Center sends an email to the White House, Pentagon, FBI and other government agencies that said Ansar al-Sharia has claimed credit for the attack on its Facebook and Twitter accounts. (The existence of the email was not disclosed until Reuters reported it on Oct. 24.)
About 10:00 p.m.: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
issues a statement confirming that one State official was killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Her statement, which MSNBC
posted at 10:32 p.m., made reference to the anti-Muslim video.
11:12 p.m.: Clinton sends
an email to her daughter, Chelsea, that reads: “Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an
al Qaeda-like group: The Ambassador, whom I handpicked and a young communications officer on temporary duty w a wife and two young children. Very hard day and I fear more of the same tomorrow.” (The email was discovered in 2015 by the House Select Committee on Benghazi. It is written to “Diane Reynolds,” which was Chelsea Clinton’s alias.)
I can post more that clearly shows how she and other administration officials clearly lied about the whole thing. These are all facts that are freely available for those who choose to find out the truth.
