{"id":19002,"date":"2013-05-30T16:19:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T20:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19002"},"modified":"2013-05-30T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T20:19:42","slug":"some-perspective-from-a-good-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19002","title":{"rendered":"Some Perspective From A Good Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Peace\/2013\/05\/29\/Blame-the-President-for-Benghazi\">Breitbart.com<\/a> posted an article by Colonel David Hunt about Benghazi. I thought we had heard everything we needed to know about Benghazi, but Colonel Hunt reminds us of something that may have gone unnoticed in the controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Hunt reminds us of events leading up to the attack at Benghazi. He then reminds us of something that somehow has gotten lost in the discussion:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>That same day, two other American embassies in the Middle East were also under attack in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Old City of Sana'a\" href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"unesco\">Sana, Yemen<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cairo\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=30.05,31.2333333333&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=30.05,31.2333333333 (Cairo)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Cairo, Egypt<\/a>. As a result, our intelligence systems were on high alert. When the calls, satellite and drone feeds, faxes, and reports began bombarding every command center from Germany to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">United States<\/a>, our nation, already at war for eleven years, was again under siege. Staffs from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Africa Command\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africom.mil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Africa Command<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States European Command\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_European_Command\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">European Command<\/a>, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Military Command Center\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8711111111,-77.0555555556&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8711111111,-77.0555555556 (National%20Military%20Command%20Center)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">National Military Command Center<\/a>, the CIA Operations Center, the State Department Operations Center, and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House Situation Room\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House_Situation_Room\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">White House Situation Room<\/a> were fully operational.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>This all means that on September 11, 2012, our national security apparatus was on full alert. It means everyone was briefed. This is how it works; no games, no conjecture, no television and movie looks, just real battle in real time with real lives at risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The road to that indecision is littered with policy and leadership failures that culminated in an American mission and clandestine CIA base being attacked and the murder of our Ambassador and three dedicated Americans doing their jobs. However, the one person responsible for it all is the one man who could have, but refused to, even try to stop the carnage&#8230; the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President of the United States<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>All the President had to say within the first two hours while being briefed by the Secretary of Defense was, \u201cSend in a response force.\u201d This command, followed by his signature on a paper called Cross Border Authority, would have ordered the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of Defense\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8709888889,-77.0559611111&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8709888889,-77.0559611111 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20Defense)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Department of Defense<\/a> to do everything and anything to save lives in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benghazi\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.1166666667,20.0666666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.1166666667,20.0666666667 (Benghazi)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Benghazi, Libya<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The real question is, &#8220;Why was that order never given?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=952232b8-cc1e-4bca-bd17-d63e551435c4\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Breitbart.com posted an article by Colonel David Hunt about Benghazi. I thought we had heard everything we needed to know about Benghazi, but Colonel Hunt reminds us of something that may have gone unnoticed in the controversy. Colonel Hunt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3947,390,5627,4490,5626,285,5628,4232],"class_list":["post-19002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-benghazi","tag-cairo","tag-national-military-command-center","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-sana","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-european-command","tag-white-house-situation-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19004,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19002\/revisions\/19004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}