BENGHAZI: ARE EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS AROUND THE CORNER? WAS HILLARY CLINTON INVOLVED IN PROVIDING STINGER MISSILES TO AL QAEDA? WAS GENERAL CARTER HAM ORDERED NOT TO INTERFERE WITH BENGHAZI ATTACK?
UPDATE: CARTER HAM CHANGES DEPLOYMENT ORDER, SENDS AID TO TRIPOLI, NOT BENGHAZI.
It appears that both President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave orders to do everything in our power for those stricken in Benghazi ... but that order was mishandled by General Carter Ham, who for reasons unknown, decided to send support to Tripoli and not Benghazi.
Ham was in overall command of military forces when the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks were launched on the American consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya. Congressman Trey Gowdy who led the Congressional investigation into the attacks stated that Carter Ham acknowledges that he altered President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's order to deploy to Benghazi to rescue American personnel, and redirected the deployment to Tripoli, Libya instead. <Source>
Original Post ...
According to this media report, it appears that additional whistleblowers are seeking legal counsel before providing information that will shake the confidence of the American public in the Obama Administration and may put Hillary Clinton at significant risk of authorizing or allowing the State Department to provide stinger missiles to al Qaeda. But the real question is: is the report true and correct?
PJM EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama
More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon. These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistleblower law.
The former diplomats inform PJM the new revelations concentrate in two areas — what Ambassador Chris Stevens was actually doing in Benghazi and the pressure put on General Carter Ham, then in command of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and therefore responsible for Libya, not to act to protect jeopardized U.S. personnel.
Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.
Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”
This left Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the consulate and ended up killing Stevens.
Regarding General Ham, military contacts of the diplomats tell them that AFRICOM had Special Ops “assets in place that could have come to the aid of the Benghazi consulate immediately (not in six hours).” Ham was told by the White House not to send the aid to the trapped men, but Ham decided to disobey and did so anyway, whereupon the White House “called his deputy and had the deputy threaten to relieve Ham of his command.”
PJ Media recognizes this is largely hearsay, but the two diplomats sounded quite credible. One of them was in a position of responsibility in a dangerous area of Iraq in 2004.
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While there is the possibility that this information is inaccurate or downright wrong, somebody has taken the time and effort to spin this story. For what purpose remains unknown.
Bottom line …
If this information is true, Hillary Clinton may have either exceeded her authority as the head of the State Department or she was authorized to execute the plan by, her immediate superior, the President of the United States.
There is also the possibility that this might be the CIA’s way of removing both President Obama and Hillary Clinton from the political scene in a political coup to redress the damage the Obama Administration has done to America with his inept foreign policy.
Or, to consider other scenarios, this is yet another false lead to distract the American public from the real truth surrounding the Benghazi attack on the anniversary of 9/11 which left four dead Americans. Discrediting conservatives in the process.
We know that Obama Administration attempted a crude and inept cover-up about a spontaneous protest over a little-seen anti-Islam video that was rarely seen. Unfortunately for the Administration, this was a lie that was known to be a lie – and was repeated by President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and others. We also know that a high-ranking General and an Admiral were relived of their command over this affair.
On Oct. 18, defense secretary Leon Panetta and the Army announced that Pres. Obama "had nominated Gen. David M. Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter F. Ham as the commander of U.S. Africa Command." Gen. Ham retired after nearly four decades of distinguished military service. He is a few years short of the mandatory retirement age of 64, fueling speculations that the general was fired.
On Monday, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, released the following statement to the Washington Times:
The speculation that General Carter Ham is departing Africa Command (AFRICOM) due to events in Benghazi, Libya on 11 September 2012 is absolutely false. General Ham's departure is part of routine succession planning that has been on going since July.
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The information I heard today was that General Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.
General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command. The story continues that now General Rodriguez would take General Ham’s place as the head of Africom. <Source>
The Navy on Monday officially disciplined the admiral who had commanded a carrier strike group until being abruptly removed from the position last fall while the vessels patrolled the North Arabian Sea. Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette, who led Carrier Strike Group Three, which included the U.S.S. John C. Stennis, had been accused of using profanity in a public setting and making at least two racially insensitive comments, officials familiar with the investigation said. He was cleared of any criminal violations under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the laws governing the behavior of armed services personnel. But a set of administrative penalties will effectively end his career. <Source>
It boggles the mind that a Rear Admiral in charge of a carrier strike group would be relieved of command for swearing in a public setting or making two racially insensitive comments. One must look beyond this crap to the Admirals duties on the night of the 9/11 Benghazi terrorist attack.
It is now up to Congress to ferret out the truth – in a bi-partisan manner. Any Member of Congress that attempts to shield the President or members of his Administration should be investigated and prosecuted for obstruction of justice.
If this story is true and if al Qaeda uses these alleged stinger missiles to down a civilian aircraft, and it can be proven, the potential for impeachment for treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors becomes a realistic possibility.
The real bottom line is that you cannot trust the Obama Administration to tell the truth on any matter dealing with national security, politics or anything else.
-- steve
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