'Spinning up as we speak': Email shows Pentagon was ready to roll as Benghazi attack occurred

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.

 

The revelation appears to contradict testimony Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave lawmakers in 2013, when he said there was no time to get forces to the scene in Libya, where four Americans were killed, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.

 

“I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton],” reads the email, from Panetta’s chief of staff Jeremy Bash. “After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.”

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Lost in the "fog" of war?

[Draggingtree]

Fresh Perspectives on Benghazi Keep the Scandals Alive December 1, 2015 From Accuracy in Media:

While much of the focus of attention on the Benghazi scandal has been about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s actions, and inaction, which may have led to the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans, there are other aspects of the story that have gotten far less attention, but are, in fact, more revealing and more damning about the foreign policy of the Obama administration.

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[Valin]

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@WestVirginiaRebel @Draggingtree

 

What 1st raised a red flag for me was the length of time it would have taken to get air support over Benghazi. (if memory serves) 12 hours to arm & launch 2 fighter aircraft and a tanker! Give me a break! I may have been born at night....but it wasn't last night.

[Valin]

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Guy Benson
Dec 08, 2015

Before we circle back to Hillary's statement on ABC News' This Week, let's lay some groundwork first. During her sworn testimony before the Benghazi Select Committee in October, Hillary Clinton was confronted with evidence that she had a clear-eyed understanding of the nature of those attacks within hours of their occurrence. On the night of the attack, she sent an email to her daughter lamenting that several American "officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al Queda-like group." The next morning, she sent the following assessment to a top Egyptian diplomat:

 

 

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