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That article is all ate up.
Assuming that anyone in their right mind would have authorized an AC130U firing into a populated urban area of an (nominally) allied nation in the first place, a very unlikely eventuality, it would had to have been off station prior to first light due to the threat of portable surface-to-air missiles (the search for which is what had brought former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty to Lybia in the first place).
That's pretty much SOP for all AC130 missions anywhere in the world. I've read numerous accounts of them being pulled off station in both Iraq and Afghanistan due to daylight and I've heard personal accounts from guys who were on the ground fighting when it happened.
Consequently that aircraft wouldn't have been in a position to render any support to the fight on the ground at the time the insurgents (or whatever we're gonna call them) started in with their mortar attacks at the CIA annex.
A Special Forces team might have been able to render some support but you're talking about 12 guys with guns vs. a virtual sea of insurgents with heavy weapons. Our SOF are super men, but they're not Superman. I fail to see how 12 men, even 12 very, very well-trained men, would have made all that much difference.
If the aircraft had been sent it would likely have been mostly useless because there wasn't any serious sustained fighting at the annex until after sunrise and that assumes that the President would have given it permission to open fire into a civilian neighborhood.
If the SF team had been sent it's likely they would have died in place along with the former Navy SEALs.
Given the nature of that fight the author of that article is giving them far too much credit.
Then why all the secrecy, name-changing, hiding of witnesses?
It was a CIA operation in Benghazi. They usually don't give a lot of information about secret CIA gun running operations.
This woman is evil.
So are we to assume Jarrett is an unelected CIA goon?
This woman is evil.
I can't find one credible source for this -- all kinds of them, but nothing credible. Got one?
*Credible as in MSM?
No way!
Not saying it's verbatim because I don't know but, you won't see it on the front page [so to speak]
Since they went in the tank for Barry...duh!Since when did being mainstream become a insult? There is fringe media, and mainstream media. Which of the two is Prefered.
Mainstream media became an insult a long, long time ago when it became a pandering promoter of ideology rather than simply presenting the news.Since when did being mainstream become a insult? There is fringe media, and mainstream media. Which of the two is Prefered.
Yes. I heard sometime back the theory that Hillary had principles. I don't buy into that at all.Is there any conspiracy theory conservatives won't buy into?
Since they went in the tank for Barry...duh!
Yes. I heard sometime back the theory that Hillary had principles. I don't buy into that at all.
Mainstream media became an insult a long, long time ago when it became a pandering promoter of ideology rather than simply presenting the news.
Is there any conspiracy theory conservatives won't buy into?
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