Fox News analyst Bret Baier sat down with three former CIA security contractors— Kris (“Tanto”) Paronto, Mark (“Oz”) Geist, and John (“Tig”) Tiegen—who recounted the battle they waged with Al Qaeda terrorists at the Benghazi compound in Libya.
Their ordeal is described in detail in a book titled “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi”.
The interview gives a graphic account of the frustration, anger, and courage of those who sacrificed their lives in an attempt to rescue the trapped embassy personnel:
A U.S. security team in Benghazi was held back from immediately responding to the attack on the American diplomatic mission on orders of the top CIA officer there, three of those involved told Fox News’ Bret Baier.
Their account gives a dramatic new turn to what the Obama administration and its allies would like to dismiss as an “old story” – the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
……Based on the new book “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi” by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team, the special sets aside the political spin that has freighted the Benghazi issue for the last two years, presenting a vivid, compelling narrative of events from the perspective of the men who wore the “boots on the ground.”
……Baier, Fox News’ Chief Political Anchor, asked them about one of the most controversial questions arising from the events in Benghazi: Was help delayed?
Word of the attack on the diplomatic compound reached the CIA annex just after 9:30 p.m. Within five minutes, the security team at the annex was geared up for battle, and ready to move to the compound, a mile away.
“Five minutes, we’re ready,” said Paronto, a former Army Ranger. “It was thumbs up, thumbs up, we’re ready to go.”
But the team was held back. According to the security operators, they were delayed from responding to the attack by the top CIA officer in Benghazi, whom they refer to only as “Bob.”
……“It had probably been 15 minutes I think, and … I just said, ‘Hey, you know, we gotta– we need to get over there, we’re losing the initiative,’” said Tiegen. “And Bob just looks straight at me and said, ‘Stand down, you need to wait.’”
……“We’re starting to get calls from the State Department guys saying, ‘Hey, we’re taking fire, we need you guys here, we need help,’” said Paronto.
After a delay of nearly 30 minutes, the security team headed to the besieged consulate without orders. They asked their CIA superiors to call for armed air support, which never came.
They were delayed three times before they said to hell with orders and set out to rescue Ambassador Stevens and the others.
Questions the Obama regime refuses to answer:
Who gave the official order and who was on the phone with “Bob” when he told them to stand down?
Who sent the drone to be used as a voyeur instead of a counter-attack weapon?
Who in the State Department made the decision to pull out three Mobile Security Deployment teams in August of 2012, telling the embassy to “do more with less”?
Who kept refusing to send extra security to the embassy?
Who exactly in the Obama regime went to all the trouble to scour the bowels of the YouTube library for an obscure video to blame for what was part of the muzzie rampage that had been going on for 21 months?
Actually,we already know.
Obama denied outright an urgent request to send more security to the embassy. He lied about what he knew, and his flying monkeys tried to squelch Fox News investigative reporting surrounding the attack.
The intelligence community identified the terrorists within 24 hours. Two days after the attack, Hillary Clinton had a meltdown at a Congressman over the point that it was indeed Al Qaeda.
A run down of Hillary’s bullshit:
“What difference does it make?
“Benghazi security wasn’t my problem”.
Hillary blamed ‘lack of funding’ and amnesia.
An innocent filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, was used as a scapegoat for Obama and Hillary’s coverup. As a matter of fact, the attack was still underway when Hillary and the White House concocted a “blame the video” strategy, in an attempt to offset the fallout from their stupidity and incompetence. She knew the narrative was a lie but she pushed it anyway.
Hillary’s State Department spent months blowing off Ambassador Stevens’ repeated requests for extra security and his concerns over the growing terrorist violence in the area.
Here’s a link to a video of Fox News reporter Bret Baier reading (at about 06:45 into the video) the emails from Ambassador Stevens to the State Department, one of which is just 4 hours prior to the attack. Each one was a desperate plea for more security in the face of growing terrorist violence in the area.
Obama and Hillary showed nothing but depraved indifference from the first sign of trouble to the horrible aftermath.
Those poor guys really never stood a chance.
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http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/new-eyewitness-accounts-of-benghazi-attack/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/benghazi-whistleblowers-testimony-08-may-2013-with-updates/