A chain of emails exchanged between the State and Defense departments on the night of Sept. 11, 2012 suggest Obama administration officials lied to Congress when they testified there was no attempt to rescue Americans from the besieged U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Not only do the emails confirm, in writing, that the military were armed and ready to take off, but that the rescuers were given a virtual “stand down” order by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Jeremy Bash, then the Defense Department’s chief of staff, wrote in an email to top aides to Hillary Clinton the night of Sept. 11, 2012 that Gen. Martin Dempsey and the Joint Chiefs of Staff had “identified the forces that could move to Benghazi.”“They are spinning as we speak,” Bash wrote within hours of the start of the attack.
While parts of the email were redacted, the message indicates the Pentagon was waiting for approval from the State Department to send the forces in. That help never arrived for the Americans under siege at the Benghazi compound…
…The newly disclosed email chain casts doubt on previous testimony from high-level officials, several of whom suggested there was never any kind of military unit that could have been in a position to mount a rescue mission during the hours-long attack on Benghazi.
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