Just When you Think the Libya Story could not get worse, it does!

The event in Benghazi on 9-11 when terrorists attacked the US embassy and killed four people including the ambassador can only be described as terrible. We already knew that the White House received requests from the embassy for increased security prior to the attack but did nothing. We also knew that president Obama was told about the attack within minutes of its beginning but did nothing; indeed, he later went to Las Vegas for a fund raiser while these Americans in Libya were still under attack. We also knew that Obama and his administration lied to the American people for two weeks with regard to whether or not this was even a terror attack or just some crazy response to a youtube video. Earlier this week, we learned that the Pentagon had assets in the area that could have assisted the folks at the embassy during the eight hour attack, but did nothing. It seemed that nothing worse could come out. Then came today's news: Within minutes of the attack starting, the men at the CIA annex in Benghazi who were a few blocks from the embassy heard the gunfire and mortar explosions coming from the embassy. They radioed to their superiors and requested permission to go to help the folks under attack at the embassy. They got word from Washington to do nothing. The CIA folks tried again. They again described the situation and asked permission to go to rescue the people under fire at the embassy. They were again told to stay put and do nothing. Let me be clear: what this means is that Washington told local American forces who could have helped to sit out the fight and leave the embassy personnel to their fate. What happened next is that three men from the CIA annex disobeyed orders and went to the embassy to help defend the place. These were the people who managed to rescue those who remained inside and to sneak them off to the CIA annex. They also recovered the body of the first American to be killed.

But it gets worse. About an hour later, the same terrorists who had attacked the embassy began firing mortars at the CIA installation. CIA personnel were able to illuminate the site of the mortar with a laser, so that American air power could easily have taken out those who were firing at the CIA (who were also those who had killed the ambassador and others). The CIA station made a direct request for help from the US military. America had plenty of assets in the area that could have responded in twenty minutes at the most. Washington again refused to provide assistance!

Leon Panetta said yesterday that the USA could not send armed forces into a situation in Benghazi when it did not know what was happening. There were unarmed surveillance drones flying overhead. There were cables from the embassy itself. There was a strem of information coming from the CIA annex. Americans were under fire. Americans were being killed. The Obamacrats did nothing. NOTHING!!!

The whole response to the attack (about which we had advanced warning) was so incredibly poor, that it is no wonder that Obama and the Obamacrats lied about it for all that time. They surely hoped that they could keep it out of the press just until election day. This disgrace is sufficient, by itself, to justify Obama's defeat on election day. We deserve a president who will care more about protecting Americans than about his re-election.