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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1046047" data-attributes="member: 1246">All eyes are on you, Barack.Via <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/petraeus-throws-obama-under-bus_657896.html" target="_blank">Weekly Standard</a>:Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/261936225106132993" target="_blank">this statement</a>: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate.”
So who in the <a href="http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/osama-bin-laden-dead-so-are-tyrone-woods-and-glen-doherty_657876.html" target="_blank">government</a> did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No.

It would have been a presidential decision. There was presumably a rationale for such a decision. What was it? When and why—and based on whose counsel obtained in what meetings or conversations—did President Obama decide against sending in military assets to help the Americans in need?
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[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1046047, member: 1246"] All eyes are on you, Barack. Via [URL="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/petraeus-throws-obama-under-bus_657896.html"]Weekly Standard[/URL]: [INDENT]Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out [URL="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/261936225106132993"]this statement[/URL]: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate.” So who in the [URL="http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/osama-bin-laden-dead-so-are-tyrone-woods-and-glen-doherty_657876.html"]government[/URL] did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? [I]Someone[/I] decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No. It would have been a presidential decision. There was presumably a rationale for such a decision. What was it? When and why—and based on whose counsel obtained in what meetings or conversations—did President Obama decide against sending in military assets to help the Americans in need? [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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