Op-ed: 

Another Benghazi Email...More Trouble for Obama and Crew 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots

“If we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them.” 
- Gregory Hicks, then Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the happenings at Benghazi on September, 11, 2012.

Oh dear...it seems Hillary and Obama are in trouble yet again as 'sticks and stones' might NOT break their bones but lies told concerning Benghazi will surely hurt them. And rightfully so I might add as once again they're being exposed courtesy of a Judicial Watch 'Freedom of Information Act' (FOIA) lawsuit, and who just a few days ago released a two-year old previously unseen by 'We the People' Benghazi email bearing the subject line 'Libya'.

Sent from the Pentagon's then Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash to the State Department's top deputies at 7:19 p.m. EST on the night of September 11, 2012, the email urged them to accept the offer of “forces that could move to Benghazi” in time to help diffuse the terrorist attack on the compound...contradicting both Hillary's and then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's testimony that NO forces were available and within reach to provide 'help' to the compound that was under siege.

“I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S...a reference to then- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...and after consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.” were the words in Bash's email.

And this Obama and Hillary hoped 'NEVER-to-be-exposed-email' was sent to Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan; Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman; and Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Thomas Nides amongst others, but it appears NOT to Hillary herself, and sadly arrived after the first attack had already resulted in the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and Information Officer Sean Smith. However, it did arrive before a mortar strike on the CIA annex killed Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty during what turned into an eight-hour siege on the compound.

But most importantly this email directly contradicts the February 2013 testimony given by Leon Panetta before the Senate Armed Services Committee, proving his words that, “time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response,” were NOTHING but a lie told under oath...a serious and punishable offense of its own.

And in further dishonoring the memory of those lost at Benghazi comes the fact that the Obama administration also redacted the details of the above said military forces available from the official Benghazi report citing a 'Freedom of Information Act' (FOIA) exemption...an exemption that allows for the withholding of so-called 'deliberative process' information...information the Obama administration claims would negatively affect national security.

So what actually has been disclosed in this email...to me and my Right Side Patriots partner and friend Craig Andresen...it screams loudly of something that we stated from day one in our 3-part series, 'Benghazi...The Truth Exposed'... http://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/p/investigative-articles-from-time-to.html...that a 'stand down' order of sorts was indeed given by the Obama administration for now it appears that all that was supposedly needed for 'help' to be sent was a State Department 'sign-off' which did NOT happen.

And why didn't it happen...because (I believe that) Hillary and her State Department simply did NOT want it to happen. Remember, neither she nor Obama could risk having their (in my opinion) involvement in the illegal gun and weapons running operation to the anything-but moderate Syrian rebels exposed...even though her job description legally includes ensuring the protection of the U.S. government to American citizens, property, and interests in foreign countries. And to make this even more grievous, Obama and Hillary both knew that immediate military assistance could have made a difference between life and death for those trapped at the CIA Annex...could have saved those who knew about the above said illegal operation.

So, a Special Operations team of six security officials from Tripoli along with a Libyan military unit went to Benghazi on their own accord to provide at least some support during the waning hours of the attack. And after the attack was over, only then were 'military assets' used to recover the bodies of the dead, to remove some but NOT all of those wounded, and to evacuate U.S. personnel from Libya on the one U.S. plane that Obama made available for this task. What a sad commentary for America's Commander-in-Chief, who basically did NOTHING but watch in real-time and I suppose smile as Americans died.

And while some, including the left-leaning 'Media Matters' website, claim that this newly disclosed email in NO way contradicts Panetta's under oath testimony, they are playing a game of word semantics to the affect that Panetta's testifying that forces had been deployed that night, but that the above said, "time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response,” is certainly NOT true as the attack lasted almost throughout the night and Tripoli, where U.S. forces were stationed, was only 404 miles away by land...361 nautical miles away by sea...meaning U.S. military 'help' by air could have arrived within an hour or less while the attacks were still ongoing.

“Soon after the initial reports about the attack in Benghazi were received, General Dempsey and I met with President Obama, and he ordered all available DOD assets to respond to the attack in Libya and to protect U.S. personnel and interests in the region. It's important to remember that in addition to responding to the situation in Benghazi, we were also concerned about potential threats to U.S. personnel in Tunis, Tripoli, Cairo, Sana'a and elsewhere that could potentially require a military response,” is part of what Penetta said before the committee...lied actually...but why pray tell worry about “potential threats” that have yet to happen when an actual attack is ongoing...ongoing and where Americans are dying.

Kind of knocks the wind out of 'Media Matters' argument now doesn't it especially when you add in that Panetta also testified that, “Only 12 hours after the attacks had begun, all remaining U.S. government personnel had been safely evacuated from Benghazi,” which directly contradicts the words of Benghazi survivor, Diplomatic Security Agent David Ubben, one of the only survivors to have witnessed both attacks in Benghazi, and the man who waited for over 20-hours for help to arrive after fighting alongside Navy SEALS Doherty and Woods. Stranded on the rooftop with a 'shredded leg,' NO medical aircraft was sent to the compound to get him out...NO help at all was sent for him for just a few hours short of a full day...so much for Penetta's statement...for Panetta's lie...that all remaining personnel were taken out of Benghazi within 12 hours.

So could Judicial Watch's newly disclosed email be the piece of the Benghazi puzzle that finally allows all the pieces to fit together...I believe it is as this email shows that NOT only did Obama, Hillary, and Penetta, lie about the happenings before, during, and after the attacks at Benghazi, but it also shows that some other statements Panetta gave under oath, including that Obama was “simply absent” despite being told that the Benghazi attacks were ongoing, and that Obama did NOT call or communicate with him during that night at all, but that “we were aware that that information [concerning the ability to send help] went to the White House,” are actually contradictions of sorts.

And how so...because how could Panetta “be aware” that the White House received information which included the offer of 'help', and then NOT admit before the Senate Armed Services Committee that since Obama did receive these critical emails and willingly chose to do NOTHING to help those trapped and under attack at the compound, leads one to rightfully believe that Barack HUSSEIN Obama himself in his role as Commander-in-Chief refused to authorize any 'help', and in his NOT authorizing any 'help' translates into the same thing as ordering what 'help' was available to 'stand down'.

And while many still want to believe that Hillary was the one who ordered 'help' to 'stand down' what they forget is that under the Constitution a ‘stand down’ order follows a specific chain of command, and the one relating to Benghazi would go like this, in order from top to bottom...President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary’s of the various armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the various Chiefs of Staff for each military service, the Commanding General for AFRICOM, and the local command structure under AFRICOM...and NOWHERE in that pecking order is the Secretary of State.

So why didn't Penetta himself...who was in that pecking order in his role of Secretary of Defense...order 'help' to go in after the State Department and Hillary refused to do so...the only possible reason is that Obama had already issued the 'stand down' order, and he would have had to go against Obama in order to do so...which by the way would have been the right and honorable thing to do.

And while Hillary acted 'inappropriately' in doing NOTHING to help prevent American deaths, in her capacity as Secretary of State she could have influenced...insisted... that Obama give the order to send in 'help'...but she instead willingly and maliciously chose to do NOT a thing. So she too is just as guilty of being an accessory to murder...to treason...as is Barack HUSSEIN Obama, while Leon Penetta has been shown to be a weak, cowardly, Secretary of Defense who also did NOTHING but watch as Americans died.

And all this is proven thanks to Judical Watch and its one little, now in the public venue, email. Now if Congress would just grow a 'set' and do something about it, 'housekeeping' could be getting GITMO ready for its newest additions...just saying. 

Op-ed:
The newly released bi-partisan Benghazi report tells us NOTHING we didn't already know
By: Diane Sori

"In spite of the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi and ample strategic warnings, the United States Government simply did not do enough to prevent these attacks and ensure the safety of those serving in Benghazi.”
- Senator Saxby Chambliss, ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee.

Well our ever-LYING, traitor-in-chief and his cohort in crime Hillary 'What Does It Matter' Clinton are in big trouble...as they should be...as the ghosts of Benghazi have come back to haunt.

Benghazi can now NO longer be called a 'phony scandal' by Barack HUSSEIN Obama or by Hillary Clinton for the bi-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee's just released 'supposedly' comprehensive 85 page report...that is anything but...officially stated what some of us have said since day one...that the attack on our Benghazi compound was indeed a preventable terrorist attack and that any and all policy for handling the attack aftermath was done for political expediency alone.

Calling to task the entire Obama administration's response to Benghazi and to the fact that 15 people who tried to help the FBI investigate the attack have been killed, this report still rightly faults Hillary's State Department for failing to increase security after deliberately ignoring Ambassador Stevens' many pleas for help, and despite “ample strategic warnings” from the CIA stating that because the danger of militant attacks was increasing throughout eastern Libya, that U.S. personnel “were at risk.”

"The bottom line is Hillary Clinton wanted the appearance of normalization" in Libya...Security was not driving these decisions. Politics was," said Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Republican on the House Oversight Committee.

Yet NOTHING about Benghazi was normal as Benghazi became and remains despite this anything but 'comprehensive report,' a tale of murder, cover-ups, and LIES all put in place to protect at all costs the 'anointed one' and the woman next in line to that title. And yet NO matter how those in Obama's orbit try to divert the truth, the fact remains that the attack on Benghazi was terrorism...TERRORISM...and that fact must NO longer be glossed over.

And this report comes late to the critical fact that Barack HUSSEIN Obama knew damn well that both he and Hillary were LYING through their teeth when they deliberately, calculatingly, and with malice intended, intentionally told 'We the People' over and over that the attack that claimed the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and ex-Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty was because the what were 'peaceful' demonstrations over the video got out of hand.

This report NO matter its true intentions...whether good or bad...tells us NOTHING we already didn't know even as it lays out that in the first hours after the attack began that every single Pentagon military briefer and defense department official...including General Carter Ham (then head of AFRICOM) and Marine Corps Colonel George Bristol (commander of AFRICOM's Joint Special Operations Task Force for the Trans Sahara region)...who briefed the White House referred to Benghazi as a terrorist attack and NOT as a response to an anti-American demonstration to a poorly made YouTube video critical of mohamed and islam.

In fact, then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey told those on the House Armed Services Committee (the committee conducting the actual investigation) that when they briefed Obama as the attack was ongoing, that it was al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda's regional affiliates (AQIM, Ansar al-Sharia, AQAP, and the Mohammad Jamal Network) who orchestrated and carried out the attack. And when Republican committee member Senator Jim Inhofe (OK) asked whether Panetta...who directly briefed Obama...believed "unequivocally" at the time that it was a terrorist attack, Panetta said, "There was no question in my mind that this was a terrorist attack."

Also faulting the intelligence agencies for NOT telling the U.S. military in Libya about the existence of the CIA outpost at the Benghazi compound, the report NEVER touches upon the possibility that maybe the omission was deliberate on the intelligence agencies part because they were covering for the CIA who themselves had something to hide...as in their duplicity in helping Obama run guns and weapons to the al-Qaeda backed Syrian rebels...just saying.

Simply, the President of the United States knowingly and willfully LIED to the American people, to the victim's families, to the media, and to our troops in the field that a farce of a video cost four Americans their lives. And he did this because (I believe) he had to cover-up his own...and possibly Hillary's...involvement in a constitutionally ILLEGAL and outright criminal guns and weapons smuggling operation to the al-Qaeda backed Syrian rebels that Ambassador Stevens found out about and was going to expose...I have said this since day one and I stand by these words.

Obama knew the truth about Benghazi being a carefully planned terrorist attack opportunistically coordinated to mark the 9/11 eleventh year anniversary...he knew it all along and I still wonder if he had a direct hand in it as Stevens had to be silenced at all costs...yet he spewed...as did Hillary...his carefully concocted LIE in the hopes that Benghazi...along with its four 'bumps in the road'... would just go away especially with the presidential election coming up. And this thought is critical for I believe Barack HUSSEIN Obama hoped that his LIES would help Benghazi go away so that his standing by his video bloviations would appear to his muslim brethren...to whom his true allegiances lie...that he was defending the prophet mohamed against the American infidels.

You think I'm kidding...I'm NOT as Obama's actions or lack thereof NOT only in relation to Benghazi, but in relation to Iraq and Afghanistan as well, speak volumes as to whose side he's really on. And proof of that is that the report cited the failure of the Obama administration to "bring the attackers to justice," meaning nobody believed to be involved in the attack or in the cover-up of the attack...as in Hillary Clinton...has gone to jail yet alone been arrested...that is except for the hapless Coptic film maker who made a cheap YouTube video showing mohamed and islam to be the joke we all know they are.

“I hope this report will put to rest many of the conspiracy theories and political accusations about what happened in Benghazi," said Intelligence Chairwoman Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) upon the report's release, but truth be told all this report does is raise even more questions...questions that must be answered for a sitting U.S. president NOT only LIED to the American people...again...but might also be complicit in the death of four Americans who he watched die in real time before jetting off to yet another fundraiser...and that is NO conspiracy theory or political accusation...that is documented fact.

And so NO matter what the report states...or what the alphabet media decides to report or NOT report it states...the fact remains that Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his cohort in crime Hillary 'What Does It Matter' Clinton are still free to sit back in their cushy chairs relishing in the fact that for now at least they've pulled another one off on 'We the People'...oh where the hell is someone to arrest these two...where the hell are they...

Op-ed:

August 6, 2011...American heroes betrayed

By: Diane Sori

This past Saturday I had the honor of attending a luncheon event put on by the Tea Party of Fort Lauderdale, the nation's oldest continuously running Tea Party.  The featured speakers were Karen and Billy Vaughn whose Navy SEAL son Aaron was killed in the take down of what has now been referred to as call sign Extortion 17.  Extortion 17...the events surrounding the almost 50 year old CH-47D Chinook cargo helicopter that was NEVER intended for troop transport or for Special Operations missions...the helicopter shot down in Afghanistan's Wardak province killing all 38 people on board (30 Americans and 8 Afghan Nationals) including 17 members of Navy SEAL Team 6, five SEAL team support members including one service dog, three Air Force members, and five US Army and National Guard flight crew members.

17 members of SEAL Team 6...the most elite fighting force the world has ever known...the same unit that took out Osama bin-Laden...lost that day in what was the single most deadly day for the US Navy since the war began.

Shot down by the Taliban...something Barack HUSSEIN Obama still has trouble admitting...shot down with seven of the eight Afghans on board (one was an Afghan translator scheduled to be on the flight) substituted at the last minute for the original group that was on the flight manifest.  Perhaps shot down to silence SEAL 6 Team...perhaps shot down as revenge for the killing of Osama bin-Laden (in fact on May 6, 2011 just three short months before the helicopter was downed the Taliban did publicly vow revenge for bin-Laden's killing)...or NOT shot down but actually the victim of a suicide bombing committed by one of the seven who was NOT supposed to be on board.

Rumors abound...supposition and innuendos spoken of by people NOT in the know...by people who did NOT lose their loved ones in that crash like the Vaughn's did...'truths' that must be told to those like Aaron's parents who have unwaveringly searched for answers as to the whys...who have searched for and demanded the truth from this deceitful administration ever since they found out that their beloved son was on that helicopter...and the picture they are unraveling is NOT a pretty one.

The why is that the Afghan theater has now become a fiasco...a fiasco that turned a war we were once winning into a killing field with our troops the victims...the war that went sour when Barack HUSSEIN Obama allowed politicians to run the war instead of listening to the generals on the ground.  Four times between 2009 and 2011 Obama rejected the generals recommended advice concerning the Afghan theater...including announcing the dates for our troop's withdrawal...and in 2011 things started to seriously sour.

Now add in the 'altering' of the Uniformed Military Code of Justice...a code that comes right out of the Articles of War...a serious move on Obama's part to 'redo,' if you will, our military...including having women fight alongside men on a daily basis...done to appease the enemy...done to be 'politically correct...to win, as Obama likes to say, 'the hearts and minds of the enemy.'  But truth be told this president has our troops actually fighting under the banner of  'politically correctness' instead of fighting a war to win as our troops were trained to do.  This president does NOT want 'collateral damage'...does NOT want his brethren killed...forgetting or just ignoring the fact that it's the very 'collateral damage' he does NOT want that forces the enemy...any enemy...to lay down its weapons and surrender.

And the simple fact that standard tactics, techniques, and procedures were NOT followed that fateful day (such as NO pre-assault fire was allowed as the chopper came in to land)...just like they were NOT followed in Benghazi one year later...makes these deaths...this "reckless loss of life" as Billy Vaughn so rightfully puts it...ever the more so tragic for accountability for their deaths is being held hostage by those in power who hold the threat of prosecution over any and all who question their watered down accounting of that day's horrific events...who question the now 'politically correct' Rules of Engagement...rules that make the successful carrying out of a command mission almost impossible.

And then there's the added heartache inflicted upon the families of those lost that's almost too unbearable to write yet alone believe...for the bodies...the remains...of those heroes lost were damned to hell by a muslim imam when they were being readied for their last journey home...a last journey home where eight of the coffins were draped in the enemy's flag...an act of vileness like NO other...for it was this administration who allowed that imam to spew his evil words...it was this administration who allowed the eight coffins to be draped in the enemy's colors...it was this administration who could have simply said NO...but did NOT.

Is the Obama administration so hateful of our military as to deliberately and with malice be willing to spit in the face of plain common decency just for their own fame...just for their own egos...just for their own selfish political gain.  It's NOT just a strong possibility but is the harsh reality of a group of men...especially of Barack HUSSEIN Obama...who can sink so low as to use the return home of the remains of those lost as a photo-op for themselves when the families specifically asked that photos NOT be taken so they could cry...so they could grieve...in private as the bodies of their loved ones were returned to the country they gave their lives for. 

And could misspeaks...whether deliberate or NOT...by those in this administration been the precursor to these deaths...it is a strong possibility for to be the success that they are the Navy SEALS work in secrecy...to stay under the radar so to speak so they can do what we dare NOT speak about.  And now in the months leading up to August 6, 2011, they were outed...NOT only to the American public but to the enemy as well.  Could the fact that on more than one occasion Vice-President Joe Biden named SEAL Team 6 as the ones who took out bin-Laden...could that have set the wheels in motion for SEAL Team 6's demise...it is a strong possibility.  Could former CIA Director Leon Penneta' s revealing the name of the SEAL Team unit and its leader to screen writer Mark Boal at a 2011 awards ceremony have led to the events of August 6th...it's a strong possibility.  Could the access to documents and supposedly classified information Obama gave to director Kathryn Bigelow for her movie about Bin-Laden's take down have contributed to the killings...it's a strong possibility. 

And worse...could our military hierarchy (NOT the rank and file) actually be complicit NOT in the killings of course but in the cover-up of truths so grievous as to compromise our national security... more questions that remain unanswered.

And so the Vaughn's quest for those answers began but their questions were and still are many...too many for me to expound upon in a mere op-ed...too many for me to risk a misspeak that could cause this family any more pain than they're already feeling. Billy Vaughn's book 'BETRAYED: The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL's Father' can explain his and his family's journey for the truth so much better than I ever could...I recommend you get a copy and learn the sad truth of the pain this administration has inflicted upon one American family...times thousands.

And so tears fall NOT just for the Vaughns and for Aaron, but for all those lost that fateful day...for all those lost under Barack HUSSEIN Obama's watch due to his ineptitude and reckless unconcern for those who put their lives on the line daily...for those who fight to defend America as they keep us safe and free at home.  Mistakes, cover-ups, and LIES...the hallmark of an administration run amok is especially disturbing...especially shameful when it comes to our military for this president...this miserable excuse of a Commander-in-Chief...forces our military to fight with weapons NOT poised and ready for battle but with weapons put aside so as NOT to hurt the very ones out to kill us all. 

So as the elusive answers to the questions asked of what really happened on August 6, 2011 still remain untold...it's now up to us to demand those answers and to...as Billy Vaughn says..."defend the defenders" of our freedoms...for if we patriots do NOT do it who will.

Op-ed: 

'Stand down'...words from the mouth of a traitor  

By: Diane Sori

Benghazi…NO diversions, distractions, or ‘supposed’ phony scandals that are anything but, will take my focus off Benghazi. Benghazi…where four Americans were willfully, deliberately, and with malice left behind to be slaughtered, and that is indeed grounds for treason and NO one can convince me otherwise.

At the heart of Benghazi are two critical issues…first, why was Ambassador Stevens silenced (and I believe his murder was a silencing), and second, who gave the infamous order to ‘stand down’ when help could have arrived in time to save him and the others.

The first issue is easy…Ambassador Christopher Stevens had to be silenced to stop him from going public with information he found out about our traitor of a president, for I believe, and have said since day one, that Barack HUSSEIN Obama was smuggling guns and weapons under the table to the Syrian rebels…rebels supported and funded by al-Qaeda. And that is a clear cut case of ‘aiding and abetting the enemy’…TREASON.

The second issue is a bit more complicated as there are two distinct sides countering each other. One side, Obama and those in his orbit including sadly some in our military, say NO order to ‘stand down’ was given. The other side, those who demand the truth be told so there can be justice for the Benghazi 4 say YES such an order was absolutely given.

I obviously belong to that second group, and as such I decided to do some research on the chain of command in relation to issuing a ‘stand down’ order. What I found could give credence to the claim by many that Barack HUSSEIN Obama did indeed issue that order, and did so to cover his illegal unconstitutional dealings with a group of the most vile of terrorists (NEVER forget 9/11) for his goal is clear as his own words say it all…”I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”… words from page 261 of his book, ‘The Audacity of Hope’.

Issuing a ‘stand down’ order does follow a specific chain of command, and the one relating to Benghazi would go like this, in order from top to bottom…President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary’s of the various armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines), Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff, the various Chief’s of Staff for each military service, the Commanding General for AFRICOM, and the local command structure under AFRICOM.

ALL in the command chain below Obama have denied giving such an order, including then Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (remember, Dempsey testified that orders were given to assist in Tripoli but NOT to assist in Benghazi but NEVER telling who gave that order but we know it was NOT him). And all the military branch Chiefs have also said they gave NO such order. And while AFRICOM Commander General Carter Ham did give testimony in a closed door hearing before the House Armed Services Committee investigating Bengahzi, we still do NOT know his testimony, but know that if he had given such an order it would have been made public for all to hear for it would have cleared Obama, especially important because everything possible is being done to try and distance him from this event, especially after his nonsense about a YouTube video.

But NO such announcement assuming responsibility for that ‘stand down’ order has been made by General Ham so logic would dictate he gave NO such order. And remember, Panetta announced back in October 2012, that General Ham would be retiring for refusing to obey orders NOT to assist the US personnel in Benghazi on that fateful night, and that on Saturday, October 27th, Panetta confirmed that General Ham had indeed been ‘relieved’ of his AFRICOM command.

Now here is something interesting about the official command chain…neither the Vice-President nor the Secretary of State is in that chain. But, the Vice-President and the Secretary of State do have the authority through the President to countermand any one below the President. And while the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security Secretary influence military decisions (to some degree) through the National Security Act and through their advisory positions to the President, they do NOT have the authority to issue an actual ‘stand down’ order on their own as that can ONLY be done by those in the direct chain of command.

Yet according to whistleblower Gregory Hicks (the Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya at the time of Benghazi), who when testifying before Congress said that after the first attack a security team left Tripoli for Benghazi with two military personnel, and that four members of a special forces team in Tripoli wanted to go in a second wave but were ordered to ‘stand down’ (but he did NOT know who gave that order).

And remember even though many were close enough to assist and possibly save Ambassador Stevens and the others, including Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette, commander of a Navy Carrier Battle Group that was within range to help…including two Marine anti-terrorist teams based in Rota, Spain who were ready, willing, and able to help…and also including a 130-man, fully armed Marine Force-Recon unit on the ground in Sigonella, Sicily…all ready to deploy to Benghazi to help, yet all say they were told to ‘stand down’. And that ‘stand down’ order assured that Ambassador Stevens would die with Information Officer Sean Smith and ex-Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty becoming collateral damage…becoming just more ‘bumps in the road’.

So, the bottom line is if then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta did NOT give the order to ‘stand down’…if then AFRICOM General Carter Ham did NOT give the order to ‘stand down’…if General Dempsey, then Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff did NOT give the order to ‘stand down’…and if all the other then Commanders and Officers did NOT give the order to ‘stand down’…that leaves only one person who had the authority to give that order…the one person who had the most to lose if Ambassador Stevens survived…and that one person is Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

And that my friends is grounds for treason for this miserable excuse of a president has blood on his hands for NOT only willfully and maliciously leaving behind the Ambassador and the others, but I believe the issuing of that ‘stand down’ order assured they would die. And who knows maybe Obama even had a hand in planning the attacks…but that is only my opinion but a pretty good educated guess I’d say, especially knowing where this man’s loyalties lie…and those loyalties are most assuredly NOT with America.

Sad…it’s all so sad and until the truth is known…until those responsible are brought to justice…Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and ex-Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty cannot Rest in Peace…and that is the added salt in the wound that is Benghazi.

Op-ed: Benghazi...the only 'scandal' that can really take Obama down

By: Diane Sori

Benghazi...the ghosts of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and ex-Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty haunt me at times...haunt me because I know they CANNOT Rest in Peace while their killers roam free to continue to NOT only dishonor their memory but also to dishonor the soul of 'We the People'.

While I am NO investigative reporter I can connect the dots, and I can through deductive reasoning see truth hiding in a pile of nonsense...and 'We the People' are being fed just that...nonsense...by the Obama administration. And the worst part is that Barack HUSSEIN Obama and those who orbit around him know we know and simply don't care.

Over this almost year since that fateful night I have written many opinion pieces on the happenings at the consulate and given my supposition of why Benghazi happened in the first place...supposition first based on nothing but a gut feeling immediately after it happened but now being given credence by a chain of events that just CANNOT be ignored. I will now link them altogether and you tell me if what is my truth...(that Ambassador Stevens found out Obama was running guns and weapons to the al-Qaeda supported Syrian rebels under-the-table and was going to expose him, and so had to be silenced before he could)...is not 'THE' truth.

In the days and weeks leading up to September 11, 2012 Ambassador Stevens sent numerous e-mails to Washington, specifically to Hillary Clinton's State Department and to Hillary herself, begging for help for he was nervous after the thankfully failed attempt on the British Ambassador's life, but that these e-mails were ignored or deemed NOT relevant.

Now for the Obama version and time frame with my 'truth' in red italic.

According to the Obama bunch, the American consulate at Benghazi was attacked on September 11, 2012 by a spontaneous group of protesters (in reality it was attacked by a heavily armed muslim terrorist group comprised of between 125 and 150 gunmen using rocket-propelled grenades, RPGs, hand grenades, AK-47s, FNFT2000 NATO assault rifles, diesel canisters, mortars, heavy machine guns, and artillery mounted on gun trucks). The attack began during the night at the compound built to protect the main diplomatic building.  A second attack early the morning of the next day targeted a nearby CIA annex in a different compound, and that's where the four Americans died...but in reality where three Americans died (for Ambassador Stevens did NOT die there as claimed, he died after being taken very much ALIVE from the consulate and at the direct hands of the enemy for the bloody hand prints on the consulate walls are from someone who is being carried trying to hold on to whatever they could for dear life...as witnessed by the finger streaks pointing into the consulate...and in pictures showing a 'supposedly' dead Stevens having his left arm shielding his eyes or wiping tears from them, and dead men do NOT shield or wipe tears from their eyes).

Washington was informed about the attack just as it was beginning at about 9:40 local time (3:40PM Eastern Time). By 4:30 Eastern, Pentagon officials informed Defense Secretary Leon Penetta and Obama about the attack. The Pentagon then ordered an unmanned drone to fly over Benghazi. The drone arrived at 11:10 pm local time (5:10 pm Eastern Time) and began a video feed to Washington. At 5:41 pm Eastern Time, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton telephoned CIA Director David Patreaus to decide on a course of action...a course of action that amounted to NO help whatsoever (and here is where it starts to get dicey for Penetta, Clinton, and Obama all insisted that military forces were too far away to get to Benghazi in time to help. These three spoke an hour or so after the start of the attack yet Panetta told the Senate, under oath, that at that time the decision was made that help would NOT get to Benghazi in time...and to that I say how could they know that NO help would get there in time because how could they know how long the attack would be going on).

Telling his staff to handle the 'incident' occurring at Benghazi, Obama went to bed (or so he claimed) while the attack was still ongoing saying he had to leave early the next morning for a fund raising trip to Las Vegas. (Now here is what I find odd...what were Obama's whereabouts in the 8 or so hours he claimed to be sleeping and why knowing there was a phone in his bedroom did he, the president of the United States NOT ask someone...anyone...to keep him abreast of the deteriorating situation at the consulate knowing Americans were in danger. Did he really go to his bedroom NOT to sleep but to contact someone in Libya to make sure Stevens was dead...remember my supposition previously stated...and if so who did he contact during those hours, because his total lack of concern for his diplomatic staff is quite unnerving leading one to believe his actions heralded the start of a cover-up.).

Could Obama always have known that an attack would happen and what the outcome of the attack would be (because he knew what had to be done to Stevens) and the time frame it would occur in, thus allowing him to leave when he did, so he could say, 'I had nothing to do with whatever went wrong and you can't prove I did because I was in bed sleeping'. From Obama's track record we know where his loyalties truly lie I would NOT doubt for a minute that his actions or lack thereof speak volumes for remember, the following morning, even after finding out the tragic outcome of the night's events, off to Las Vegas he went.

Between September 11th and 17th, eight other diplomatic missions in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe were subjected to violent attacks (supposedly) in response to that poorly done YouTube video that criticized mohammad. And remember when on September 16, 2012, US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice went on five Sunday morning talk show circuit peddling the Obama approved 'talking points' that the Benghazi attack occurred because of said video (which she knew very well was NOT the case as those 'talking points' were changed at least 12 times to correspond with Obama's movements on that fateful night.).

And after it was proven that NO video of any kind had anything to do with what happened at Benghazi the blame game started, but instead of putting the blame where it belonged...as on Barack HUSSEIN Obama and Hillary Clinton...we were treated to Hillary's testimony before the House Committee investigating the Benghazi attacks. Remember when she said (after recovering from her 'boo-boo') the words that stunned the nation, “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?” “It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.”

Remember how the Obama bunch then tried to shift the Benghazi blame onto our military for their lack of response, but thankfully along came the whistleblowers to set things right when it was revealed that orders to 'stand down' were given so that our military could NOT respond to the attacks...and orders to 'stand down' could only come from the White House.

Remember when whistleblower Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Libya, told congressional investigators that there were two possible courses of action that could have saved American lives that night...allowing US special forces to enter Benghazi and flying a fast-moving U.S. military aircraft over the scene of the attacks...and remember that a team of US special forces in Tripoli was blocked from flying in to attempt a rescue of the embassy personnel...remember when we found out that that a Marine anti-terrorist team based in Rota, Spain, was ready to go assist in Benghazi, but reports claimed that it would have taken them 23 hours to get there when the truth is it would have only taken 3 hours and 5 minutes to get there.

Remember all that and now remember all the diversions to keep our attention off of Benghazi...the scandals...scandals ranging from the AP scandal to the IRS scandal to NSA scandal...each and every one used and manipulated to keep us away from the fact that only Benghazi is a true arrestable offense...that only Benghazi is grounds for treason being leveled against both Barack HUSSEIN Obama and Hillary Clinton...that only Benghazi is treason for aiding and abetting the enemy as in my supposition of Obama secretly running guns and weapons to the al-Qaeda supported Syrian rebels...and that supposition has now become an in-our-face reality that we taxpayers are footing the bill for.

So it's NOT Hillary's job to figure out what happened the night of September 11, 2012...it's 'We the People's' job to make sure that those who were indeed complicit in Benghazi are brought to justice...and that really boils down to Barack HUSSEIN Obama and Hillary Clinton...and only when that becomes reality can the ghosts of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and ex-Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty finally Rest in Peace.