BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWER CONFIRMS: SPECIAL FORCES TOLD TO ‘STAND DOWN’

According to the latest from CBS News, one of Wednesday’s testifying witnesses on the September 11 Benghazi terror attack will explain how a team of U.S. Special Forces was prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi to fend off the attackers, but was expressly forbidden from doing under orders from the U.S. Special Operations Command South Africa.

The witness? Slain Ambassador Chris Stevens’ deputy, Gregory Hicks:

Quote:According to excerpts released Monday, Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA commander Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound “when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, ‘you can’t go now, you don’t have the authority to go now.’ And so they missed the flight … They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it.” [...]

Hicks told congressional investigators that if the U.S. had quickly sent a military aircraft over Benghazi, it might have saved American lives. The U.S. Souda Bay Naval Base is an hour’s flight from Libya.

“I believe 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,” Hicks testified. Two Americans died in the morning mortar attack.

Hicks’ account of the ‘stand down’ order directly conflicts with the Obama administration’s official account of the events surrounding the attack and insistence that no U.S. military forces could reach Benghazi in time to act.

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