This pokes giant holes in virtually all the Obama Regime’s excuses about Benghazi:
Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation’s top civilian and uniformed defense officials — headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama — were informed that the event was a “terrorist attack,” declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president’s Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward.Gen. Carter Ham, who at the time was head of AFRICOM, the Defense Department combatant command with jurisdiction over Libya, told the House in classified testimony last year that it was him who broke the news about the unfolding situation in Benghazi to then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The tense briefing — in which it was already known that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens had been targeted and had gone missing — occurred just before the two senior officials departed the Pentagon for their session with the commander in chief.
According to declassified testimony obtained by Fox News, Ham — who was working out of his Pentagon office on the afternoon of Sept. 11 — said he learned about the assault on the consulate compound within 15 minutes of its commencement, at 9:42 p.m. Libya time, through a call he received from the AFRICOM Command Center.
“My first call was to General Dempsey, General Dempsey’s office, to say, ‘Hey, I am headed down the hall. I need to see him right away,’” Ham told lawmakers on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on June 26 of last year. “I told him what I knew. We immediately walked upstairs to meet with Secretary Panetta.”
Ham’s account of that fateful day was included in some 450 pages of testimony given by senior Pentagon officials in classified, closed-door hearings conducted last year by the Armed Services subcommittee. The testimony, given under “Top Secret” clearance and only declassified this month, presents a rare glimpse into how information during a crisis travels at the top echelons of America’s national security apparatus, all the way up to the president.
Also among those whose secret testimony was declassified was Dempsey, the first person Ham briefed about Benghazi. Ham told lawmakers he considered it a fortuitous “happenstance” that he was able to rope Dempsey and Panetta into one meeting, so that, as Ham put it, “they had the basic information as they headed across for the meeting at the White House.” Ham also told lawmakers he met with Panetta and Dempsey when they returned from their 30-minute session with President Obama on Sept. 11.
Source: FoxNews
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Hey, I never claimed to be in law enforcement!
Oh yeah, I remember those wooden drawers in the back of their trucks. You always push my nostalgia buttons, George!
It be alrite. Obama. Be stronge
O stfu you think obama was the first. Get over it your whole government both parties are to blame now stfu and get over it that his dark skin.
Are we supposed to be surprised? I would only be surprised if he TOLD THE TRUTH.
On sept 12 th I knew.. Cause I knew they would call him and chillary within minutes… Doesn’t anyone have a thrd eye..
HANG THAT TRAITOR !!~ AND MURDERING MUSLIM WAR CRIMINAL !!~.. HUSSEIN OBAMA !!~ AND THE MEMEMBERS OF HIS ILLIGETIMATE AND CRIMINALLY CORRUPT MUSLIM COMMUNIST REGIME !!~ALONG WITH THE STINKING COWARDS OF THE TREASONOUS RHINO PARTY WHO CONSPIRE WITH THEM & LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THERE HIGH CRIMES ! HIGH TREASON ! MURDER ! AND WAR CRIME’S !!~
OF COURSE OBAMA DID, HE HAD HILLARY SET THEM UP!!
Obama is a big part of the reason the WAS an attack.
Roger Abshire, did Obama cause the 13 embassy attacks during George W Bush’s Administration that resulted in a total of 60 deaths including 10 Americans?