***UPDATED***

Fox News has just learned that the Obama administration decided not to call into action the Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) which is a task force of specialists who specialize in hostage situations and terrorist attacks on any US interest. They also didn’t call into action the Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST) which is an interagency group that goes in and help facilitates after a terrorist attack.

Jennifer Griffin continued, noting that there’s a lot of frustration in the counterterrorism community because the decisions during the attack were isolated at the highest levels of the Obama administration and that counter-terrorism assets weren’t used in the initial hours and days :

According to my sources such senior level decisions included ruling out the immediate deployment of certain anti-terrorism personnel from multiple agencies as the attack was ongoing. The officials who I spoke to said that they are very concerned because it indicated that the decision making process in those initial hours and in the days afterward was very compartmentalized, the response process was isolated I’m told at the most senior level of the administration and there’s a great deal of frustration in the counterterrorism community that some of those counter-terror assets weren’t used in the initial hours and days.

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UPDATE: Here are two more articles for you to read on that have come out recently on Benghazi:

  1. Obama Met With Panetta and Biden at WH As Benghazi Terror Attack Unfolded
  2. Two U.S. officials tell Eli Lake that the State Department never requested military backup the night of the attack



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88 comments
TJinNJ
TJinNJ

General Ham and General Dempsey Better Speak Up NOW!!! Petraeus put it on Barry...

It's down to 4 possible TRAITORS, 2 we know are for sure...Ham, Dempsey you have a chance to be taken off the list.

Panetta's Own Words:

But -- but the basic principle here -- basic principle is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on; without having some real-time information about what's taking place. And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, General Ham, General Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.

colliemum
colliemum

Two more pieces to place in this 'puzzle': that FEST and CSG were not told to get involved as they were tasked to do - by 'higher authority'.

Could this mean Holder was involved in the aftermath, setting up an 'inquiry' so that it wold fail to find out anything?

Then the report by Eli Lake, where blame is laid at the State Dept, i.e. Hillary, for 'not having asked' for military support.

Ahahaha - Bathhouse Barry and his acolytes are now playing the point-the-finger game, and are trying to twist away from the fact that Bathhouse Barry was the one who said he gave orders ...

Finally - have the networks sitting on the e-mails, according to Newt, published them? No?

Four more days ...!

Jasper Silvis
Jasper Silvis

Bill Clinton wants Hillary to come clean to save her reputation (whatever she has left). I would not be surprised if Bill Clinton finds a way to leak sensitive information to try to clear Hillary, since she won't do that.

mediaaccess1
mediaaccess1

You guys have to watch the Glenn Beck show regarding the connections of gun running.

actionsspeaklouder
actionsspeaklouder

Cavuto tonight repeatedly stated that the other media outlets were finally covering this tragedy. I don't watch them (I refuse to), so I don't know if it's true. But, I wonder if our calls voicing our outrage had maybe a little something to do with them finally reporting the tragedy/coverup. If anyone watches (has the fortitude to watch, that is) MSM channels, are they reporting the truth, or just covering Obama's derriere and trying to confuse everyone? They HAVE to know this is bigger than Watergate. Their ratings will continue to tank if they ignore the story. I also wonder if they held off reporting it awaiting word from Obama/Soros on getting their story straight. All in tandem reporting the same lies - - I don't know, just my gut guessing. I would be suspicious of anything they "report" - and we all know why. I'd like to be wrong, but . . .

Jasper Silvis
Jasper Silvis

It would have to be the networks, since Chris Matthews on MSNBC recently said that "everyone knows it was the video". How can you honestly breathe with your head so far up Obama's arse?

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

The military was not called in because Obama did not WANT the military to get involved. This was all supposed to disappear and be swept under the rug with the more than willing assistance of a corrupt mainstream media. And now that only FOX News is doing the heavy lifting (along with a handful of reports from CBS news), the administration looking worse and worse as the days go by. One this is for sure, this administration did NOT have the backs of the people in Benghazi that night. Makes you kind of wonder who else they would sacrifice if they thought it would help them politically.

treasurecoast
treasurecoast

They were going to hold our ambassador hostage and trade for the Blind Sheikh . I believe that the Obama administration was behind it . My Opinion of course

hongryhawg
hongryhawg

Murderer. Still, the liberal minions support. Accessories to murder. Crime everywhere.

SaraPFan
SaraPFan

When the 3am call came in, Obama didn't know how to act. I fully doubt he and his senior advisors knows what is the protocol in the midst of a terrorist attack.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

After every new piece of information that comes out seemingly on a daily basis, I keep thinking that one of two things is going to happen.

Either, one, Obama is going to be forced to face the situation that is in front of him and finally answer to the people, or

Two, FOX news will inexplicably be shut down due to totally unrelated circumstances. I'm going to Vegas to see what the odds are on each.

Any takers?

actionsspeaklouder
actionsspeaklouder

Hmm, interesting scenarios. I want to hear more of them - more of a multiple choice. My instinct doesn't favor either one, or two. What else ya got?

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Uhhh, the people are kept in the dark, Obama gets reelected and we suffer for 4 more years, at which time he says he needs more time to straighten out the mess Bush gave him (all the while appointing 3 more lefty activist Supreme Court Justices).

actionsspeaklouder
actionsspeaklouder

Already a done deal, sir. We vote by mail here in Oregon. Dropped my ballot in the Ballot Box at our local library for daily pickup. Oregon may not go red, but, where I live, we have a large conservative population and I hope that we give the blue liberals a run for their money. Obama will not get the votes he did in '08.

Night now.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Your vote is a good start. :)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

I'll take just the first four. :)

actionsspeaklouder
actionsspeaklouder

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo! I want to read:

1. Romney wins by a landslide

2. Obama is put under House arrest

3. Hillary resigns

4. We all live happily ever after

How's that?

sjmom
sjmom

With each piece of news Benghazi gate shows the administration to be more incompetent. Either that or they just don't care. Take your pick but both are bad.

Spartan4Palin
Spartan4Palin

I have completely run out of words to vent my fury at this evil administration. This is the most grossly negligent group of people I have ever seen. I want so much to be able to write out what I feel and I can't.

What I am witnessing right now is a network and a brave set of reporters doing yeomen's work for those lost souls in Benghazi! This is more than tragic in scope. This is TREASON by this administration and complicity by the lapdog media!

We are beyond incompetence by these people. We are in dereliction of duty and murder.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

This just keep getting deeper and deeper...

The Traitor-and-Chief...

actionsspeaklouder
actionsspeaklouder

And he trots out today in his fancy bomber jacket all smiles and jovial like he hasn't a care in the world. Deception is so easy for him . . . it's his specialty. Lies and deception comin' up. No problem. He's been deceiving and lying his whole life. It's 2nd nature to him. It's who he is. It's his physiology.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

I couldn't agree with you more.

That visual that you just described, infuriates me to no end... especially when the Beghazi cover-up is busting wide open. He trots out like he's a hero or something and now suddenly, because he's losing in the polls, wants to apear Presidential or something... this bum has remained hidden for years and NOW makes an appearance when it suits HIM. Obama is a crook and pathological liar and the media and his cronies are working beyond overtime to keep the truth from the American people. I'm especially sickened by the media. They are criminal in their negligence.

Yep, Barry doesn't have a care in the world does he?

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

Agreed... the lemmings that support Obama, deserve their fate imo. But ALL of us will suffer from their stupidity.

This event on Monday will almost surely be an Obamafest. They can say anything they want and it will be nearly impossible for Romney to refute what they say. My hope is that if they do try and build up Obama during this hoaky event... I hope it backfires and Americans see this as a rally for Obama and NOT something designed to help people in need. As a result, I hope they're turned off by the most corrupt pResident to ever occupy the WH.

I pray that God wakes Americans up in time. This ridiculous election shouldn't even be close.

actionsspeaklouder
actionsspeaklouder

We all are going to be beside ourselves if Obama wins. It's going to be brutal for us. This weekend - celebrities are going to give a "Sandy relief concert" - yeah, right - you and I know it will be one big campaign extravaganza for the Liar. The mentality of far too many Americans is so corroded by wanting bright and shiny things to entertain them. Since these people have no substance - they will vote for someone who panders to them and gets them their "fix". It sickens me that it seems 47% of the American people can't see what a failure Obama is. They can't, and won't.

Malkiel_kol_hakavod_la_el
Malkiel_kol_hakavod_la_el

Barack Hussein Obama administration is the most inept of all the administrations of the past combined... The one thing that is abundantly clear from 4 years of proof this so called man should never been elected to the position he was and this is one of the worst blunders - mistakes - frauds - perpetrated on the American people by American people.....

Amjean
Amjean

Obama is a con artist. Nothing he has done is by mistake; it has

all been by design.

FreeManWalking
FreeManWalking

obo's MSM PAC sees Sandy as a DISASTER, while they see Benghazi as a inconvenience / nucisance.

I was sure Benghazi was going to have legs from the get go, and I thought as bad as they hate it the MSM PACs would have to cover it. but I was wrong on the latter.

When it does becomes a Major story in the American Mindset, I wonder and hope that those who depend on 0b0's PAC for their news turns on them for covering this up and they finely go under from lack of viewers.

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

This is the most devastating editorial against Obama so far please read it

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/benghazi-blunder-obama-unworthy-commander-in-chief-176736441.html

Martin2717
Martin2717

Just don't read the comments below the editorial. Filled with a bunch of stupid, ignorant libturds commenting just like they like to comment at every other news websites.

anotherworriedmom
anotherworriedmom

I read some of those comments. Notice that most of them follow the same pattern: destroy the credibility of the editorial writers.

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

Actually when I visited the site, I saw more comments praising the paper for it, maybe the drones got there now, but earlier there was a lot of people really happy with them.

actionsspeaklouder
actionsspeaklouder

Same here. There were more people thanking the Editorial Opinion for finally telling the truth than the liberal Obama defenders.

p m
p m

Compartmentalizing decision-making process at the highest administration level = Valerie Jarrett, el Supremo.

funkybarfly
funkybarfly

Obama went to bed because a few lives just aren't that important in his grand socialist scheme of things.Socialists don't mind when their own people are murdered for political expediency because it is usually them doing the murdering - It's what they have always done and will always do.

LiveFreeOrDie2012
LiveFreeOrDie2012

Now we know why they pushed the "video" story. To cover up their complete incompetence. Obama was that afraid of being seen as putting American troops into another Muslim country that he was willing to simply sacrifice a few Americans to save his political career. Shameful.

Amjean
Amjean

This was not incompetence.

Jasper Silvis
Jasper Silvis

Right, Amjean. Hillary calling the FBI to treat this as a crime and not an act of war was incompetence. Barack's desertion of our people under fire was treason.

gilamonster8
gilamonster8

It's looking more and more like state sponsored kidnapping gone wrong.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

You know, it's interesting how this administration wants to spin this situation. Either they were totally incompetent on foreign affairs due to seeking their own political survival or they were involved in a state-sponsored kidnapping, for political gain, gone wrong.

Either way you look at it and any possible way in between, it shows a man who is in no way acceptable as the President of the United States. The only way around it for Obama is to completely cover it up until after the election, whereby he will have 'more flexibility'.

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

Just another Islamic act. Nearly 20,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11/01. Benghazi is just typical Islam.

Jasper Silvis
Jasper Silvis

The biggest enemy for Muslims are other Muslims.