UPI
July 31, 2013

A Marine operations commander told lawmakers Wednesday he gave troops in Libya permission to respond to a September 2012 attack on a U.S. mission in Tripoli.

Testifying in closed session before the House Armed Services Committee, Col. George Bristol contradicted claims by some congressional Republicans he had issued a stand-down order following the attack, in which U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stephens and three other Americans were killed, The Hill reported.

Bristol, who commanded Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara at the time of the attack, said he gave the Tripoli security team leader, Lt. Col. S.E. Gibson, permission to act freely in response to the attack, The Hill said, citing a description it had received of the committee's members-only briefing.

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these sleaze balls at the top know the greatest goal: to protect the CIC, keep Obama in power.

logic tells you that a stand down order would indicate that some action was being initiated. you don't tell an inactive soldier to stand down.

a military response to an attack like this would be automatic and rehearsed with multiple contingencies.

to thwart these procedures from being initiated a stand down order would be required.

Stand down or "Do Nothing" seems to be a new policy which makes the outlying posts like Benghazi ridiculously vulnerable to military threats.

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #3

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these sleaze balls at the top know the greatest goal: to protect the CIC, keep Obama in power.

logic tells you that a stand down order would indicate that some action was being initiated. you don't tell an inactive soldier to stand down.

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