i don't want to even see this freak Obama and i am sick of running into this gossiping crap on the news. Obama should get back to work and do his job and figure out what they are going to do with tax cuts before i have to do my taxes. it will probably be like last year with them trying to make up their mind at the last minuet. wasting their time on this stupid crap and they have been saying all the time nobody broke the law. Disgusting.

Amazing how quickly he came to that conclusion, but how long it's taken to get the truth on Benghazi.......

You go ROB1067535, you couldnt have sounded any more less in touch with reality if you tried, Yes Obama got more done in 4 years than President Bush, He quadrupled our debt (more than any president ithe history of this land, he managed to drive our unempoyment up further than he promised to bring it to, he has apologized to all of the nations on behalf of all americans so that we are seen as a pacifist(Carter Jr), should I go on???????

while the Petraeus resignation has since dominated attention in Washington, an examination of the military’s version of events reveals a number of discrepancies and gaps worth closer scrutiny.

THE FIRST DISCREPANCY

The Defense Department timeline on the night of Sept. 11 begins at 9:42 p.m. local time and states, “The incident starts at the facility in Benghazi.”

Right from the start, the Pentagon and the CIA timelines do not match. (The CIA timeline, which was released on Nov. 1, states that at 9:40 p.m., “A senior State Department security officer at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi called the CIA annex and requested assistance.”)

A source at the CIA annex that night told Fox News that when they first asked to go and help, they were told to wait.

Within 17 minutes of the start of the attack, AFRICOM commander Gen. Carter Ham, who happens to be visiting Washington and was in the Pentagon that day, redirects an unarmed, unmanned drone to Benghazi.

PANETTA AND DEMPSEY ARE ALERTED 50 MINUTES AFTER ATTACK

At 10:32 p.m. (4:32 p.m. in Washington), 50 minutes after the incident began, the National Military Command Center, which is the operations center at the Pentagon where Ham is overseeing the operation, notifies Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey.

That means for nearly an hour, no one told the defense secretary and Joint Chiefs chairman that a U.S. ambassador is in peril and his personal security officer has pressed his “personal distress button” which sends an SMS signal back to the command authority in the U.S. and a U.S. embassy has been overrun by attackers.

A CIA team left for the consulate at 10:04 p.m. -- 28 minutes before the Pentagon says Panetta and Dempsey were told the attack had occurred.

Sources at the CIA annex in Benghazi told Fox News in an interview on Oct. 25 that they asked permission to leave for the consulate immediately and twice were told to wait. The CIA says the base chief was trying to arrange Libyan help.

PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED MEETING WITH PRESIDENT: 78 MINUTES AFTER ATTACK

At 5 p.m. in Washington, D.C. (11 p.m. in Libya), nearly an hour and a half after the attack began, according to the Pentagon’s timeline, “Secretary Panetta and General Dempsey attend a previously scheduled meeting with the President at the White House.”

The attack has already been under way for 78 minutes, but no rescue forces from outside Libya have yet been mobilized.

By 5:30 p.m. (11:30 p.m. in Libya), all surviving American personnel are rescued by the CIA annex team and leave the consulate for the CIA annex. From 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Pentagon, Panetta, Dempsey and Ham meet to discuss additional response options.

MORE CALLS FOR HELP

Upon returning to the annex, the CIA team and those that were rescued immediately begin taking fire and at midnight, according to sources on the ground that night, begin making radio calls for help and air support. Almost immediately, they begin taking fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.

According to a senior U.S. defense official, “This was not one long continuous fight, but two separate incidents at two separate facilities with some separation of time.”

However, British sources who were near the consulate and annex that night tell a different story, saying there was almost continuous fire on the annex after the team fled from the consulate.

Sometime over the next two hours, according to the official Pentagon timeline, Panetta gives the “go code” for two Marine FAST (Fleet Anti-terrorism Security) teams to prepare to leave Rota, Spain. A Special Operations force which is training in Central Europe is told to “prepare to deploy to an intermediate staging base in southern Europe (Sigonella, Sicily), and a Special Operations team in the U.S. is told to prepare to deploy to Sigonella as well.

It isn’t until 2:53 a.m. (about five hours after the incident began) that those orders are formalized by Panetta and the teams are told they can leave.

TEAM LANDS AT SIGONELLA 20 HOURS LATER

The Pentagon says that the European-based team of rescuers landed at Sigonella air base at 7:57 p.m. on Sept. 12, more than 20 hours after the attack began and 40 minutes after the last survivor was flown out of Tripoli on a U.S. C-17 transport plane.

Fox News has learned more details about the European rescue team. More than 30 Special Operations Forces, part of a Commander’s In Extremis Force, or CIF, which is normally on a short tether, are deployed in the event of a terror attack. They are a counterterror SWAT team.

The group ordered toward Libya was from the Charlie 110 Company, based in Stuttgart, Germany, but had been training in Croatia on an exercise known as “Jackal Stone.” The training involved counterterrorism exercises.

NO PERMISSION TO LAND

Military sources familiar with the orders given to the CIF team tell Fox News the CIF plane headed to Libya -- not to first stage at Sigonella as the Pentagon timeline suggests. The Pentagon denies this, saying simply that they were ordered to an intermediate staging base.

What cannot be confirmed is what time that team could have been outside Libyan air space. The Pentagon won’t say when they took off from Croatia.

Multiple defense sources say that the plane did not have permission to enter Libya. That permission would have to be secured from the Libyans by the State Department.

“FEET DRY OVER LIBYA”

Survivors of the attack at the annex say that they heard over the radio net that night that U.S. military assets were, “feet dry over Libya," which would refer to assets crossing from sea to land and hovering. The Pentagon denies this.

The original story board that shows the CIF movement that night is difficult to find, according to those who saw the original timeline. The official brief, according to those familiar with it, simply says that the plane landed at Sigonella at 7:57 p.m. on Sept. 12 -- 20 hours after the start of the attack, even though they were just a few hours away in Croatia.

This raises the question: what time did they get their orders and how long did it take the CIF to scramble?

The team was most likely flying on a modified MC-130 P Talon 2. A modified C-130 flying from Croatia about 900 miles from the Libyan coast could have been there under three hours from take-off. Croatia to Libya is the same distance approximately as Washington, D.C., to Miami.

Furthermore, the modified C-130 plane used by Special Operations teams can be refueled in flight, allowing them to extend their range and hover time, if an air refueling plane is available. It can fly for nine hours without being refueled.

“It’s not like you dial up the U.S. military and service members go down a fire pole, hop on a fire engine and go. That’s not how our forces work, especially from a cold start,” according to the senior U.S. defense official who briefed the Pentagon timeline. “We are an excellent military, finest in the world, always prepared, but we are neither omniscient nor omnipresent.”

The CIF, which included dozens of Special Operators, was never utilized to help rescue 30 Americans who had fought off attackers on the ground in Benghazi until 5:26 a.m. on Sept. 12. Pentagon officials say it did not arrive in time to help.

In the days following the attack in Benghazi, the CIF team was sent by Ham to Tunisia to remain on standby in case they were needed for other contingencies, such as a retaliatory strike, according to senior U.S. military commanders with knowledge of the operation.

“We were posturing forces to be ready for possible responses,” according to a senior U.S. defense official. “We were looking at the possibility of a potential hostage rescue.”

To date no retaliatory strikes have taken place, and questions remain about what could have been done to help those who were in peril on the ground.

According to the Pentagon timeline, the first conference call to AFRICOM, EUCOM, CENTCOM, TRANSCOM, SOCOM and the four military branches occurred nearly five hours after the attack began.

THE CIA RESCUE TEAM FROM TRIPOLI

Meanwhile in Libya, two hours and 48 minutes after the attack on the consulate began, a six-man rescue team organized by the CIA in Tripoli that included two Tier One Army Special Operators already in Tripoli on another assignment leave the capital to help.

However, they do not have a plane and end up chartering one too small to rescue the entire group in Benghazi and are required to make a round trip. They do not depart Benghazi with the last survivors and Ambassador Chris Stevens’ body until 10 a.m. the next day.

The CIA says that the Tripoli rescue team landed in Benghazi at 1:15 a.m. on Sept 12. The Pentagon says it landed at 1:30 a.m. Another official discrepancy.

More than four hours later, just before 5:26 a.m., former SEAL Glen Doherty, who arrived from Tripoli with the rescue team, and former SEAL Tyrone Woods are killed on the CIA annex roof by a mortar.

THE AMBASSADOR IS STILL MISSING

Security personnel at Blue Mountain Group receive a photograph of the ambassador’s body in a morgue at 7:15 a.m. At that point, Stevens’ body had still not been recovered from the hospital where Ansar Al Sharia, the presumed attackers, had surrounded it.

By 8:30 a.m., all KIA are accounted for, including the ambassador. The Pentagon’s critics say the president and defense secretary could have ordered more assets into Libya to help sooner.

Even by Wednesday morning, several challenges remained. Thirty Americans did not have a plane big enough to get them out of Benghazi; the U.S. consulate and CIA annex needed to be secured because sensitive documents remained at the consulate and annex; and an FBI team would eventually be held up in Tripoli and not be given access to the Benghazi sites for 24 days.

The two Marine FAST teams were not ordered to Libya until five hours after the attack was underway. The first FAST team didn’t arrive in Tripoli to secure the embassy until 8:56 p.m. on Sept. 12, nearly two hours after the rescued Americans had left Libya on a C-17 sent from Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The second FAST team of Marines slated to go to Benghazi was never sent to Libya. Libyan looters and journalists spent the next 24 days rifling through papers and potential evidence at the compounds.

According to the senior U.S. defense official who briefed reporters on the timeline, “There has been a great deal of speculation about the use of or desirability of military responses. Some have indicated manned and unmanned aircraft options would have changed the course of events. Unfortunately, no aircraft options were available to be used or effective.”

According to a source who debriefed those who were at the CIA annex that night, “When they asked for air support, they were told they could have an unarmed drone.”

Obama just said in the press conference that Susan Rice should not be excoriated for the false story she told on the Sunday talk shows 5 days after the event. Obama said she received her info from the White house! So Mr. Obama, are you admitting you sent her out there to propagate the lie of the video and a spontaneous attack even though it was very clear by then, from the Intel, it was a pre-planned attack? Mr. President wasn't it you who insisted during the second presidential debate that, you called it the day after our ammassador was killed, in your speech in the rose garden, a terrorist attack? So why then did you send Susan Rice out to lie to the American people?

Obama says "no breach" in Petreaus scandal, really? Like Obama said the attack at Benghazi was a "reaction to a vile movie and NOT a terrorist act?

i love the comments... I think the problem was people(re-pubs) focused too much on having a black president and not on the well being of the country. "our goal is to make sure Obama is a 1 term president." So now what LOL. This is going to be a great 4 years, people talk as if you can look out the window and see the country deteriorate right before your eyes (911).... Relax people after 8 years of BUSH, you guys can do it ....just keep the faith "YES WE CAN".

OBAMA 2012-2016!

first new conference in 8 months and we hear dont go after the un ambassador rice go after me what a joke he will probably invoke presidential privelege and not answer for anything he has been a big dissapointment in the first 4 years and i dont see much changing in the next 4 years then he says he will address the families about the benghazi incident and not do it at a press conference. what happened to all of the transparency the american public was to expect from him

"No evidence" of National Security harm since all evidence was covered up by the President's order.

obam gets a pass because he is black. The liberal press is too worried about being labeled "racist" to really investigate anything with this administration. Its a joke. "All In" should have been the title for a book with the MSM's love affair with obama.

Four years in and this loser is still blaming Bush. Yeah can't wait for the final four years of democracy.

There is no evidence that obama can speak the truth!

And if it was a breach of security were not going to tell you anyway. King Obuma

So why didn't his security get fired and investigated, when they were caught with a hooker in cuba, or brazil?

Obama said no one in Benghazi was hurt because Patreus was banging some babe in the back of his Humvee and all guns that were given to the Mexican cartels are lost and we will get to the bottom of it after the general is done getting to the bottom of it- and we will throw the General under the bus and blame him for all ills we now have including our mass deficits- stay tuned for more verity dodging and pugnacious pandering

obama is magic...how else do you get 108% of a vote in one county???

answer me that???

It has got where you can not trust our Nation ;leaders at ALL.

Never accepted responsibility for hanging the four Americans! He must have needed his beauty sleep for his Las Vegas fund raiser! Our Great Lord Obama just does a little soft shoe and moves on.

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TAHOE JAZZ I could care less if it was a asian, white, black, indian in charge, bottom line is alot have voted for him becuase of his color/and political party and not qualifications. If it was a republican in charge it would have been a differant story and we would have a 1 term president and he would be probalbly impeached by now, so stop balming people not liking him for his color, thats old school.

"I believe that investigation will determine that they had no role, that by the time the CIA could do anything, it was all over.”

WTF, two of the people killed were CIA that went to help after they were told not to.

Pres Obama looks like is ready to fight in his presidential speech today, i do hope that he fights effectively, John mccain is going to be antagonized pres not matter what, this is a man that ran with pres 4years ago and defeated,john mccain and others are mad, GOPs are not to be supportive and cooporative,this is conspiracy theory, in my own point of view GOPs are cowards.

Obamacites

Def: voters that support Barack Obama in his efforts to redefine the American system of government. The word is taken from the current definition of “parasite”, that is ”A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host and gets its food from or at the expense of its host”.

This great Community Organizer has successfully convinced half of the population that it is possible to feed on the efforts of rest of the population. Basically as in a household, you simply borrow the money to fund the efforts you want today and worry about repaying or defaulting on the loans at some future date(hopefully once someone else is in charge of the repayment).

I have to wonder how you Obamacites will feel in 4 years once you begin to see what it:

a. has cost you to give free health care to illegal aliens and the underemployed plus pay for the additional government workers to insure that they get it.

b. has cost you to bail-out the auto industries that could not make a profit in order to provide more government workers to regulate them and then direct where they can spend those given taxpayers dollars.

c. has cost you to bail-out the banking industries that over extended themselves in order again to provide more government workers to regulate them. This time to provide improved regulatory access to individual retirement accounts so that they could be “taxed” to help pay for you grasshoppers that never did save for the rainy days ahead.

d. has cost you to have an expanded department of energy with yet more government workers to regulate and insure that we will not spill another drop of oil on our pristine shores. Easy to insure if you are not drilling, eh grasshopper!

Obamacititis is welling up in America right now. Obamacites are tickled pink that we have four more years of building a larger government population. Soon over half of the country will be employed by or receive their living (food, medical, transportation, housing) directly from government agencies. How long will it take you grasshoppers to realize that the non-government employed half of the population cannot and has not been able to support your current lifestyle, thus the huge deficit?

Revel now but you should look to past governments in Europe and Asia that have employed the community organization strategy and see where this country is headed.

Why would anyone believe Obama when he says there is no evidence of "national security harm". This statement comes from the president of an administration that sat on knowledge of the Petraeus affair for months to minimize political fallout before the election. It comes from an administration who sent out Susan Rice to deceive Americans about the cause of the Benghazi attack. An adminstration who didn't get around to investigating Benghazi for weeks due to delays with "passports". It's a circus folks and the only reason president Obama continues to decieve is that the media protects him and a significant segment of society either doesn't care or doesn't want to know. As a democrat friend of mine said to me recently: "The good news is that Obama won the election, the bad news is that Obama is the president".

when did he start having 'confidence in the fbi'?? that's new

Election is over - sorry for your loss! Get over it and let the President do his job. There hasn't been a perfect President - ever! There has never been a perfect candidate. Quit hating and being so negative and hope that the President handles the next 4 years well.

wow and I thought 99% sounded a bit unbelievable, 108%, lol