phone call was answered, they listened to it and put it back down and that s the problem here. everybody in washington knew what was going on. someone made the decision to not render aid. to me, that s the worst thing here. these guys on the ground were lasering something, they thought somebody was coming and again he, there s some breakdown between washington, the folks in europe and italy, who had to launch the force and the guys on the ground. let s be clear for the audience to understand. we have never in our history as a military had better more precise communications real time, plus the drone feed. that s exactly right. because they were actually talking on the phone to someone or radio. right. steve: somebody at the department of state and the drone an hour later. hillary clinton would like to be the president of the united states in four years and this suddenly is going to be a gigantic speed bump between her and the white house. you say ultimately somebody made the deci
well, it s not clear who they spoke to, whether they spoke to some people in ctc, the counterterrorism center or special activities division. they were calling cia headquarters based on reporting that we ve seen so far and as you ve stated three times they were told to stand down, not do this and thank goodness they did not obey the orders and they went over, they moved from the annex over, relieved and rescued up to 30 people from the consulate, brought them back over to the annex to try to secure them and then of course came under significant attack themselves, sought assistance, requested you know, that forces be sent in, and possibly an ac-130 gun ship, a quick reaction force to help them and they received none of them. the shame in this, there was a tier one team in southern europe that would have been in a position to support serve as qrf and ac-130 gunship would have needed one pass over that embassy or consulate to
he said it was inevitable and we told the captain department of state we need to stay here. we took our specialops guys and took them out of there and replaced them with libya nationals that we paid four dollars an hour. how can you sit back. this administration covers its behind but doesn t cover the diplomats over seas with the secretary they deserve. steve: there is a lot of covering and now they are stone walling and you would like the answers. the speaker wrote a letter to the president of the united states. i heard that apparently the guys down there were calling for a gun ship. we need help now and it never came. can you imagine being there? we had people back washington watching it in real time the way americans watch it nfl in
friendly fire since the war started. good evening, sir. hi, greta. first of all, what happened? saturday morning about midnight, a pakistani outpost saw movement, fired a flare, and opened up with machine gun and mow motar fire. it happened it was a u.s.-afghan patrol. the u.s. side came under fire, called the pakistani clearance channel to make sure there were no pakistanis on that position. the pakistanis said it was clear. one of the things i asked my source is how come so many pakistanis died? the answer is that the firepower force that responded was an ac 130 gun ship, and as you know from your time there, that s the most lethal form of firepower we have. beginning at about 2:00 in the morning to half-hour the gun ship raked those two positions
friendly fire since the war started. good evening, sir. hi, greta. first of all, what happened? saturday morning about midnight, a pakistani outpost saw movement, fired a flare, and opened up with machine gun and mow motar fire. it happened it was a u.s.-afghan patrol. the u.s. side came under fire, called the pakistani clearance channel to make sure there were no pakistanis on that position. the pakistanis said it was clear. one of the things i asked my source is how come so many pakistanis died? the answer is that the firepower force that responded was an ac 130 gun ship, and as you know from your time there, that s the most lethal form of firepower we have. beginning at about 2:00 in the morning to half-hour the gun ship raked those two positions