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To: steve harris who wrote (790177)6/16/2014 10:31:58 AM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1577178
 
U.S. quietly releases 12 jihadis from U.S. military prison in Afghanistan



To: steve harris who wrote (790177)6/16/2014 11:14:14 AM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1577178
 
Everything is optics and cover-up to the most corrupt of American regimes
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Coach is Right ^ | 6/15/14 | Suzanne Eovaldi


”So we could’ve gone down there and gotten them easily,” retired USAF Major Eric Stahl told FoxNews.com this week.

(1) A one and one half hour prep time and a 3 hour and 15 minute flight into the Benghazi hot zone were their real time statistics. Already on stand-by alert for high priority missions at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, THEY WERE NEVER CALLED by the White House! That fact stands out in the Bret Baier interview which the outstanding US airman gave on live air. Just imagine that stunning revelation given by Maj. Stahl who also said he was NEVER INTERVIEWED by the Obama administrations’ Accountability Review Board.

Other details of the ineptness and incompetence of the Obama White House are emerging and include not allowing the FBI to interview CIA security officers when the Stahl C-17 touched down at Ramstein. Philip D. Murphy, senior State Department diplomat to Germany, whisked the Benghazi survivors away to do the de-brief. So was this mess more than mere incompetence? Did Murphy just have to be the first one to handle the survivors in order to reconstruct this horrible tragedy into the pitiful and insulting story line of an anti-Islamic video protest?

Major Stahl’s crew was under such urgent danger as they loaded the corpses of US Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALS Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods onto the military aircraft that they weren’t allowed time to perform ceremonial closures over these brave dead Americans! Now, Major Stahl went on to describe the American Air Force’s tradition of performance in the face of unbelievable odds. The utter chaos at the scene only was exacerbated by the fact that a private plane was brought in to remove other severely injured Benghazi survivors. Because this plane’s door was TOO SMALL to allow the boards holding the strapped down and bleeding wounded men through face up, they had to be TURNED SIDEWAYS to get inside the plane! “A tourniquet came off; blood was all over, the flight attendant was losing it,” Major Stahl told Fox News Anchor Bret Baier.

And somehow, a round went off in the back of this private plane as all of this was going on. The attendant frantically called the pilot who rushed back for a look see, then ran back up the aisle and into the cockpit, getting airborne posthaste! So here we have the competence and training of outstanding American Air Force pilots whose skills are the best in the world compared with those a private plane and crew that someone, somewhere called into Benghazi. That action alone should indicate to anyone with one half a brain how strongly the White House felt about really saving Americans. Was the private plane really ordered first, even before the C-17, in hopes of keeping quiet what really went on? When things got out of hand, was it only then that the military was called in ?

That CIA spy operatives were able to listen in on terrorists communicating with their leaders on STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUED CELL PHONES is proof enough that Benghazi was yet another handled-for-TV American tragedy. For this administration is concerned about political appearance above all else. And when you take apart Major Stahl’s actual dramatic dialogue, you begin to realize the true nature of the unfolding disaster.

By not calling to duty air force pilots and their large planes, did the White House really think they could tiptoe around this one? After all, Hillary Clinton said that Stevens wanted to go there, to Benghazi that is. So “What difference does it make” that he and three other brave Americans died!

As deaths of Americans continue to pile up, from Brian Terry, to the other Fast and Furious dead, to our veterans who died waiting for VA help, now to Benghazi’s brutality, we wonder why. From the brave soldiers who died looking for Bowe Bergdahl to the many more American soldiers, citizens, private contractors all over the world now in danger because the worst of the worst Gitmo terrorists were set free, we wonder why. Why is nothing being done to honor the “We Leave No One Behind” mantra which should apply to the soldier in the Mexican jail, two Jewish prisoners in captivity somewhere in the Middle East, to the Canadian-American couple pleading for their release, we wonder.

SOURCE: (1) and all references herein are from the outstanding interview given by recently retired USAF Major Eric Stahl to FoxNews’s Special Report Anchor Bret Baier on June 11,, 2014.

foxnews.com