Watching Our People Die...

...And then lying about it.

From CBS News:

CBS News has been told that, hours after the attack began, an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft apparently observed the final hours of the protracted battle.

So, our leadership watched as Islamic terrorists murdered our people in our consulate... and did nothing!  To make matters worse, they continue to lie about it.

[The] 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,” Panetta told Pentagon reporters. “And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.

So says SECDEF Leon Panetta.  But as I stated earlier that is...

BULLS__T!  That's called a "movement to contact".  It's a standard offensive operation.  In fact, in a real movement to contact, you don't even know the enemy's location.  In Banghazi, the enemy's location was obvious!

Apparently, Sec Panetta has never picked up a copy of FM 7-8.  But it's even worse than I thought, because, as Jonah Goldberg asks...

First, Panetta says they didn’t have real-time information. Uh, if having a live video feed and real-time reports from assets on the ground for hours doesn’t count as real-time information, what does?
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If the circumstances in Libya didn’t meet the “enough information” threshold for a rescue attempt or some other form of intervention, then what does?

Good questions.  Too bad the dinosaur media is largely avoiding asking them.  Of the five major Sunday news shows, only one mentioned anything about Benghazi.  Take a wild guess as to which network broke with the flock.

Keep in mind that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, the two former Navy SEALs who heroically fought and died to defend the consulate, killed around 60 terrorists.  If they'd received any air support at all the enemy would've probably scattered.

Back to the CBS article:

Retired CIA officer Gary Berntsen [hey, I know that guy!  I worked with him in Afghanistan! ~ OS] believes help could have come much sooner. He commanded CIA counter-terrorism missions targeting Osama bin Laden and led the team that responded after bombings of the U.S. Embassy in East Africa.

"You find a way to make this happen," Berntsen says. "There isn't a plan for every single engagement. Sometimes you have to be able to make adjustments. They made zero adjustments in this. They stood and they watched and our people died."

Somebody watched for hours as terrorists attacked our people, and made the call to let them succeed and murder Americans.  That "somebody" deserves prison.