The Blaze, Madeleine
Morgenstern, February 10, 2014
A House committee formally concluded for the first time that
there was no military “stand down” order given on the night of the deadly
terror attacks in Benghazi ,
Libya
It’s a finding that one committee aide acknowledged to
TheBlaze, “some people are going to be upset about.” The allegation that the
military was told to stand down on aiding the Americans in Benghazi has long
been used to accuse the Obama administration of not doing enough to save the
lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and others during the Sept. 11, 2012
attacks.
The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee, however,
concluded in its new report that no such order was given; rather, Army Lt. Col.
S.E. Gibson, then-head of the site security team at the U.S. Embassy in
Tripoli, was ordered by higher commanders to remain in Tripoli, lest another
attack take place there as part of a larger coordinated assault.
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