DeClassified-Dozens of Vessels Surrounded Benghazi When Clinton Ordered Stand-Down
by Guerilla Girl Ashley The Pete Santilli Show & The Guerilla Media Network
We have heard over and over from The Obama administration during Congressional hearings that there wasn’t enough time to respond with our military to try and help save American lives that were involved in a firefight during the Benghazi terrorist attack on Sept 11, 2011. Well, it turns out that wasn’t true. Judicial watch has just released in in a new report that they have obtained an unclassified navy map of all the naval ships positioned in the area around North Africa, and Guess what, this new map contradicts the Obama administrations claims of saying they didn’t have military assets in the area that would make it in time to help our ambassador Christopher Stevens and his staff fight off a terrorist attack.
Dozens of vessels were stationed in the region on that day, including two aircraft carriers (Dwight D. Eisenhower and Enterprise), four amphibious ships, 13 destroyers, three cruisers and more than a dozen other smaller Navy boats as well as a command ship. Carriers are warships, the powerhouse of the naval fleet with a full-length flight deck for aircraft operations. During the Benghazi attack, two carriers were based to the east in the Arabian Sea, the Navy map shows.
Two amphibious assault ships (Iwo Jima and Gunston Hill) were situated to the east in the Gulf of Oman and one (New York) was in the Gulf of Aden, the map shows. A fourth (Fort McHenry) was located on the west side of the African continent in the Atlantic Ocean. Amphibious ships resemble small aircraft carriers and have air-craft strips for vertical and short take-offs and landings. The destroyers are scattered throughout the region, but the closest appear to be four (Cole, Forrest Sherman, Jason Dunham and Aboon) in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya. The rest of the fleet includes cruisers, minesweepers, patrols and a command ship.
The map was provided to Judicial Watch by retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Randall R. Schmidt, who is investigating how the military responded to the Benghazi attack. Schmidt flew jet fighters during his active duty and says there’s no reason the military could not have efficiently responded in Benghazi. Schmidt got the map after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Navy asking it to identify the location of all its assets in the region on September 11, 2012
