Panetta said, though he did meet with Obama at a 5 o'clock prescheduled gathering, the president left operational details, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the Americans under siege, "up to us."

In fact, Panetta says that the night of 9/11, he did not communicate with a single person at the White House. The attack resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Obama did not call or communicate in anyway with the defense secretary that night. There were no calls about what was going on in Benghazi. He never called to check-in.

The 5 o'clock meeting was a pre-scheduled 30-minute session, where, according to Panetta's recollection, they spent about 20 minutes talking a lot about the American embassy that was surrounded in Egypt and the situation that was just unfolding in Benghazi.

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In response to NO MO O's comment:

He said nothing of the sort.  He noted that operational details regarding the response were given to him and his staff and they conducted the response to the best of their abilities.  The president isn't suited for that sort of task so what value does he bring to the table aside from asking for constant updates, which he could recieve from other members of the staff dealing directly with coordinating the response. 

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Bbb bbbb  bbbuuuuutyt ....

I WANTED TO SAY I HATE OBAMA!

Also, to make decisions like whether or not to violate another countries airspace in order to rescue Americans under siege. That has to come from the President. But you knew that.

This dead horse is certainly taking a beating.

Perfect, put your fingers in your ears and say "na, na, na, na, na" over and over again until it goes away.

Now we know why there are no pictures of Obama in the situation room the night of 9/11/12 looking presidential.

In response to StalkingButler's comment:

It's just not as important as you think it is.

Way to pretend you actually care about the lives lost, though.  Someone might believe you....

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In response to MattyScornD's comment:

Look I know you want everyone to cater tO, protect and insulate Obama from his mistakes like you do but, my loyalty is not to a man but, to the USA.

In response to tvoter's comment:

The situation was very unfortunate...a tragedy even.  The world is a dangerous place where sometimes Americans get killed.

But the political scandal pushed by you and others is misplaced, outsized and disrespectful to the memories of the fallen.

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Angry wingnuts. Not invited to the party. Waaaaaaa

in his defense, didn't he have an important meeting with Jayz to go to?

In response to MattyScornD's comment:

No, you really don't know what really happened. None of us do. There was an intentional decision to engage in a cover-up and we can only speculate on the reasons for that. The implications of this are potentially enormous.

In response to bald-predictions' comment:

I can accept all the reasons for this not going well and a cluster F.  But I find this story to be the most disturbing.

In response to StalkingButler's comment:

This was not the first nor last snafu in the war on terror arena, and this is not even close to the hysterical superlatives bandied about in the right-wing, obama-hating echo chamber.

And unfortunately, you and others have debased it to just another political witch hunt, and that's just pitiful.

A little perspective is in order.

In response to MattyScornD's comment:

This is not Bush and you cant just say "reps did worse" to excuse every thing bad this administration does!

You are a coward in you inability to be critical of your party!!

Can you blow any harder?

Honestly....these conservatives... 

In response to WhatDoYouWantNow's comment:

Yea no reason for the CIC to care when our people are being attacked and killed for 12 hours!!

You act like a fool who puts party over whats right and wrong for the country!!