Arutz Sheva,
Israel National News
Writer allegedly involved with ex-CIA chief said he knew
"within 24 hours" of CIA annex's request for reinforcements.
Military expert Paula Broadwell, who was allegedly
improperly involved with resigned CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, confirmed
in October that the CIA annex in Benghazi asked for reinforcements when the
consulate came under attack on September 11. She also acknowledged that
"there was a failure in the system."
Broadwell was speaking at her alma mater, the University
of Denver, on October 26. Her lecture, which is on YouTube under the title
"Alumni Symposium 2012 Paula Broadwell," now has added value, because
based on the recent disclosures, it can now be assumed that she indeed knew
exactly what it was that Petraeus knew about the attack.
Broadwell confirmed the reports on Fox News that
the CIA annex asked for a special unit, the Commander in Chief's In Extremis
Force, to come and assist it. She also said that the force could indeed have
reinforced the consulate, and that Petraeus knew all of this, but was not
allowed to talk to the press because of his position in the CIA.
"The challenge has been the fog of war, and the
greater challenge is that it's political hunting season, and so this whole
thing has been turned into a very political sort of arena, if you will,"
she said. "The fact that came out today is that the ground forces there at
the CIA annex, which is different from the consulate, were requesting
reinforcements.
"They were requesting the – it's called the C-in-C's
In Extremis Force – a group of Delta Force operators, our very, most talented
guys we have in the military. They could have come and reinforced the consulate
and the CIA annex. Now, I don't know if a lot of you have heard this but the CIA
annex had actually taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner, and they
think that the attack on the consulate was an attempt to get these prisoners
back. It's still being vetted.
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