During the presidential primary campaign of 2008, a central debate issue was who was more qualified to answer that 3am phone call as president. Barack or Hillary? Based on Senate testimony given by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta about the Benghazi attacks on 9/11, neither Barack nor Hillary is qualified.
These are really fascinating admissions. In the first video, Panetta tells Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) that neither he nor Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff never communicated with the President once it became known that Ambassador Stevens had been killed. Former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed several hours later.
Here is Republican Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) asking both Panetta and Dempsey about what they discussed with Hillary Clinton between the first attack on the consulate that killed Stevens and the later attack on the CIA Annex that killed Woods and Doherty.
Their responses? Uh, we didn’t talk with Clinton at all.
If Panetta and Dempsey were telling the truth, it’s a shocking reality. If they were untruthful, what really happened must be far worse.
h/t Weekly Standard