Despite What Obama Said – The Two Ex-Navy SEALs Were Not Part of Libyan Ambassador’s Security Detail
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7:38 AM
The two ex-Navy SEALs were not part of the Libyan Ambassador’s security detail.
The two heroes, Tyrone Woods, 41, and Glen Doherty, 42, were not employed by the State Department diplomatic security office but took up arms in an attempt to rescue the ambassador during the terrorist attack.
In his Weekly Address last week, Obama claimed the two SEALs were part of the ambassador’s security detail.
“Glen and Tyrone had each served America as Navy SEALs for many years, before continuing their service providing security for our diplomats in Libya. They died as they lived their lives — defending their fellow Americans, and advancing the values that all of us hold dear.
But they were not part of Ambassador Chris Stevens’ official security detail.
The Washington Guardian reported:
The two former Navy SEALs killed in last week’s attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi were not part of Ambassador Chris Stevens’ official security detail but took up arms in an effort to protect the facility when it was overrun by insurgents, U.S. officials tell the Washington Guardian.
The two former SEALS, Tyrone Woods, 41, and Glen Doherty, 42, were not employed by the State Department diplomatic security office and instead were what is known as personal service contractors who had other duties related to security, the officials said.
They stepped into action, however, when Stevens became separated from the small security detail normally assigned to protect him when he traveled from the more fortified embassy in Tripoli to Benghazi, the officials said.
The two ex-Seals and others engaged in a lengthy firefight with the extremists who attacked the compound, a fight that stretched from the inner area of the consulate to an outside annex and a nearby safe house — a location that the insurgents appeared to know about, the officials said.
The officials provided the information to the Washington Guardian, saying they feared the Obama administration’s scant description of the episode left a misimpression that the two ex-Navy SEALs might have been responsible for the ambassador’s personal safety or become separated from him.
“Woods and Doherty weren’t part of the detail, nor were they personally responsible for the ambassador’s security, but they stepped into the breach when the attacks occurred and their actions saved others lives — and they shouldn’t be lumped in with the security detail,” one senior official said, speaking only on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about the State Department.
The administration has not fully described the two former Navy SEALs’ activities, characterizing their work only vaguely as being security related. “Our embassies could not carry on our critical work around the world without the service and sacrifice of brave people like Tyrone and Glen,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after the attacks.
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Ragspierre commented:
Obama will piss on these SEALS, just as he’s done pretty much always.
He gave Hollywood people the NAMES of SEALS and CIA operatives so they’d make his little move for him.
There really appears to be nothing he will not stoop to.
archer52 commented:
Glenn Beck is claiming they were working for the CIA in some kind of an arms deal buy back. They may have been just private contractors doing something the U.S. Government doesn’t want to do. That happens all the time over there.
Either way, it shows just how many lies are inside this event, and how hard the Obama people are working to cover it up until after the election.
Robodog7 commented:
If Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were not part of Ambassador Chris Stevens’ official security detail but took up arms in an effort to protect the facility when it was overrun by insurgents, Then where in the name of God was his security detail??? Did the State Dept. not assign him one? This only raises more questions about Obama’s FAILURE on 9/11.
BarbaraS commented:
Obsama is stringing this situation along waiting to see how it best plays for him. Dribble, dribble, dribble…backtrack, backtrack…dribble, dribble, dribble over and over again. He cannot admit he is ultimately responsible for the whole debacle but he is. As Truman said “the buck stops here”.
JenBee commented:
It is EMBARRASSING that the POTUS either does not know or is outright lying about this issue.
donh commented:
The Seals had their own mission to collect Khaddafi’s hidden stash of WMD….Ambassador Stevens was also CIA trying to negotiate with these people to trade in weapons….They killed him. The mission failed. Khadaffi was at one time running a nuclear program. Some very seriious weapons may now be possessed by these groups.
Leon Panetta is working a disinformation operation …blaming ex Gitmo detainees….keeping the war on the same 20 year old script….that all the terror in the world is being run by this one inbred family of 500 Al Quaida fanatics, The Westboro Baptist Church of Islam ….and that the Muslim faith at large is our PEACEFUL FRIEND.
jorgen commented:
Obama’s first instinct tells him to lie – and the MSM lets him get away with it!
Lars commented:
These two are the members of the true elites we should always look up to. Forget the hahvahd elites who are buffoons who have cheated in every aspect of life but marriage.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
BHO – Putting the POS in POtuS since 2009.
tommy mc donnel commented:
this is what happens when you believe in a political ideology that doesn’t believe in the concept of truth.
mg4us commented:
OBAMA lies – - Americans DIE
Obama Lies – -Democracy dies
The only seal obama cares about is the Seal of POTUS
Granny commented:
#5 September 20, 2012 at 7:52 am
Robodog7 commented:
If Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were not part of Ambassador Chris Stevens’ official security detail but took up arms in an effort to protect the facility when it was overrun by insurgents, Then where in the name of God was his security detail??? Did the State Dept. not assign him one? This only raises more questions about Obama’s FAILURE on 9/11.
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Apparently he had very little in the way of a security detail – reports I’ve read vary between local tribesmen and British contractors – and was not even traveling in a standard armored car.
The more we learn about this (mostly despite Obama) the more this looks undertaken with White House complicity. Not a failure – DELIBERATE.
pink tie Republican commented:
Stevens drank deep from the Obama Kool Aid, and it killed him.
mg4us commented:
Speaking of Lies. . Obama says he supports all americans. . really?????
On page 47 of Dreams from My Father, Obama reminds us the indoctrination lesson his mother gave him when explaining why she did not want to associate with Americans while she was in Indonesia — She said “THESE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE!!”
Wake-up America and fellow Americans. . Obama is not one of us mentally, spiritually or emotionally. .
Mommy dearest filled his head and heart with hate and contempt for us, capitalism and western civilization. . .
Other folks as shown in the movie 2016:Obama’s America only reinforce these beliefs. . .his mother was the originator (most of what we believe is imbedded before we turn eight (8).
And for those black Americans from decent of Slaves, Obama shares NO HISTORY with you. . or your struggles. . .and hard fought gains for equality. . His Kenyan Dad’s family were slave owners in the past.. . the tribal way.
So please do not support Obama simply because of his skin color. . to do so would mock, insult & denigrate all that the Reverend M. L. King worked so hard to change. Instead look at the man’s character and judge him on that! Not to do so would be the worst injustice of all!
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/frank_marshall_davis_jr_comments.html#disqus_thread#ixzz2716DiKrA
guy commented:
The two seals were in Libya to search for shoulder-fired AA missiles that have gone amiss from arms bunkers across Libya.
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