UPDATE: Attkisson just tweeted that you can read the full article here.
This just in from CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson on twitter:
CBS: U.S. diplomat says US Special Forces were stopped from going to Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012 prior to mortar attack.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
CBS: U.S. Ambassador Stevens’ Deputy, Greg Hicks, has told Congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from..
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
..Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by SOCAFRICA [U.S. Special Operations Command S. Africa]
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
CBS: The account from Hicks is in stark contrast to assertions from the Obama Administration…
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
…which insisted that nobody was ever told to stand down and that all available resources were utilized.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
CBS: Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA cmder Lt. Col. Gibson & his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi..
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
…prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound “when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, ‘you can’t go now…
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
…you don’t have the authority to go now.’ And so they missed the flight… They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it.”
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
The Obama Administration has said everything was done that could have been done to help the Americans under attack in Benghazi.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
The independent State Dept. Accountability Review Board indicated that the Administration did everything possible.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
No assistance arrived from the U.S. military outside of Libya during the hours that Americans were under attack or trapped inside compounds-
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
-by hostile forces armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and AK-47 rifles.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
CBS: Hicks also told l investigators that if the U.S. had quickly sent a military aircraft over Benghazi, it might have saved American lives
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
The U.S. Souda Bay Naval Base is an hour’s flight from Libya.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
The Defense Dept has said there were no planes available at Souda Bay to assist those at Benghazi.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
Hicks:“I believe if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or 2 over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced,
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
… I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split.–Hicks
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
…”They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them,” Hicks testified.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013
Two Americans died in the early morning mortar attack.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 6, 2013