Source: Only President could have made 'stand down' call on Benghazi

Uh oh. The day before witnesses with firsthand information about the Benghazi attack appear before the House Oversight Committee, the Top Obfuscater is implemented in a more participatory role...

Breitbart:A source with intimate information about the events that happened on the ground in Benghazi the night the U.S. Consulate and the CIA annex was attacked by terrorists told Breitbart News that, ultimately, only the President of the United States, or someone acting on his authority, could have prevented Special Forces either on the ground or nearby from helping those Americans who were under deadly assault.

According to the source, when the attack on the Consulate occurred, a specific chain of command to gain verbal permission to move special-forces in must have occurred. SOCAFRICA commander Lieutenant Col. Gibson would have contacted a desk officer at the time, asking for that permission.

That desk officer would have called Marine Corps Col. George Bristol, then in command of Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara. From there, Bristol would have made contact with Rear Admiral Brian Losey, then Commander of Special Operations Command Africa. Losey would have contacted four-star General Carter Ham, commander of U.S. AFRICOM at the time.

“Ham answers directly to the President of the United States,” said the source. It wasn’t a low-level bureaucrat making the call, the source adamantly added.

That call may have been made early in the engagement. Both Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey testified in January that they had no further communication with President Barack Obama after an initial briefing in the early hours of the Benghazi crisis, which continued through the night.

Sure, it could have been someone acting on his authority, because not only does this guy keep his fingerprints off his own policies at all times, but we know he was fundraising, then went to bed, returning to the campaign trail the very next day. Of course, he could have said 'stand down, no additional assets deployed' before going to bed, I suppose. The Leader of the Free World. What a president...