Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Quote of the Day - General Thomas G. McInerney

"For us to deny forces to go to the aid or our people - we never leave people behind. And that's where the dereliction of duty comes in and it permeates the whole command and control system. To say we couldn't get the airplanes down there, we couldn't get approval for air space....that doesn't matter, Lou...you take action and you move out. I'm actually ashamed of the way our military responded -  not the men and women, but our senior leaders - and it's disgraceful."

~ Thomas G. McInerney

In answer to Lou Dobbs question about the team of forces who were prepared to fly out of Tripoli to Benghazi. Gen McInerney said that the only person who can say "Stand down" is the President of the United States.

He retired from military service as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Director of the Defense Performance Review, reporting to the secretary of defense. He led the Pentagon's Reinventing Government effort, visiting more than 100 leading-edge commercial companies to assimilate their ideas about business re-engineering, per Fox News' biography

The Benghazi hearing with the committee on Oversight and Reform begins at 11:30am today.

WITNESSES:

Mr. Mark Thompson
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism
US Department of State

Mr. Gregory Hicks
Foreign Service Officer and former Deputy Chief of Mission/Chargé d’Affairs in Libya
US Department of State

Mr. Eric Nordstrom
Diplomatic Security Officer and former Regional Security Officer in Libya
US Department of State

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