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RUSH: I got a note from a friend of mine. <\/p>\n

Dear Rush, <\/emphasize><\/line>Obama says that he sent Susan Rice to the Sunday shows with the video story. He said that in his press conference yesterday. <\/a> He\u2019s the one that sent Susan Rice up there, all those five Sunday morning shows, to explain that it was the video that led to all the military incursions in Benghazi. <\/emphasize><\/line><\/p>\n

Rush, why would he do that when he says he still hasn\u2019t completed the investigation as to what happened? And why did he have Candy Crowley read the transcript about Obama calling it a terrorist event at the debate if he was telling Susan Rice something different?<\/emphasize><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good question, because you remember when Candy Crowley teamed up with Obama <\/a>in the second debate and allowed this misconception to be believed? Obama had called it a terror attack the day after Benghazi. It was five days later Susan Rice is up there saying it wasn\u2019t a terror attack; it was a video. So my friend here wants to know, why was Obama telling two different stories? <\/p>\n

He says, “We know why and the media knows why, so let the testimony under oath begin.”<\/emphasize><\/p>\n

The reason I\u2019m reading this note to you here is don\u2019t get your hopes up for testimony under oath here. I know that Senators McCain and Grahamnesty are hell-bent on having a select committee, but I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a whole lot of energy for that anywhere else. And, by the way, the Drive-Bys have totally turned on Grahamnesty and McCain now, and they are angry white guys<\/a>. The two leading Republican advocates for immigration reform are now angry white guys. <\/p>\n

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F. Chuck Todd is livid that Lindsey Graham and McCain hijacked Obama\u2019s press conference yesterday. Obama was gonna go out there and he was gonna talk about his plans for bipartisanship and he was gonna go out there and talk about his plans for bridging the divide and working with the Republicans and getting things done, and then these two yokels had to go out and call a press conference before our beloved president\u2019s press conference, and they totally turned him into an angry guy, and it\u2019s their fault. It\u2019s their fault, and that\u2019s why Obama got mad, and F. Chuck at NBC is very, very upset.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know outside of Grahamnesty and McCain, I don\u2019t see any energy for a select committee. <\/p>\n

I must tell you, I got a note last night from the head honcho for a member of Congress. Chief of staff member of Congress, apparently the leadership of the House has told the — folks, now, don\u2019t throw anything at me. According to the note that I got from chief of staff to a member of House last night, the leadership of the House has said to the Republican caucus, “We\u2019re just gonna let Obama take the reins. We\u2019re just going to let Obama lead for a while and see where it ends up before we decide what we need to do.” If that\u2019s accurate, I can tell you the House doesn\u2019t sound like they want to play ball on a select committee on Benghazi. I don\u2019t know about Senator McConnell who runs the Republicans in the Senate. I don\u2019t know where he is on that idea. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s pro or con. But for all of you who think — for example, folks, get ready here, get ready. <\/p>\n

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Eli Lake, he has been doing great work, Daily Beast, uncovering what went on in Benghazi and who was saying what. For those of you who think there\u2019s gonna be bombshells with Petraeus testifying and all this, for all of you saying, “Let the testimony under oath begin,” I want you to remember, for a while here it is gonna be the following is operative: No dispute will be resolved in anything other than the Democrats\u2019 favor. It\u2019s just where we are. It\u2019s where we\u2019ve been for I don\u2019t know how long. It\u2019s certainly what happens now. <\/p>\n

Eli Lake says that the CIA\u2019s acting director, Michael Morell, will testify today before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and he\u2019s going to say that the CIA never requested any help during Benghazi. He\u2019s going to say that the CIA never requested Europe-based special operation teams, specialized Marine platoons, or armed drones on the night of September 11th in Benghazi. He\u2019s gonna say not only did we not tell anybody to “stand down,” we didn\u2019t ask for any help. I know you\u2019re thinking, wait a minute, we heard just the opposite. You did. We\u2019ll get there in just a second. I\u2019m not through with the details here. <\/p>\n

“According to a Pentagon timeline made public last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta prepared multiple military responses from the region at around midnight Benghazi time, more than two hours after the initial assault began.” Prepared multiple military responses to choose from. “Those orders included mobilizing two special Marine platoons known as Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) from Rota, Spain, to deploy to Tripoli and Benghazi. Panetta also ordered a special operations force, training in central Europe, to deploy at the Sigonella Airbase in Italy. Another special operations team based in the United States also prepared to deploy to Libya. The CIA, however, requested none of that assistance.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what\u2019s gonna be testified to today. “Oh, yeah. We had all kinds of assets ready to go. We didn\u2019t ask for anything.” Now, here\u2019s what you\u2019re remembering that seems at variance with that. This is a Jennifer Griffin story from Fox News, and it\u2019s October 26th. Let me read to you from Jennifer Griffin\u2019s report. “Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the US consulate and subsequent attack several hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA chain of command — who also told the CIA operators twice to ‘stand down.'”<\/p>\n

So your memory is right. You heard it on Fox and you heard it here on October 26th that there were three urgent requests, Fox News has learned from sources on the ground in Benghazi, there were three urgent requests from the CIA annex — this is not the consulate, but it\u2019s just down road, maybe a mile away — from the CIA annex, they wanted military backup. Three urgent requests during the attack on the consulate. And they were denied by officials in the CIA chain of command who also told the CIA operators to “stand down” rather than help. You heard all that, you heard right, your memory is right. There were requests for assistance. Fox reported this on October 26th citing sources there. The requests were not only denied, everybody was told to “stand down,” and that\u2019s when Tyrone and the boys went over anyway and violated orders to assist. <\/line><\/p>\n

Your memory is right. You remember what you heard. You remember what\u2019s been reported. “Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile away. … When he and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing.” They were told to “stand down.” Woods, Doherty, at least two others, ignored those orders, made their way to the consulate anyway. They requested help three times. They were ordered to “stand down,” CIA acting director testimony today, “We didn\u2019t ask for help during Benghazi.” <\/p>\n