Page 6 - General Hamm News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Intelligence. >> did you receive that information. >> i did. >> didn't bother you. >> and in place ready to respond? >> we never received the request to do so, number one, and number two-- >> you never heard of ambassador stevens repeated warnings about the-- >> i had through general hamm, but we never received a request for support from the state department which would have allowed us to put-- >> so it's the state department's fault. >> i'm not blaming the state department. >> is there a saying in the military when you go into harm's way, we've got your back? >> of course, yes, sir. >> don't ...

Intelligence. >> did you receive that information. >> i did. >> didn't bother you. >> and in place ready to respond? >> we never received the request to do so, number one, and number two-- >> you never heard of ambassador stevens repeated warnings about the-- >> i had through general hamm, but we never received a request for support from the state department which would have allowed us to put-- >> so it's the state department's fault. >> i'm not blaming the state department. >> is there a saying in the military when you go into harm's way, we've got your back? >> of course, yes, sir. >> don't ...

General hamm, i directed several specific actions. first, we ordered a marine fleet antiterrorism secure team, a fast team stationed in spain to prepare to deploy to benghazi. a second fast platoon was ordered to prepare to deploy to the embassy in tripoli. a special operations force, which was training in central europe was ordered to prepare to deploy to an intermediate staging base in southern europe. and a special operations force based in the united states was ordered to deploy to an intermediate staging base in southern europe as well at siganela. some have asked why some other types of ...

So a lot of questions for the military response, rick. rick: a lot of people have been asking about how much the pentagon knew, if anything about the cia's presence in benghazi and whether or not that may have played a role in the delay of any kind of a military response. is that likely to come up? >> reporter: i think it's very interesting in the statement department's arb report, the after action review, general carter hamm said that he wasn't aware that there was such a large group of americans operating out of benghazi. he is the head of africom, why did he not know that the cia had such a...

Didn't know about this for 50 minutes. reports have shown that the commander, general hamm, was at the pentagon that day, ordered an aerial drone -- unarmed, maybe they didn't have armed assets available -- but he's looking at any number of things. commanders, critical information requirements, friendly forces, priority intelligence requirements, different triggers in a command center that say, okay, now it's time the tell the commander something more about this. who in his case would be the chairman of the joint chiefs or the secretary of defense. i've got to believe an ambassador under siege...