Explosive: Special Ops Team Ready to Go, Furious at Order to Stand Down

Photo Credit: APThe dramatic and personal stories of State Department staffers — one of whom was in Libya at the time of attacks on the U.S. Consulate — injected real emotion into a very political hearing on Benghazi on Wednesday.

In his first full public accounting, Gregory Hicks, a Foreign Service officer and ex-deputy chief of mission in Libya, recounted in vivid detail what happened the night of the attacks. Republicans insist that the Obama administration and the State Department didn’t do nearly enough to aid U.S. personnel under attack in September 2012.

Sure to be trumpeted by Republicans, Hicks’s most explosive revelation centered on an assertion that a four-man special operations team based in Tripoli was allegedly told not to make the flight to Benghazi on the night of the attacks.

State and Pentagon officials countered that the team wouldn’t have arrived in Benghazi in time and that it was instead needed in Tripoli.

“They were furious,” Hicks said when asked how the special forces troops responded to orders not to leave Tripoli.

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