CBS News is reporting that a drone filmed a good portion of the Benghazi Consulate Attack

[boston bean]

Does anyone have any other info?

CBS News has been told that, hours after the attack began, an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft apparently observed the final hours of the protracted battle.


The State Department, White House and Pentagon declined to say what military options were available. A White House official told CBS News that, at the start of the attack, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "looked at available options, and the ones we exercised had our military forces arrive in less than 24 hours, well ahead of timelines laid out in established policies."


But it was too late to help the Americans in Benghazi. The ambassador and three others were dead.


A White House official told CBS News that a "small group of reinforcements" was sent from Tripoli to Benghazi, but declined to say how many or what time they arrived.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-57536611/could-u.s-military-have-helped-during-libya-attack/

[winstars]

1. Thought I read somewhere last week that the drone was overhead for like the last hour of the attack

but I have no link to that information, but I believe I read it at a credible source...

[doc03]

2. Wouldn't it be cool if Obama took out the perpetrators with a

drone before the election. Of course the Rethugs will say it's political, f--- em.

[winstars]

3. I have thought from the start that the admin seeming flatfooted on this was because they are

about to wack some/all of the scum who killed our guys and just couldn't say a lot. Although I do recognize that it may be some time before that is even remotely possible... getting the murderers that is...

[pointsoflight]

5. If they can identify and locate them, they need to take 'em out no matter when it is.

Most reasonable people will be happy we got 'em, and won't give sh*t how close it is to the election.

[JRLeft]

7. What if it killed innocent people with the attackers?

[winstars]

8. I would hope that we could keep that to a minimum or none Thats why the President gets the big money

Lets hope that if they are identified, we will not make any errors. But make no mistake about it, right now there is a lot of pressure to"kill somebody"... I am quite sure that that pressure is a 1,000,000 time LESS in this administration than in any other recent one including Clinton's. But there has to be somebody in the political operation saying what we are saying: sure would be great for many reasons if we wacked some or all of the scum who killed our men...

[bluestate10]

9. Better to send in Special Forces teams to kill the people that were responsible up close.

We have CIA there and Libyans that would be willing to help. Drone strikes would be counter-productive in this case.

[Gin]

4. Saw ARGO today......makes me wonder who really was behind the Benghazi attack.

Comments before and actions right after, and I mean right after, make me go hmmmmmmmmm.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

6. CBS loves this story

Which is interesting because in the weeks-months-years after 9/11 they were right there with the rest of the MSM feeding the plebes jingoism and later, bloodlust for war with Iraq.

But hey why let fairness in reporting get in the way of a good double standard.