The Blaze:
On Tuesday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s issued some
damning remarks in which he claimed that two news outlets might have emails proving the Obama White House was in fact the one that gave the “stand down” orders and chose not intervene when asked for help during the Benghazi siege. Now, the White House is firing back.
Gingrich told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren on Tuesday that he’d been told by a “fairly reliable” U.S. senator that no less than news outlets have emails “from the national security adviser’s office telling a counterterrorism group to stand down.”
“If that’s true, and I’ve been told this by a fairly reliable U.S. senator, if that’s true and that comes out in the next day or two, I think it raises enormous questions about the president’s role, Tom Donilon, the National Security Adviser’s role, the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has taken it on his own shoulders, that
he said don’t go. And I think that’s very dubious, given that the president said he had instructions they are supposed to do
everything they could to secure American personnel.”