THREAD 1. What happened in Niger.— Laura Sessions (@laurasessions10) October 19, 2017
- 2/ While everyone is so busy talking about the president's handling of his call to the widow of the soldier killed in Niger....
- http://3.you 're all missing the important part of that story...the part about what happened that night in Niger.
- 4. The story that is emerging is so much worse than anything that happened in Benghazi
- 5. but the same GOP Congress that investigated Benghazi with a fury seems to have little or no interest in this story. .
- 6. Here's what we know so far... .These soldiers went to a meeting in an area near the border with Mali a well known hot spot for ISIS .
- 7 Our soldiers were not backed up by US Military air support- backed up by the French, who were not authorized to intervene or even fire .
- 8 Our soldiers did not have armored vehicles. They traveled in pickup trucks. . Our soldiers were given faulty intel... that said
- 9 "it was unlikely that they would meet any hostile forces." Of course, they walked into an ISIS ambush-chaotic and they took three lives .
- 10 It took the French 30 minutes to arrive. When they did they were not authorized to help.
- 11. So, a dozen of our Green Berets fought a battle with more than 50 Isis fighters, without help, for 30 minutes. .
- 12 Finally, a rescue helicopter arrived, but it was not a US military helicopter.
- 14 So, these contractors landed and loaded the remaining troops, the injured and the dead. . Here's where this gets really bad... .
- 15 Because they were not military, they never did a head count. That is how Sgt. La David Johnson was left behind.
- 17According to the Pentagon, his locator beacon was activated on battlefield, which indicates that he was alive when they left him there
- 18 They recovered his body 48 hours later but are refusing to say where.
- 19 According to his widow, she could not have an open casket. This means that he was mutilated after being left behind on the battlefield.
- 20 This is what led to the nonsense we're obsessing over. This is the real story.
- 21 As usual, you're allowing it to be about Trump's distraction, but this is Benghazi on steroids. .
- 22 The Trump Pentagon gave these men bad intel, no support, outsourced rescue people and then,,,
- 22 tried for more than a week to pretend it never happened. In that time, Trump spoke on many occasions and never mentioned it.
- 24 He tweeted attacks on many but never mentioned this Only after pressure from the media did he acknowledge these men and their service..
