BRET BAIER: Charles, in this testimony that we've already seen some of this interview with Greg Hicks, the number two guy, again, on the ground, he specifically says that special forces in Tripoli were told to stand down and not get on a C-130 that was going to go from Tripoli to Benghazi. That would have been there in time for the second attack, the second wave. They were told to not get on that plane.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: And he has also said that when he saw what Susan Rice said on television that his jaw dropped, that it was sort of -- it contradicted the first law of diplomacy: Do not contradict and embarrass a friendly foreign leader. Her statement came minutes after the president of Libya had declared that it obviously was a terror attack. It embarrassed him. Hicks was the acting ambassador, of course, at the time after the death of Ambassador Stevens.
He said as a result of embarrassing, humiliating the government, that is probably why there was no cooperation afterwards in the FBI investigation. But he also says, or at least his lawyer now says, that after his reaction he has been threatened with intimidation, threatened with reprisals. As has Mark Thompson, the other official, the former marine. And that is by definition a coverup. (Special Report, May 6, 2013)
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