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CIA agent request for help denied during Benghazi attack
FoxNews Exclusive - Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA chain of command -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When he and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to "stand down," according to sources familiar with the exchange. Soon after, they were again told to "stand down."
Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the consulate which at that point was on fire. Shots were exchanged. The rescue team from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.
At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours -- enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators. Read more
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Legislature looks into MVD problems
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Work deaths in NM on the rise
The state Environmental Department says workplace deaths
in
The department says it logged a total of 51 deaths
last year from 38 in 2010. The biggest increase was tallied among
transportation workers, where 21 people were killed last year. That compares to
just 12 transportation workers killed on the job in 2010.
A statement from
deputy environmental department secretary Butch Tongate called the statistics a
sobering reminder that workplace safety can't be taken for granted. He says the
department works to help employees and workers identify and eliminate hazards
that lead to fatalities but it is ultimately up to employers to promote a
culture of safety.
LANL $213 million project fails
After more than seven years’ work and
$213 million, the new security system at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s most
important nuclear weapons manufacturing site doesn’t work.
A lab spokesman
acknowledged the project suffered from construction problems, and an internal
government memo suggests longstanding concerns by the federal government about
the way Los Alamos has managed the project.
The
project, intended to provide tighter security at the lab’s Technical Area 55,
where plutonium research is done and nuclear bomb parts are made, was scheduled
to be finished early next year. Instead, it will be delayed indefinitely.
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Bingaman and Udall urge President to create National Monuments in NM
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New Mexico Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall are asking
President Obama to designate the Rio Grande Gorge near
The senators, who are sponsors of legislation that would
elevate the sites to national conservation and wilderness areas, wrote a letter
to Obama asking him to use his authority to establish the sites as National
Monuments because a congressional logjam has made it difficult to pass their
bill.
They say National Monument status would protect the lands and their
wildlife habitat while preserving existing uses such as hunting, fishing, and
grazing.
Governor appoints Pat Woods to vacant Senate seat
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| Pat Woods |
Woods is to
be sworn into office Friday in Clovis
Woods is unopposed
in the general election for the Senate seat and defeated a candidate backed by Martinez
Harden has served in the Senate since 2002, and supported
Woods in the primary election. The boards of county commissioners of each
county in the district recommended Woods for appointment by the governor.
Midnight fire grows to over 400 acres
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The Midnight Fire burning in the
The fire is 0 percent contained. No
homes are threatened at this time, and no roads are closed because of the fire.
The McCrystal and Cimarron campgrounds in the
Valle Vidal remain voluntarily evacuated as a precautionary measure.
Fire crews said the fire didn't spread much on Wednesday, but they were unable to fight it because it's burning in rugged terrain where there are high winds.
Fire crews said the fire didn't spread much on Wednesday, but they were unable to fight it because it's burning in rugged terrain where there are high winds.
Officials
hope the upcoming cold weather and chance of rain will help them curb the fire
over the next few days.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Senator Mary Jane Garcia pays fines
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| Mary Jane Garcia |
Garcia also says she had requested the
Attorney General's Office to review the case. She says the money can be
returned to her later if the Secretary of State decides to waive the fine, but
that she would reimburse her campaign fund regardless.
Ken Ortiz, chief of
staff for the Secretary of State's Office, said Thursday that they were not
aware of Garcia's decision. The last correspondence they received from Garcia
was on Tuesday, when she cited statute defending her expenditures and asked
that the fine be waived.
The Secretary of State's Office sent a letter to
Garcia on Oct. 17, alleging 12 possible violations of state campaign financing
laws.
Albuquerque to spend $350K on escalators
City officials had to shut down the escalators in May after discovering the cracks. They quickly found out replacing these 20 plus year-old, people-movers is going to be very expensive. “You can't buy escalators off the shelf because every depth is different every width is different, they have to be designed,” said Riordan. It's going to cost $350 thousand to replace them. City officials thought about making the whole thing stairs but by the time you rip out the escalators and fill this up with concrete the cost is about the same. “We want to make sure we do what is best for the taxpayer dollar,” said Riordan. Read more
Wandering bear captured on Santa Fe's southwest side
Patrol officers spotted the bear at about 1 a.m. and tried to pursue her through the wee hours of the morning, Capt. Aric Wheeler said. She evaded them until later in the morning when she awoke directly across the street from police headquarters at the Park and Ride stop off Camino Entrada.
A green tag could be seen on one of the animal’s ears while it remained perched among the tree branches. Rael said the bear must have been tagged on another trip into the city, and he wondered if it would be set free again following its capture. Ben Otero of the Española district office of Game and Fish later said the estimated 225-pound bear would be released again into the wild. “We have a three strikes policy when it comes to bears entering the city,” he explained said.
About 20 feet up, she became visibly affected by the 1,000 milligrams of tranquilizing serum in her system, no longer gazing at her gawkers but now confusedly gazing toward the rising sun. A back foot slipped and she spun around a branch, still holding on with her front paws.
Down below, Animal Control officers shifted a three-foot-deep air mattress to where they thought the bear would fall. The bear fell, without hitting any other branches on the way down, to the pillowy landing pad.
The bear was tagged a second time and loaded into its cage. Otero said the bear would be injected with some antibiotics then released into the Jemez Mountains. Read more
Swickard: Burnt up about the ethanol requirements
Commentary by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - Ethanol requirements in gasoline are almost a complete disaster. Not quite, but close. Let us count the ways ethanol is good: there is only one. If no conventional fuel is available during a crisis, such as a war in the Middle East, we are glad to have ethanol. Is there anything else good about ethanol? No, the harm is profound.The harm of ethanol is not just to our pocketbooks and our vehicles, the use of food to make fuel when our nation has abundant energy resources causes food prices to increase. This is not just corn products. Wheat and rice products increase as consumers react to corn prices so that all three food prices increase. And, since beef, chicken and pork use these same grains, the price of meat increases dramatically.
In our country this is hard for people who live on subsistence calories. But the real damage of ethanol is that it injures fragile populations throughout the world. This has been seen with the price of corn tortillas in Mexico and food in the Middle East. Each place where food increases in price causes fragile citizens to be devastated by the pressure put on their basic subsistence.
The rise of food prices destabilizes some parts of the world, again, for no real good reason. Yes, there are those people who wave the “Global Warming” banner but day by day it is increasingly obvious to everyone that Global Warming is a political hoax.
In my town there was one vendor who sold gasoline without ethanol but alas, he was forced to only sell ethanol “enhanced” gasoline this last week. He sent me this message by email: “…I have spent my entire thirty two year career in the convenience store business being a leader and not follower. Words cannot explain my frustration and anger concerning being forced back into selling an ethanol blend fuel… I have a great collection of vintage vehicles and know the destruction that is being done by ethanol on my rubber gaskets and engine.”
The problem is Washington D. C. requiring a political solution to a non-political problem. People need energy but using the political solution of ethanol is tragic. This next year let us wrestle the government on the ethanol requirement. It may take all of us to do it. Read full column
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