The Dictionary describes treason is the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.
With information coming out daily from whistleblowers, it is becoming apparent that information early on, was sent to the situation room in the White House. It is very possible that people in the situation room were watching the attack in Benghazi in real time.
Whether or not the President was there his National Security Council members certainly were. If the President was not present he would be contacted.
There is only one person who could refuse to help or to give an order to stand down and that is the president himself.
The order not to help and the order to stand down is a betrayal of trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.
Anyone else besides the President, like the Secretary of State, secretary of defense or any member of the National Security Council who were in that room would be guilty of the same crime. All of them would have violated their oath of office and fidelity to the U.S. Constitution.
Leon Panetta's statement was that: " - we had forces in play to do that but there is a basic principle here, the basic principle here is , you don't employee forces into harms way without knowing what's going on, without having real-time information about what's taking place."
Well that's a crock. What did Panetta need to know? How many guns they had, what was the caliber of those guns, how many men were attacking and where exactly are they?
Good God , they knew our consulate was under attack, and they did nothing except to stop who wanted to help by telling them to stand down. As far as I am concerned anyone who gave those orders or anyone who was present when those orders were given are traitors.
Now this so called transparent administration will drag its feet on the answers to this tragedy until after the election.
Any voter who believes this to be true and still votes for Obama or any legislator who supports Obama is an accessory to the crime.