Former Top Defense Official: "If Your Ambassador Has Been Killed You Don...

jackohoft - Former Assistant Defense Secretary Bing West told FOX News: "For the United States military to say that they were 480 miles away and they couldn't do anything, and they couldn't move one aircraft in 8 hours? I'd say it's time to relieve a lot of people in the chain of command... If your ambassador has been either killed or captured, and is missing at the hands of terrorists, you do not ask any country for "Mother may I?" before you come across the border to save your own.'"

US officials said they needed permission from the Libyan government for overflight.