Emails suggest Pentagon had troops ready during Benghazi siege

By Sarah Bedford

Published December 8, 2015 9:15pm ET

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Emails suggest Pentagon had troops ready during Benghazi siege — Jeremy Bash, then the Defense Department's chief of staff, wrote in an email to top aides to Hillary Clinton the night of Sept. 11, 2012 that Gen. Martin Dempsey and the Joint Chiefs of Staff had "identified the forces that could move to Benghazi." (Julia Schmalz/Bloomberg) | Julia Schmalz

A new email made public Tuesday indicates the Pentagon had military forces at the ready when the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi was under siege, a claim the State Department has repeatedly disputed.

Jeremy Bash, then the Defense Department’s chief of staff, wrote in an email to top aides to Hillary Clinton the night of Sept. 11, 2012 that Gen. Martin Dempsey and the Joint Chiefs of Staff had “identified the forces that could move to Benghazi.”

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