They presented the info they thought was reliable at the time,
Susan Rice has full security clearance and should have done her own research prior to appearing on 5 Sunday morning talk shows and lying.
BO knew it was a planned terrorist attack yet he lied to the U.N. weeks later about the video causing the attack.
Lets talk about the Republican commitee that DENIED FUNDING for the security team in Benghazi?
Can you post a link to prove who denied funding specifically for a security team in Benghazi? Remember Benghazi is/was NOT a US embassy. It was a CIA operation!
" In a letter addressed to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to which The New York Times provided a link , representatives Darrell Issa (R-Ca) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Ut) wrote: "...Prior to the September 11 attack, the US mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi. The mission in Libya, however, was denied these resources by officials in Washington."
The State Dept needs to get their priorities right!
They have 15,000 contractors in Baghdad and cant' get a few more security personnel in Libya?
As the events leading up to the attack in Libya came to light we learned that despite the tenuous situation in post-Qaddafi Libya, “the State Department did not include Libya on a list of dangerous postings that are high priority for extra security resources.” We also know that requests were made for additional security but that the State Department denied those requests (an issue Joe Biden lied about during the debate).
To make matters worse, it seems the State Department put green energy investments ahead of embassy and personnel security in dangerous countries. Investors.com has the details:
What Biden was denying was pointed out by Eric Nordstrom during his testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last Wednesday. Nordstrom, a regional security officer of the U.S. Mission to Libya from September 2011 to July 2012, said that, among other things, he was told in a phone call in July that the deployment of the site security team, a 16-member American military unit based in Tripoli, could not be prolonged.
According to Nordstrom, the State Department not only refused his requests for greater security, but also actually reduced the number of Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agents assigned to foreign service officers based in Libya. Security was left to one DSS agent, four armed members of the 17th of February Martyrs Brigade and unarmed Libyan contractors employed by the British-based Blue Mountain Group.
In a May 3, 2012, email on which Ambassador Stevens was copied, the State Department denied a request by a group of Special Forces assigned to protect the U.S. Embassy in Libya to continue their use of a DC-3 airplane for security operations throughout the country.
And now for the even more disturbing part about where the Obama administration placed their priorities:
The funding was never cut - the Senate never voted for it.Four days after the use of an ancient DC-3, along with other security requests, was being denied, on May 7, 2012, the State Department authorized the U.S. Embassy in Vienna to purchase a $108,000 electric-vehicle charging station for the embassy motor pool’s new Chevrolet Volts .
As Rep. Mike Kelly points out in a Washington Times op-ed, the purchase was a part of the State Department’s “Energy Efficiency Sweep of Europe” initiative, which included hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on green program expenditures at various U.S. embassies.
At a May 10 gala held at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, the ambassador showcased his new Volts and other green investments as part of the U.S. government’s commitment to “climate change solutions.” The event posting on the embassy website read: “Celebrating the Greening of the Embassy.”
They have 15,000 contractors in Baghdad and cant' get a few more security personnel in Libya?
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/1012...zi-cut.htm
The funding was never cut - the Senate never voted for it.
But here's the best part - 127 Republicans voted to cut funding, just over half of the House GOP.
But 129 Democrats, 2/3 of the House Dems, voted for the cut. That's MORE Dems than Republicans and a MUCH higher percentage!
But here's the best part - 127 Republicans voted to cut funding, just over half of the House GOP.
But 129 Democrats, 2/3 of the House Dems, voted for the cut. That's MORE Dems than Republicans and a MUCH higher percentage!
