Odd how the same Obama Administration officials have nothing to say about how they compromised the lives of Ambassador Stevens and his aide, who put their lives at risk by leaving the Embassy and going to the consulate in AlQaeda-controlled territory without any Marine guard detail (despite numerous requests for them)... or the two SEALs that came to their defense, and were left without help during the 6 HOUR firefight. Hmmm. Must be a non-optimal bump or something.
I could almost believe that Hillary let Issa get those documents just for the purpose of discrediting ALL of Issa’s investigations.
Who would put it past her?
Foreign Policy whoever they are should know the word is “redact” not “retract”. Also the bad guys already have the names of those people working with us because they were taken from the embassy during the attack.
Issa, DO NOT BACKOFF! Don’t let the guilty intimidate you or make you feel responsible. If not for you we might have never known we had traitors at the highest levels of our govt.
“...unclassified State Department...”
Why unclassified if it had sensitive information in it, especially identities of sympathetic Libyan operatives?
This is a better read and at least the term redact is used instead of unretracted....
Sure. Blame Issa. The whole shebang was blown before the consulate/mission/whatever was attacked. The buck stops with the Executive branch.
They hand to Issa a document they say is unclassified and then blame him for releasing it? The people who handed him the document need to be fired and then prosecuted for criminal negligence.
The identities of those Libyans were probably already discovered by the terrorists in the aftermath of the attack. No investigative unit from the U.S. was able to access the Consulate for weeks, and the terrorists had free-reign to take whatever documents they wanted.
What about the Obamanation leaks of the Bin Laden raid? Nobody was supposed to know which unit did it. That Pakistani doctor was arrested. And who knows how many others have lost their lives so Zero can thump his chest?
I understood from earlier reports that the terrorists had taken all of the sensitive records from the embassy and the names of the people working with the Americans had already been compromised. Apparently there was no time to destroy files due to the swiftness of the attack and the lack of security.
Obama is caught dealing arms to Al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda is the enemy of the USA.
Obama is a traitor!
This probably saved some innocent Lybyan’s life by putting their names out. Now that they know the identity they can’t go out and execute some stranger and say “We got him!”
I call BS. I’ve watched Issa for years and years and know him to be a patriot and an unequivocal supporter of our military/security forces above all. He would never knowingly release classified documents that put any clandestine resources in jeopardy. He is too smart and too experienced. Issa and Inhofe are our top 2 congress critters.
The Obama Agency that de-classified the documents had the responsibility to redact any sensitive data such as names that shouldn’t be released to the public.
Therefore, in addition to failing in their duty to keep Americans safe overseas, they failed to protect the identity of collaborators and will have additional blood on their hands.
It’s up to the Executive Branch to redact names. If they declassified it, it is THEIR negligence, or insidiousness. Bob
released 166 pages of unclassified State Department communications
If they are unclassified then what is the issue?
We’re told that Libya is now friendly. So why worry about exposing names of those working with us? We don’t worry about exposing Saudis who work with us.
If they are so unfriendly, why didn’t our people have security?