Posted on 01/22/2013 7:05:42 AM PST by yoe
Cable from Chris Stevens was chock full of reports on regional violence, concerns about local security capabilities
Just hours before he died in a terrorist attack at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Ambassador Chris Stevens sent a cable to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton painting a chaotic, violent portrait of the eastern Libya city and warning that local militias were threatening to pull the security they afforded U.S. officials....
[snip] Militia leaders told U.S. officials just two days before the attack that they were angered by U.S. support of a particular candidate for Libyan prime minister and warned they would not continue to guarantee security in Benghazi, a critical function they asserted they were currently providing, Stevens wrote in the cable the morning of Sept. 11, 2012.
[snip] Stevens cable is likely to become a central focus of congressional hearings that begin Wednesday -- hearings where Clinton will be pressed to explain why security for diplomats in the region wasnt increased in the weeks before the attack and why so much reliance was placed on local security forces with dubious loyalties.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonguardian.com ...
If they are, we should go to the capital with, er, pitchforks and bust those doors down. Sick of this closed door garbage. That’s why I’m not all that mad at Julian Assange. I don’t care if he is a commie, a government of the people has no business keeping so many secrets from the people.
I'm even more skeptical than you are. There could be video of Obama offing the Ambassador with a drone strike on CNN live and 53% of the voters wouldn't life a finger.
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At the very least, if Obama and Hillary had eventually gone after the terrorist who attacked the mission in Benghazi, maybe they could have prevented the massive kidnapping in Algeria. In fact, maybe something in Hillary’s testimony might have given someone in DC a clue that the same terrorist and weapons would have been used in Algeria. What is going to happen tomorrow as Al Qeada is reinvigorated because the Prezzy has made Osama Bin Laden into one of the greatest Muslim martyrs of all time ?
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