Posted on 09/24/2013 10:50:20 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
The admission by Patrick Kennedy, under secretary of state for management, raises immediate questions about what was transpiring at the U.S. mission and why the State Department would fear drawing attention to a compound wrongly described by much of the news media as a “consulate.”
The mission was reportedly established without the knowledge or permission of the interim Libyan government.
Kennedy was responding to a question from Rep. Alan Grayson, R-Fla., at last week’s House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Grayson had asked: “Was there any money that was appropriated for the purpose of improving that post that was unspent at that time?”
“No sir, we were – there was no specific money appropriated for Benghazi,” Kennedy replied. “We were simply taking money from other locations. But all the requests that they put forward as I mentioned, save one – which is the guard towers which were determined to be unnecessary and potentially too attention-getting, we – all their requests were fulfilled.”
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It was a secret CIA operation running guns to Al Qaeda fighting an illegal proxy war. Guard towers would have made it too obvious.
“The mission was reportedly established without the knowledge or permission of the interim Libyan government. “
Yet ANOTHER and FURTHER oversight and ignorance of protocol, etc. for this administration.
They ARE ‘The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight’!
The Keystone Cops have NOTHING on THIS crowd!
“O” and his crowd could screw up a one car funeral!
Just like Clinton’s failed mission in Somalia that was the fiasco known as Black Hawk Down.
Nobody has said what 30 CIA guys were doing in Benghazi.
None of the 30 CIA guys has spoken about what occurred.
What are they hiding?
It isn’t a US Mission if the parent country isn’t made aware of it. It certainly wasn’t a consulate. It was a secret CIA safe house. Why was our ambassador at a CIA safe house? Who knew he was going to be there.
“The mission was reportedly established without the knowledge or permission of the interim Libyan government. “
So, we didn’t trust the Libyan government enough to tell them where this mission was, but we instead trusted the Islamist militias that Obama was dealing with? Brilliant plan.
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