The State Dept was intentionally trying to reduce their security foot print in many of these high risk places. It was partly budget and lack of personnel and partly that they felt it gave a negative impression of the US.
The buck still stopped with Hitlery.
while intentionally increasing their double-dealing, back-stabbing illegal weapons dealing to help overthrow the government.
That, and the fact that our State Department was intentionally staffing these CIA 'consulates' with known homosexuals and women, which made them stick out like a sore thumb in countries where homos and women are looked down upon (at least publicly).
Add to that the fact that the State Department made FUNDS AVAILABLE to allow Homosexual staff to take on local homosexuals and provide them with Health and Life Insurance. It's no wonder they couldn't afford heterosexual American guards.
AND: they didn’t knoooow, they just didn’t knowwww——
Yeah. They might think that invading a US compound would result in them getting killed. Can’t have that.
Hillary Clinton on State Dept. budget for FY 2012.
FY 2012 Budget Request March 10, 2011The second part of our request funds the extraordinary, temporary portion of our war effort the same way the Pentagon’s request is funded: in a separate Overseas Contingency Operations account known as OCO. Instead of covering war expenses through supplemental appropriations, we are now taking a more transparent approach that fully reflects the integrated civilian-military efforts. Our share of the President’s $126 billion request for exceptional wartime costs is $8.7 billion. So all told, we have a $47 billion operational account and an $8.7 billion Overseas Contingency Operations account.
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But let me just quickly walk you through this, because on this issue of our $8.7 billion Overseas Contingency Operations, we have the strongest support from Secretary Gates, from Admiral Mullen. And next week – I was speaking with General Petraeus last night. He will be here on the Hill strongly supporting the civilian effort that goes hand-in-hand with what he is doing so heroically in Afghanistan. So we are funding vital civilian missions in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq with this $8.7 billion.
As I recall, one of Hillary's responses to a request for heightened security in Libya was exactly that point. Something to the effect of "The President's policy is to minimize our security footprint, so as to appear less threatening".