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Why would they send a gay to be ambassador in Benghazi? Doesnâ€™t sound like a very good decision. The information never really leaked out because there was much more to the story. Still cannot understand why they didnâ€™t support Stevens? Was he the man who knew too much?

Stevens was ambassador to Libya. He was a career foreign service officer who spent most of his career in the Arab world and spoke Arabic. He was a key interlocutor during the Libyan civil war.

I am fairly confident in saying that the State Department recommended to the WH that Stevens be named the Ambassador to Libya.

From 1983 to 1985, he taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco.

Stevens joined the United States Foreign Service in 1991. His early overseas assignments included: deputy principal officer and political section chief in Jerusalem; political officer in Damascus; consular/political officer in Cairo and consular/economic officer in Riyadh. In Washington, Stevens served as Director of the Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs; Pearson Fellow with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senator Richard Lugar; special assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Iran desk officer and staff assistant in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.

He had served in Libya twice previously: as the Deputy Chief of Mission (from 2007 to 2009) and as Special Representative to the National Transitional Council (from March 2011 to November 2011) during the Libyan revolution. He arrived in Tripoli in May 2012 as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. Stevens spoke English, French and some Arabic.

I doubt his sexual preferences had anything to do with his selection to be Ambassador. He was simply the best qualified for the job. I also doubt that Obama or Hillary knew him well either. Hillary got his name wrong the night of the attack on Benghazi.

Was Hillary incompetence the reason for her not responding to Steven’s cry for more protection? When it came to raising money through the Clinton Foundation, she was busy answering e-mails while getting paid as Sec. of State. How can public servants get away with working other jobs, not focusing on their job descriptions? Are many of these political appointed hacks qualified to lead very complicated agencies? They go in poor and become rich milking the political system. They are not patriots!

I'm sure you are correct your stuff is always impeccable and I only bring up the obvious to suggest that even though he was undoubtedly the best man for the job he still had a target on his back. I read in several blogs, don't have links handy, that he had met zero in Chicago which would not have been out of the ordinary.

The only relevance of his sexual preference is that he becomes a bigger target for the bad guys only reason I brought it up.He definitely needed the extra security he requested. How do you explain his requests for additional security being denied.And then the night of the 13 hours is totally inexplainable.

I think part of why he was killed is that he knew too much as you state he was imminently qualified. I also read he had converted to Islam as far as that goes.