John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Introduction and Day 1 of the 12 day series]
John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 2 and Day 3 of the 12 day series]
John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 4 of the 12 day series]
John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 5 of the 12 day series]
John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Days 6, 7 and 8 of the 12 day series]
John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Days 9 Parts 1 - 4 of the 12 day series] (includes one min video tributes honoring each of the 4 Americans killed in Benghazi)
John “TIG” Tiegen
@TigTiegen
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12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI:
DAY 10
Ambassador Chris Stevens was back in Benghazi.
But understand something before I go any further:
The security problems in Benghazi was already known. This wasn’t discovered after four Americans were dead.
The people on the ground had been warning Washington for months. They asked for more Security. They asked to keep additional military security in Libya. Ambassador Stevens himself backed requests for more security.
And Washington’s response?
Requests were reduced.
Requests were denied! Other requests went unanswered…WTF!
The military Site Security Team was allowed to leave!
Charlene Lamb, THE Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
When Regional Security Officer Eric Nordstrom wanted to keep additional Mobile Security Deployment personnel in Libya, Lamb wrote:
“NO, I do not [I repeat] not want them to ask for the MSD team to stay!”
Read that again.
Had nothing to do with funding!
This was happening while the threat was getting worse and after attacks happened not before.
The U.S. compound in Benghazi had already been bombed.
A hole had already been blown through its perimeter wall.
The British Ambassador’s convoy had already been attacked with an RPG.
So, Western targets were being hit.
Extremist groups were operating in eastern Libya.
And the people on the ground were saying: We need more security.
Washington still did not give them the security posture they were asking for and needed!
And after Benghazi?
Charlene Lamb wasn’t fired from the State Department.
She was placed on administrative leave, later reinstated, and given another assignment.
That tells you a hell of a lot about accountability in Washington.
Get Americans killed and move up!
But responsibility did not stop at Charlene Lamb’s desk.
Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State.
Chris Stevens was not some stranger buried deep inside her department. Hillary had selected him to represent the United States during the Libyan revolution and later nominated him to become Ambassador.
Hillary knew Libya was unstable. Her department knew Benghazi was dangerous, all verified from her secret server emails.
Her security people on the ground were asking for more help, attacks had already happened, warnings had already been written.
The requests had already been sent and denied.
Maybe Hillary personally didn’t deny every or any security request because the record does not show that.
But this was her State Department. So despite everything her department knew, the security on the ground did not match the threat in Benghazi that was growing.
Then came September 10.
Chris came to the CIA Annex, where he received a briefing on what we were seeing in eastern Libya.
Later he went to meet with the Benghazi Local Council and something happened that matters. The media showed up, now his presence in Benghazi was public.
Think about the position they had put him and his team in!
The threat was known, previous attacks were known, requests for more security were known.
The Ambassador was now physically in Benghazi, now people outside the U.S. government knew he was there too.
And the clock was almost out for one desperate U.S Consulate begging for help!
They were being treated as the redheaded stepchild!
One day left.
Hillary had already been given multiple opportunities to act.
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