So now we know the truth. ONLY FIVE ARMED AMERICANS TO PROTECT THE AMBASSADOR AND THE CONSULATE. They beefed up security by adding barbed wire, sandbags, and closed circuit cameras? What kind of crap is that. Oh yeah, they had a 'rapid reaction' force stationed in Benghazi to assist them if needed. According to my sources, there were less than 35 TOTAL AMERICANS AT THE SAFE HOUSE, INCLUDING THE EIGHT AMERICANS WHO FLEW IN BY HELICOPTER FROM TRIPOLI TO 'RESCUE' THE STAFF. So out of 35, how many were unarmed staffers, and how many were armed American security.
Also, the video cameras installed totaled FOUR, the few sandbags were useless, and the barbed wire a mere annoyance to the murdering scum who assaulted the consulate.
Romney needs to harp on the failure to provide protection for the Ambassador, that is Obama's Achilles heal right now. The lack of security is something that can't be argued. Now they are arguing over whether it was premeditated or not. That is beside the damn point! The fact there was not enough armed Americans in the whole damn country to fend off an attack by 100 jihadis is the point. When the consulate staff called the embassy for backup, the embassy sent EIGHT private security contractors!! To fight off 100+ terrorists with RPG's, mortars, and AK-47's, all we could muster was eight people!!
Hasn't this already been proven a lie? Two of the 'guards detailed' to the post were in Tripoli for other reasons and responded to the attack at the last minute, and did not die of asphyxiation but were killed attempting a rescue?
With so much BS stinking up the place, there's got to be a herd of cattle around here somewhere.
Love the title (not)
Beefed up security ? They make it sound like there was security in the first place ...
What security ... as opposed to almost none....?
Time for me to watch my DVDs again. KHARTOUM and 55 DAYS AT PEKING. Or, how not to, and How to protect an embassy.
Both star Charlton Heston.
“...top State Department officials offered the agency’s most vigorous defense...”
Too bad their defense of US personnel was not as robust as their CYA defense.
Soooo Hillary what did you know and when did you know it????
That’s what I want in my next firefight, a video camera.
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Why on 9/11 was the ambassador in Benghazi rather than the more secure embassy building in Tripoli?
And how many of them only had handguns?
Given the size and power of the assault a dozen security guys would have made little difference. However, since there is ample evidence that we had intel three days prior, the ambassador should NEVER have been allowed to go into Jihadi Benghazi.
Excellent catch....
Beefed up security to me means a gatling gun chambered in.45-70. But that’s just me.
About 49,000. Cheap insurance.
Hmm. Remember last week when the state department claimed they couldn’t SAY ANYTHING because there was an investigation?
Now that it is more convenient for them to try to defend themselves, they seem to have no problem talking loudly, if not truthfully.
I’m still waiting for the final word from the man who knows everything about anything .... yes, Slow Joe .... it’s not real until Slow Joe says it is.