[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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State Department officials have told CBS News that Wood was not part of the security assessment in Benghazi and that his assignment to Tripoli means he was unfamiliar with the local situation in the smaller port city in the country's east.

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Headquarters has spoken.....doubt they had ever visited that small city.

[TigersEye]

State Department officials have told CBS News that Wood was not part of the security assessment in Benghazi and that his assignment to Tripoli means he was unfamiliar with the local situation in the smaller port city in the country's east.

Are they saying that Benghazi was deliberately being isolated?