Posted on 10/12/2012 9:10:19 AM PDT by KansasGirl
Testimony in a congressional hearing Wednesday on the Sept. 11 outrage against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi fueled a growing suspicion: President Barack Obama’s administration was more concerned about projecting the image of improving stability in Libya, to bolster his re-election chances, than it was about ensuring the security of Americans on the ground there.
The fact of a successful terrorist attack against the U.S. on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — a day, above all others, when security for American officials in volatile countries should be at its utmost — is demoralizing and infuriating.
After months of concern by diplomats in Libya about the country’s deteriorating security, Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three embassy employees were murdered by heavily armed and organized terrorists. The possibility the government could have prevented their deaths by responding to their pleas for greater security is devastating.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb, who helps oversee diplomatic security, acknowledged in the hearing that she had told security officials at the U.S. Embassy in the capital city of Tripoli not to bother asking for more security help after the assignment of a supplemental security team ended in August.
Security officer Eric A. Nordstrom told Congress members he took Lamb’s refusal to mean “there was going to be too much political cost.”
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His further comment at Wednesday’s hearing is damning: “The takeaway from that, for me and my staff: It was abundantly clear we were not going to get resources until the aftermath of an incident. And the question that we would ask is, again, ‘How thin does the ice have to get before someone falls through?’ ”
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obama and his cohorts are completely les incompetents, grossly negligent
Here is hope that MANY CIA/Intelligence/ATF and other government agents BLOW THE WHISTLE and LEAK LEAK LEAK!
It is as if Obama struck the match and Biden threw more fuel on the fire.
Someone is guilty of murder, plain and simple.
I guess the Columbus Dispatch is farly moderate if not to the right. But it is an Ohio paper and I will take it!
There’ll be a thread or two soon enough but
just saw on FoX
News now..
Moments ago..
WH Presser.
Jay Carney: Biden and Obama didn’t know about the Libya requests. uhhh Bo ate them or something.
and then, the question is m.. Why?
Why wasn’t there a standing order that any blip in the road , hitch in the rope-a-dope, glitch in the field, is not super high priority for both The Pres__ent and his henchmeany, Idios? Was a 3 am call below the dignity of the Oval Orifice occupant?
Lives are at stuck.
Don’t they owe those who serve them that at least?
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