I need proof, not some second hand claim. IF Clinton requested more security there is documentation.
Same for me. Too many “ unprovables” without the timeline/paperwork/more than he said/she said.
O & the Clintons are masters at trying to have it both ways
Both of you are right not to bite on this. We have decades of Hillary’s habit of lying, even under oath. If she has any documentation of her request to DOD or the White House it flies in the face of the testimony below. I haven’t read the direct hearing transcript, but someone surely asked the question of the origin of the denial for additional protection if it came from above the State Dept., which can only mean the White House.
Recall as well the copies of letters or e-mail from Patrick Kennendy (State dept head of DPS ?) Which specifically denied additional security as well as taking away the DC-3 aircraft that Stevens had.
[Oct 10, 2012. Excerpt]
Fingers as to who was responsible for the denied security requests increasingly pointed to Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Programs Charlene Lamb, who was the stateside officer in charge of fielding appeals for more resources.
Nordstrom’s requests were reportedly rejected by Lamb because she wanted to keep the U.S. security presence ?artificially low,? according to a memo released by committee Democrats ahead of the hearing.
Lamb testified, under a line of questioning from Issa, that the consulate had enough security resources given what officials detected as known threats to the U.S. facility.
Issa said Lamb’s comment “somehow doesn’t seem to ring true to the American people,” because there had already been an attack on the consulate earlier this year and U.S.’s radar should have been on high-alert given that it was the 11th anniversary of 9/11.
But Lamb said two of her supervisor
s assistant secretary of State for diplomatic security Eric Boswell and the principal deputy assistant secretary for diplomatic security and director of the Diplomatic Security Service Scott P. Bultrowicz ? signed off on the decision to withhold the security forces.