Posted on 12/10/2012 7:11:49 PM PST by kristinn
A source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi told Breitbart News that Senators who listened to closed door testimony about the Benghazi attack were shocked to learn State Department security personnel agents were not immediately armed.
Additionally, agents separated from Ambassador Chris Stevens left to retrieve their M4 weapons in a separate building. Only one returned to protect the Ambassador, while the other two hunkered down in the barracks, the source relayed.
“From the accounts I read, those guys were not ready. When the attack came that night, they had to go back to the other room and grab their weapons. Then the worse part about it was they never even returned to be with the Ambassador. One returned to be with the Ambassador with his rifle. The other two went back to where there were [sic] barracks. And two stayed in that same building where there were radios and other weapons and the safe and other stuff was there.
There were no shots fired in return. On the embassy property, just the embassy property, none of those security agents blasted a single bullet from a single pistol or rifle at all in defense of the Ambassador—nothing.”
Questions as to why the consulate security force was unarmed within the confines of the consulate will likely be asked of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She will be appearing in front of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs according to Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).
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One is left speechless
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And another...
HOWEVER, a whole passel full of people that should be talking are the most conspicuous with their collective silence screaming out.
As I seem to recall, she is very good at saying, "I don't recall."
One can’t help but wonder a little bit what the media reaction would have been if Nixon, Reagan, or Bush would have called the dead body of an ambassador “A bump on the road”. Where are the modern day Woodward & Bernsteins?
One of the media’s primary duties if a free society is to endure is to keep the politicians feet to the fire. Our media is AWOL.
Her tummy hurts???
But Barry got OBL...
This does not surprise me, when National Guard is put on the border to assist they are NOT armed either...makes NO sense.
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