IRANIAN-BORN VALERIE JARRETT
"Well- let me commend you...."
“Why didn’t you put forces in place to be ready to respond?,” Senator John McCain asked the general.
Dempsey started, “Because we never received a request to do so, number one. And number two, we —”
McCain iterrupted, “You never heard of Ambassador Stevens’s repeated warnings?”
“I had, through General Ham,” responded Dempsey, referring to the commander of AFRICOM. “But we never received a request for support from the State Department, which would have allowed us to put forces—”
“So it’s the State Department’s fault?”
“I’m not blaming the State Department,” Dempsey responded.
>>> “So it’s the State Department’s fault?”
“I’m not blaming the State Department,” Dempsey responded. <<<
Petraeus testified, it was not CIA’s fault either.