Kennedy answers: no stand down order.
Is asked: who decided there was no resources to help?
Ms. Ros-Lehtinen not letti ng him dally.
Kennedy says nearest military force was in Djibuti(sp)
Ms. R-L says OK, message to embassies is that we can’t help, you all on our own. Cuts off Kennedy and says to him that funding was not an issue.
Gregory Meeks of NY is up. Blah blah blah, we have heard all this before.
Kennedy talking about attacks on Tunisia and Khartoum; embassies held out for over eight hours; no casualties.
Now with new funding, we can bring up facilities to new levels/construction.
exit82 says—then why use old buildings like the Benghazi compounds by State and by CIA that could not be defended?
No one wants to ask what was the CIA doin g in their BEnghazi faciltiy. If the CIA was not there, no one would have been evacuated from the embassy compund alive.