Web Exclusive: State Department Dumped Benghazi Security Contractor 12 Days Before Attack

Breitbart.com ^ | 12 Sep 2017 | Adelle Nazarian

[Rockitz]

A State Department security contractor says that it was asked to provide security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi after a rival company failed to do the job, just 12 days before the terror attack of Sep. 11, 2012, which claimed the lives of four Americans.

Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, a large, Virginia-based security and private military contracting firm, told Breitbart News that the State Department approached the company less than two weeks before Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were brutally murdered.

Blue Mountain Group, the small Welsh security contractor to which the State Department initially awarded the contract over Torres’s bid earlier in the year, was allegedly failing on the job.

Torres, which is owned and operated by U.S. Special Forces veteran Jerry Torres, was initially denied the contract. Before Benghazi, Torres had provided armed guards for the United States embassies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the world. Blue Mountain, which is based in Wales, was apparently largely unknown in private contracting circles that were hired to work for the United States until the fateful attack on September 11, 2012.

“If we had been awarded that contract to protect the embassy compound in Benghazi, those men would still be alive today,” Bradley Owens, the political affairs officer for Torres told Breitbart News.

Owens said that on August 12, 2012 — just six months after Blue Mountain won the State Department contract for Benghazi — State Department official Jan Visintainer asked Torres’s director: “Hey, can Torres perform in Libya?”

Owens added:

We were asked 12 days before the attacks if we can come in and take over security. So they knew it wasn’t safe. Wait, it gets worse. We, of course, said yes. ...

[Rockitz]

State Department knew Benghazi was unsafe before the attack... another Obama/Hillary cover up...

[Don Corleone]

Catherine Herridge sure knows how to ferret out the dirt. WTG!!

[Ambrosia]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/13/clinton-state-department-silenced-them-on-benghazi-security-lapses-contractors-say.html

A good article on subject!

[Dutch Boy]

Looks like the ambassador was the victim of a coordinated hit. Was he about to spill the beans on Hillary or Obama?

[combat_boots]

The previous Tuesday, Stevens was almost killed in Tripoli, when he literally had to jump out of the way of a car that rammed the embassy gate. You used to be able to see the article from the English version of the local paper there in Tripoli.

Even the Red Cross and Canada lest Libya before Benghazi. Lots of people must have known about the dangers.

[G Larry]

I’m pretty sure we knew this almost right away.

[Diogenesis]

The corruption to murder the Ambassador,
and transfer weapons to ISIS and al Qaeda
went beyond the State Dept, which is why
the Senate could not care one bit.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

From Brietbart article :" “Many of the local Libyans who attacked the consulate on the night of Sept. 11, 2012,
were the actual guards that the State Department under Hillary Clinton hired to protect the consulate in Benghazi,” Tiegen told Fox News last year."
and later in the article:" ...the Blue Mountain contractors guarding the consulate were armed with batons."

Batons to protect from 'guys out for a walk with machine guns and rocket launchers'.
This was planned incompetence !

[TTFlyer]

None of it matters. The Swamp/Media Complex doesn’t care.

[Rapscallion]

Story is fake news to shift blame

[Rapscallion]

Story is fake news to shift blame

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Ping - Remember how approximately 15 minutes before the Benghazi attack
one of the embassy employees saw one of their security guards taking photos of the buildings and grounds ?
Clandestine spying immediately before the attack ?
Security provided by batons , ..indeed !
Didn't someone say you .. "bring a gun to a knife fight" ?

[SirLurkedalot]

Mrs Herridge doesn’t fear death anymore, hence her candor and vigor. The demon of cancer tried to take her but the Lord had other plans as usual :)

[poconopundit]

Thanks for that photo, Diogenesis. Very revealing.

[SGCOS]

,,State Department knew Benghazi was unsafe before the attack... another Obama/Hillary cover up...

I'm thinking the Awan brothers knew this also

[DrDude]

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[Chewbarkah]

If it filtered down to the Blue Mountain guards that they were getting the ax in 30 days or less, when a new security contractor would be in place, disloyal employees would be motivated to tell the local Al Qaeda commanders the time to act was NOW. Any “loyal” Blue Mountain employees would have zero reason to risk their lives protecting the Compound, and be easily talked down by the attackers.

The media’s conclusion: Whole thing was about disgruntled employees/workplace violence.

[originalbuckeye]

I do remember reading that Obama/Hillary hired a local group to provide security at the Benghazi Consulate. They didn’t want to ‘offend’ the locals by bringing in a security team form the USA. I can only surmise that the Diplomatic Corps (worldwide) was considered expendable when it came to security, during the ObamaHillary tenure.

[DaveA37]

Knowing that danger was eminent, those in charge (Clinton included) should be charged with “accessory to murder”. Wouldn’t that be nice?

[oldtech]

Hoping the Benghazi investigation doesn’t go away anytime soon. We really need to get to the bottom of this & see that justice is served for those who died & their families.