Who was responsible for the safety of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya?

Who was responsible for the security of the Ambassador? What was the plan to ensure his safety and the safety of the other U.S. citizens? Were warning signs ignored? Did the marines have ammunition? What were their rules of engagement? Did they have tear gas, grenades? How many of them were there? Where were their reinforcements? Who ordered the chopper with the squad from across the desert? What was the outcome? Was the ambassador tortured before he died? Did the President attend his security briefings the week before the murders?

I do not watch MSM, but I presume these topics have not received much coverage. These questions need to be answered.

Hillary Diane Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois. So that would be Illincide or Illinegligence. It’s the Chicago way, you know. Ms. Rodham wrote her senior thesis, a critique of the tactics of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky. She has stopped critiquing him, and is a follower now. It seems like every time you turn around this S.O.B. Alinsky is involved!

I had a business appointment at the US embassy in a Latin American country whose government is strongly anti American and there are often ant American demonstrations in the streets organized by the governing leftist party. I went through three layers of security before entering the embassy building for my meeting. The first two layers were 100% administered by local security guards. Not an American to be seen and most of the locals did not speak English. The third security station was also staffed by locals, however there was a US citizen to greet my party and execute a final review of papers. I never saw a Marine.

The security guards impressed me as being the quality of the average TSA agent or rent a cop in the US.

It occurred to me at the time if the Embassy were ever attacked by a mob, it would overrun the security quickly unless the local police and military intervened quickly. Unfortunately I doubt under this administration the Marines would be allowed to appear in strength and defend the embassy with lethal weapons.

Another observation was most of the physical security barriers were designed to keep suicide car bombers from getting close enough to the buildings to cause damage. The fences appeared to be designed for decoration and to keep casual pedestrians from walking onto the grounds. An unrestrained mob would have been over them in seconds.

Based on what I have seen, as well as the news events of the past week, I’m glad I am not employed by the foreign service overseas.

Then his life was wasted and the truth of how he died are irrelevant. This is shameful. These questions beg to be answered and no one will ask them, no one cares. He apparently, is just considered expendable by the State Department.

You are likely correct - he was sacrificed in the hopes that Obama wouldn't have to admit failure of regime-change policy.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.