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Email shows State Department rejecting Libyan embassy security assistance
American Thinker ^ | 10/05/2012 | Rick Moran

Posted on 10/05/2012 7:06:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Recall that the State Department has denied that there were any requests for additional security.

ABC News:

ABC News has obtained an internal State Department email from May 3, 2012, indicating that the State Department denied a request from the security team at the Embassy of Libya to retain a DC-3 airplane in the country to better conduct their duties.

Copied on the email was U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in a terrorist attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya,  Sept. 11, 2012, along with three other Americans. That attack has prompted questions about whether the diplomatic personnel in that country were provided with adequate security support.

No one has yet to argue that the DC-3 would have  definitively  made a difference for the four Americans killed that night. The security team in question, after all, left Libya in August.

But the question - both for the State Department, which is conducting an internal investigation, and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is holding hearings next week - is whether officials in Washington, D.C., specifically at the State Department, were as aware as they should have been about the deteriorating security situation in Libya, and whether officials were doing everything they could to protect Americans in that country.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazigate; benghazisecurity; breach; documents; floor; libya; security; terrorism

1 posted on 10/05/2012 7:06:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

A DC-3????????????????


2 posted on 10/05/2012 7:11:07 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: SeekAndFind

SOOOO, were they set up to be “executed”?


3 posted on 10/05/2012 7:13:26 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who leaked this to ABC? Someone not in either Obama’s or Hillary’s camp? Whose camp then? Perhaps maybe people fed up with business as usual when 4 Americans are dead? /rhetorical


4 posted on 10/05/2012 7:13:37 AM PDT by PghBaldy (I am sick of Obama's and Hillary's apologies to muslims, especially after 11 September 2012.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Ford to New York: "Drop Dead"

Hillary to Benghazi Ambassador: "Get F****d"

5 posted on 10/05/2012 7:14:24 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Path to 9-11-12


6 posted on 10/05/2012 7:15:19 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: SeekAndFind
There's a DOD "DC3" which stands for Defense Cyber Crimes Center, but that doesn't make sense in this context. The person who wrote the email was likely confused.
7 posted on 10/05/2012 7:26:15 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
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To: Steely Tom

LOL
We’re both getting too old. You for posting the terse “Ford to New York: ‘Drop Dead’” and me for instantly recalling the NY dailies 72pt screaming headlines.

Probably have folks scratching their heads wondering WTH is he talking about?


8 posted on 10/05/2012 7:27:02 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: SeekAndFind

If Bush had been president he would have been accused of deliberately not giving protection to our ambassador because he disaproved of his sexual orientation!
I am not kidding.


9 posted on 10/05/2012 7:27:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism comes from an incurable mental illness.)
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To: Proud2BeRight
Looking further, there are apparently still some DC-3's in service in Third World areas
10 posted on 10/05/2012 7:30:40 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
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To: PapaBear3625

Maybe they could have used a ‘36 Ford for a quick escape too.


11 posted on 10/05/2012 7:33:02 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Proud2BeRight

Puff the magic dragon??????


12 posted on 10/05/2012 7:33:42 AM PDT by Datom
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To: Proud2BeRight

The only DC-3 that immediately comes to mind that might be useful in that context is the military version, a C-47 gunship from the Viet Nam era. But Spooky isn’t as useful as guns on the ground.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_AC-47_Spooky


13 posted on 10/05/2012 7:36:37 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yesterday there was a headline mentioning that top secret documents were left strewn on the floor in Benghazi. No one had bothered to pick them up. Maybe that’s where the media is getting info. Wonder what happened to the computers there, I’m assuming there WERE computers.


14 posted on 10/05/2012 7:47:39 AM PDT by madison10
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary washing the Ambassador’s and our Seal’s blood off her hands??


15 posted on 10/05/2012 7:48:29 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: PapaBear3625
"....Looking further, there are apparently still some DC-3's in service in Third World areas....."

I have personally seen a fleet of them sitting at San Juan PR airport...

16 posted on 10/05/2012 7:52:14 AM PDT by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: PghBaldy
Who leaked this to ABC?

Somebody in the State Department who's really really angry that Zero and Hill's bumbling got a career officer killed.

17 posted on 10/05/2012 10:15:08 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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