Posted on 10/21/2012 3:57:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
This past Friday the State Department released internal docs showing that Chris Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to hell’s corridor in Libya, begged Obama’s boys in D.C. to ramp up security in Benghazi. And, as we all know now, he got nothing from the State Department but was allowed to be tortured and murdered by “democracy seekers” from the “Religion of Peace” in the “liberated” nation of Libya.
As far as I am concerned, blood is dripping from Obama’s golf-gloved campaign hands. Whatever do I mean, you ask? Well, according to James Rosen’s findings in the newly released damning papers, it’s crap like …
· On September 11—the day Stevens and three other Americans were killed—the ambassador signed a three-page cable, labeled “sensitive,” in which he noted “growing problems with security” in Benghazi and “growing frustration” on the part of local residents with Libyan police and security forces. These forces the ambassador characterized as “too weak to keep the country secure.”
· Roughly a month earlier, Stevens had signed a two-page cable, also labeled “sensitive,” that he entitled “The Guns of August: Security in Eastern Libya.” Writing on August 8, the ambassador noted that in just a few months’ time, “Benghazi has moved from trepidation to euphoria and back as a series of violent incidents has dominated the political landscape … The individual incidents have been organized,” he added, a function of “the security vacuum that a diverse group of independent actors are exploiting for their own purposes.”
“Islamist extremists are able to attack the Red Cross with relative impunity,” Stevens cabled. “What we have seen are not random crimes of opportunity, but rather targeted and discriminate attacks.” His final comment on the two-page document was: “Attackers are unlikely to be deterred until authorities are at least as capable.”
· By September 4, Stevens’s aides were reporting back to Washington on the “strong revolutionary and Islamist sentiment” in the city.
Scarcely more than two months had passed since Stevens had notified the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and other agencies about a “recent increase in violent incidents,” including “attacks against western [sic] interests.” “Until the GOL [Government of Libya] is able to effectively deal with these key issues,” Stevens wrote on June 25, “the violence is likely to continue and worsen.”
· After the U.S. consulate in Benghazi had been damaged by an improvised explosive device, earlier that month, Stevens had reported to his superiors that an Islamist group had claimed credit for the attack, and in so doing had “described the attack as ‘targeting the Christians supervising the management of the consulate.’”
“Islamic extremism appears to be on the rise in eastern Libya,” the ambassador wrote, adding “the Al-Qaeda flag has been spotted several times flying over government buildings and training facilities …”
· In the days leading up to 9/11, warnings came even from people outside the State Department. A Libyan women’s rights activist, Wafa Bugaighis, confided to the Americans in Benghazi in mid-August: “For the first time since the revolution, I am scared.”
From the 166 hellish pages we see a stack of warnings, via multiple cables sent to D.C. from Chris’s own laptop about which diddly was done—and that being after prior bombings of the Red Cross and our own compound and an assassination attempt on the British ambassador. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. This is gross and inexcusable.
If what happened in Benghazi on 9/11 was not an act of terror, or an act of war, I don’t know what is. What’s the “Religion of Peace” got to do to wake this administration the heck up? Destroy one of Obama’s favorite golf courses?
Oh, BTW: Missing from the extensive documents is any mention of a YouTube video ticking these “peaceful protestors” off.
Someone please forward this over to Romney’s campaign for talking points for Monday night’s debate on “National Security.”
To me, this is one aspect of the entire Benghazi situation that has gotten very little attention so far. The battle raged for 8 hours, but no effort was made to send help to the embattled consulate. Why? This is something that Romney needs to ask Obama point blank during Monday's debate. He need to hammer this point home.
Once a Muslim always a Muslim. His whole ME foreign policy is tilted toward facilitation of radical dominance.
He's not a closet Muslim. He's out in the open with his actions and the only thing missing is a prayer rug with the Presidential Seal.
It's over for Zero. He should be in jail.
James Rosen and Bret Baier rock. I wish they could have teamed up with A Watergate-like exposé that would have registered an 8.2 on the Richter Scale.
I am yelling yes, yes, yes to your reply!
A six hour siege broadcast live on state dept net .. Might be on video tape as well. The CIA men weren’t even supposed to be there. How will Obama ever restore the Blind Shiek to the Egyptian brothers?
By now, Chris Stevens & Ron Brown are comparing notes on the dangers of working for any administration that includes a Clinton or an Obama.
I would argue negligence. Pure and simple.
The administration was drifting, leaderless, rudderless. There was no concern for reality. Reality would take care of its self. The total mental and physical effort of the top echelon was the campaign.
It was far more important to find and seize any possible Romney utterance than it was to react to the distraction of a threat in Libya. There are threats every where, all the time.
The campaign is here and now.
I on the other hand will be completely surprised if it wasn’t set up by Hillary and the WH.
BUMP! BUMP!
Who were these cables specifically addressed to at the state department and what did this person do with the communications?
People should be prosecuted and sent to prison. If not executed. But I won’t hold my breath even if Romney wins and the GOP takes the senate.
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