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  • US Embassy in Libya Sought $13,000-Per-Year Bodyguards..Preference to..‘Same-Sex Domestic Partners

    10/10/2012 9:51:01 AM PDT · by maggief · 21 replies
    CNSNews ^ | October 10, 2012 | Terence P. Jeffrey
    (CNSNews.com) - In the months leading up to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the U.S. Embassy in Libya was seeking to hire two bodyguards with “limited” English language skills at salaries of about $13,000 per year. Job descriptions for these openings that the U.S. Embassy in Libya posted online said the State Department would give preference in filling them to qualified U.S. citizens who were family members of U.S. government employees. The job descriptions explicitly stated that this included the “same-sex domestic partners” of U.S. government employees. In addition to the two bodyguards, the...
  • Dems accuse GOP of cutting security funding in Libya despite majority Dem support for vote

    10/10/2012 5:36:52 PM PDT · by chessplayer · 8 replies
    House Democrats opened Wednesday’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing by attacking Republicans for cuts to embassy security funding — cuts that only happened thanks to overwhelming support from House Democrats, INCLUDING House Oversight Committee Ranking Democratic member Rep. Elijah Cummings. In fact, more House Democrats – 149 of them — voted for the cuts than did House Republicans, of which 147 voted for them.