The CIA is not responsible for the security of our embassy facilities. The State Department is the responsible agency.
Originally Posted by NiceGuy53
and the State Dept made the decision not to risk the lives on many for the lives of 4..
deal with it
Former Defense Secretary
Robert Gates knocked critics of the Obama administration's response to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, saying many have a "cartoonish view of military capabilities."
"We don't have a ready force standing by in the Middle East, despite all the turmoil that's going on — with planes on strip alert, troops ready to deploy at a moment's notice — and so getting somebody there in a timely way would have been very difficult, if not impossible
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