I was watching Chris Mathews yesterday, and it is quite humorous to watch his local Obama ass kissers explain that yes, Benghazi was a major failure of our State Department, they underestimated the meaning of the anniversary of 9-11, and should have beefed up security or at least had some type of plan in the newest hot spots, Lybia being one.
But, Hillary had nothing to do with this. After all, she was just Secretary of State. It was up to lower echelon officials to take care of this type of thing.
They even went so far as to blame the sitting ambassador, Chris Stevens, because he did not want too much of a military presence because he was trying to win the hearts and souls of the Lybians by being a man of the people. Too much American Military would reek of "occupation"
Every Democrat on the planet has their marching orders. Yes, admitt that we royally fucked up in the whole Benghazi affair. We should have known that the Rag Heads had something planned. Our response was a cluster fuck from minute one, and continued on through with that ridiculous "video" crap.
Admit all of this, but remind people that in no way should Hillary be at fault.
After all, she is first and foremost, "Mrs Bill Clinton".
And in Democrat politics, that trumps everything.
Originally Posted by Jackie S
Steven's requests for additional security were denied by the State Department, and he was directed not to ask for additional security. So the lib-retards' attempt to blame Stevens for Hildabeast's failures is disgustingly fraudulent.
July 9, 2012: Amb. Stevens sends a cable requesting continued help from military Site Security Team (SST) and State Dept. MSD (Mobile Security Deployment team) through mid-Sept. 2012, saying that benchmarks for a drawdown have not been met. The teams are not extended.
Early August: State Dept. removes the last of three 6-man State Dept. security teams and a 16-man military SST team from Libya.
August 2, 2012: Ambassador Stevens sends a cable to D.C. requesting "protective detail bodyguard postions" -- saying the added guards "will fill the vacuum of security personnel currently at post... who will be leaving with the next month and will not be replaced." He called "the security condition in Libya ... unpredictable, volatile and violent."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/benghazi...tack-unfolded/
One person familiar with the events said Stevens might have rejected the offers because there was an understanding within the State Department that officials in Libya ought not to request more security, in part because of concerns about the political fallout of seeking a larger military presence in a country that was still being touted as a foreign policy success.
“The embassy [Stevens] was told through back channels to not make direct requests for security,” an official familiar with the case, who agreed to discuss the case only anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject, told McClatchy.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/1...-military.html
“Despite the denial of Ambassador Stevens’ request, Embassy Tripoli officials persisted in their requests for additional security. In July 2012, for example, RSO Eric Nordstrom alerted DS officials in Washington that he intended to submit a formal cable request for an extension of the SST and MSD teams. DS personnel in Washington alerted Mr. Nordstrom that Ms. Lamb, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security, was “reluctant to ask for an SST extension, apparently out of concern that it would be embarrassing to the [State Department] to continue to have to rely on [Defense Department] assets to protect our Mission.” Moreover, in response to Mr. Nordstrom’s intent to request an MSD extension,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb responded, “NO, I do not [I repeat] not want them to ask for the MSD [Mobile Security Deployments] team to stay!”http://www.examiner.com/article/it-does-make-a-difference-hillary-benghazi-revisited-politics-as-usual-1
Eric Nordstrom, the regional security officer posted in Libya, told the Congressional committee in an interview that the State Department extended the Special Security Team’s tour from February, and then informed the embassy,
“We do not want to see you make another request for an extension of the SST.” Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/0...#storylink=cpy