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pinto

(106,886 posts) Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:15 PM Oct 2012

Rhodes (NSA) pointed out that the officials were requesting more security in Tripoli, not Benghazi.

The Cable asked Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications Ben Rhodes whether Biden was speaking for the entire Obama administration, including the State Department, which acknowledged receiving multiple requests for more Libya security in the months before the attacks. Rhodes said that Biden speaks only for himself and the president and neither of them knew about the requests at the time.

The State Department security officials who testified before House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's panel Wednesday never said they had made their requests to the president, Rhodes pointed out. That would be natural because the State Department is responsible for diplomatic security, not the White House, he said. Rhodes also pointed out that the officials were requesting more security in Tripoli, not Benghazi.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/12/white_house_obama_and_biden_were_never_aware_of_requests_for_more_benghazi_security

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Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:33 PM

Oct 2012

have not been handling this situation well at all. Benghazi is not where the US embassy is located, it's Tripoli as the OP said. Benghazi is a consulate where Ambassador Stevens visited periodically. This needs to be clarified. Consulates are known to have less security than embassies.

Also, the protest at the embassy in Cairo seems to have been conflated with the problems in Benghazi. There were protests over the movie in Cairo earlier in the day leading to the note from the Embassy there that's been criticized. It seems as though the CIA grouped the protests in Cairo with the problem in Benghazi to explain why they thought the consulate in Benghazi was attacked. Of course, the CIA might have just lied about it.

Another overlooked point is that the attack in Benghazi was retribution for us using a drone to take out the most recent Al Qaeda number two. We took him out on the 10th which led to the plot among the attackers that they could get payback for his death with the added bonus of doing it on 9-11.

We need a Dem to step up and spell this out.

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