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Related: About this forumGOP's trying to make Benghazi an election issue, BUT security requests were for Tripoli NOT Benghazi
Focus Was on Tripoli in Requests for Security in Libya
WASHINGTON In the weeks leading up to the attack last month on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, diplomats on the ground sounded increasingly urgent alarms. In a stream of diplomatic cables, embassy security officers warned their superiors at the State Department of a worsening threat from Islamic extremists, and requested that the teams of military personnel and State Department security guards who were already on duty be kept in service.
The requests were denied, but they were largely focused on extending the tours of security guards at the American Embassy in Tripoli not at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, 400 miles away. And State Department officials testified this week during a hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that extending the tour of additional guards a 16-member military security team through mid-September would not have changed the bloody outcome because they were based in Tripoli, not Benghazi.
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Full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/world/africa/cables-show-requests-to-state-dept-for-security-in-libya-were-focused-on-tripoli.html
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GOP's trying to make Benghazi an election issue, BUT security requests were for Tripoli NOT Benghazi (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Oct 2012
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flamingdem
(39,313 posts)1. I was just listening to the McLaughlin Group on PBS
4 out of 5 blaming the Obama administration and the one Democrat not able or aware of the chain of command or how to answer the accusations. There is a need for a statement.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)2. Also ...
The folks on the TV need to mention that The USA has SEVERAL HUNDRED embassies and consulates around the world.
Here is a LONG LIST, too many too count: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Embassy
There is NO WAY that the White House (Obama/Biden) ever heard of any security requests from any of them, those would not go to the White House.
On TV the other day someone said that there are a few security requests EVERY WEEK.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)3. The GOP is a dog with a bone on this one
So logic might not be enough. I'm wondering what would be.
They just don't want to agree that it's not Obama's fault, Biden has so much experience blah blah, it's a way to attack Biden too.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)4. The rethugs desperation is showing.