Benghazi attack - Terrorists or unruly crowd?

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Originally Posted by merrylander

Utter bullshit mezzie, the lady testifying before Daryl Issa's witchhunt said she refused additional security (remember the goopers cut the appropriation). No reference was made to her asking the WH for an opinion.

But by all means let's not let the facts get in the way.

In testimony, Charlene Lamb, deputy assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security (the lady), was asked, “Was there any budget consideration and lack of budget which led you not to increase the number of people in the security force there?”


Lamb responded, “No, sir.”

But by all means let's not let the facts get in the way.



Maybe we should be looking at this administration priorities on how and where they spend the money.


"In a May 3, 2012, email, the State Department denied a request by a group of Special Forces assigned to protect the U.S. embassy in Libya to continue their use of a DC- 3 airplane for security operations throughout the country. …

Four days later, on May 7, the State Department authorized the U.S. embassy in Vienna to purchase a $108,000 electric vehicle charging station for the embassy motor pool’s new Chevrolet Volts. The purchase was a part of the State Department’s “Energy Efficiency Sweep of Europe” initiative, which included hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on green program expenditures at various U.S. Embassies.

In fact, at a May 10 gala held at the U.S. embassy in Vienna, the ambassador showcased his new Volts and other green investments as part of the U.S. government’s commitment to “climate change solutions.”

While the embassy in Vienna was going green, the consulate in Benghazi was getting bombed, and little was done to stop it.
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