Benghazi Attack

[flyboy56]

Or maybe they underestimated the threat posed by Islamic extremists in Libya?

Remember, Stevens turned down offers for more security twice...

No. His superiors turned down those request. Stevens did not make those decisions. He could only request them through proper State Department channels which we know he did. General Ham was not a part of Stevens' chain of command.

[flyboy56]

No but this goes back to the congressional selective amnesia where the same compiound was hit four times in three years killing 51 people and no one cared, no hearings, no nothing. Of course we had a different president than!

Can't blame Obama for the death of Stevens. He didn't know one of his ambassadors was sent to Benghazi. Hell, Obama didn't even know eastern Libya was full of Islamic extremist. But the CIA did, and so did the new President of Libya who warned us he could not protect that area.

[hst2]

It is really is unimportant whether they knew the attack was preplanned or not. What they had was recent terrorist attacks in the area the forced the British Embassy and the International Red Cross out. 42 incidents were recorded in the area prior to the attacks on the American facilities. Did you expect the terrorists to send a written memo warning they were planning an attack on the anniversary of 9/11?

Can you provide a link concerning the 42 attacks in the area, which, I assume, you mean Benghazi and the surrounding area? And were these attacks on the scale of the one that killed the ambassador?

[flyboy56]

Can you provide a link concerning the 42 attacks in the area, which, I assume, you mean Benghazi and the surrounding area? And were these attacks on the scale of the one that killed the ambassador?

These attacks were enough to persuade the British Embassy to pull out of Benghazi not to mention the International Red Cross. You can research this yourself.

[flyboy56]

“An April 19, 2012, cable bearing Secretary Clinton’s signature acknowledged requests for additional security, but nevertheless ordered the withdrawal of security assets to proceed as planned,” the chairmen of five House committees wrote in a letter to Mr. Obama.

“Given the gravity of this issue, we request that you immediately make the April 19, 2012, State Department cable public.”


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...#ixzz2TTv1YjlH

I'm guessing the WH didn't release this e-mail.

[hst2]

These attacks were enough to persuade the British Embassy to pull out of Benghazi not to mention the International Red Cross. You can research this yourself.

Believe me, I've looked. I see nothing of that number of attacks in that area or any remotely of the scope of the 9/11 attack.

Stevens had a very personal connection to the area, one that he nurtured while there during war, and it would not have been enhanced had he returned with a large security entourage. I doubt the British felt such a connection.

[flyboy56]

Believe me, I've looked. I see nothing of that number of attacks in that area or any remotely of the scope of the 9/11 attack.

Stevens had a very personal connection to the area, one that he nurtured while there during war, and it would not have been enhanced had he returned with a large security entourage. I doubt the British felt such a connection.

Officials in Libya made repeated requests for more security and reported to headquarters that the situation was deteriorating in Benghazi. The British Embassy, the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross withdrew their personnel from Benghazi.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...#ixzz2TTvpVBEm

[sushilover]

"But if you read through all these e-mails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, 'Oh, let's not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let's not tell the public that there were warnings.' I hate to show, this is one of the documents with the editing that one of the people in the state department said, 'Oh, let's not let these things out.' And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, 'Oh, let's not tell this, let's not show this.' I would not dismiss Benghazi. It's a very serious issue. ..."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...te_724707.html

[sushilover]

Now all we need is for that buffoon Obama to come on "The View" and say: "I am not a crook, but I am working on my hook [shot] ..."

[sushilover]

Can't wait to see Barry and that cheap grifter Michelle frog-marched out of the White House ...