(08-21-2015 04:52 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-21-2015 04:08 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(08-21-2015 04:02 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-21-2015 03:57 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Gee...maybe because protecting American assets all over the globe is sorta hard work?
Sometimes the bad guys win...of course when Trump gets in there, something like this could never ever happen again.

And it's somebody's job to do that hard work. And when they don't, they should fry.

Right...if only we would have implemented that full-proof plan of removing Stevens from the country, he'd surely be alive today.

It's quite easy to Monday morning QB isn't it?

BTW - Who'd we fry for 9/11? For the USS Cole?

Well if Hillary had implemented the recommendations of her staff, then yes, he would be alive.

(08-22-2015 12:11 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(08-21-2015 04:52 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-21-2015 04:08 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(08-21-2015 04:02 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-21-2015 03:57 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Gee...maybe because protecting American assets all over the globe is sorta hard work?
Sometimes the bad guys win...of course when Trump gets in there, something like this could never ever happen again.

And it's somebody's job to do that hard work. And when they don't, they should fry.

Right...if only we would have implemented that full-proof plan of removing Stevens from the country, he'd surely be alive today.

It's quite easy to Monday morning QB isn't it?

BTW - Who'd we fry for 9/11? For the USS Cole?

Well if Hillary had implemented the recommendations of her staff, then yes, he would be alive.

Do you have a link for that?

Quote:The State Department acknowledged Wednesday that it rejected appeals for more security at its diplomatic posts in Libya in the months before a fatal terrorist attack in Benghazi as Republicans suggested that lapses contributed to the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Quote:Security officials on the ground “repeatedly warned Washington officials of the dangerous situation” in Libya, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in his opening statement. “Washington officials seemed preoccupied with the concept of normalization.”

Quote:Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb, who helps oversee diplomatic security, fumbled to explain how the requests were evaluated. But she said there was the right level of protection in Benghazi the night of Sept. 11.

Republicans pounced, saying the deaths of four Americans proved that there was not enough security on hand.

White House spokesman Jay Carney seemed to agree, telling reporters later Wednesday that in hindsight “there is no question that the security was not enough to prevent that tragedy from happening.”

Quote:Lamb said she opposed a request to extend the term of a special supplemental security team comprising mostly military personnel that had assisted Stevens and other diplomats from February until August. The team was based in Tripoli and “would not have made any difference in Benghazi,” Lamb said.

Under tense questioning, she acknowledged that she had told the top security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, not to bother asking for additional help when the military team was sent home.

Quote:That officer, Eric A. Nordstrom, was sitting uncomfortably beside her at the hearing. Nordstrom said he interpreted Lamb’s refusal as “there was going to be too much political cost.” But in his written statement, he acknowledged that the “ferocity and intensity of the attack was nothing that we had seen in Libya, or that I had seen in my time in the Diplomatic Security Service. Having an extra foot of wall, or an extra-half dozen guards or agents would not have enabled us to respond to that kind of assault.”


Nordstrom sounded a forlorn note when he said, “The takeaway from that, for me and my staff: It was abundantly clear we were not going to get resources until the aftermath of an incident. And the question that we would ask is, again, ‘How thin does the ice have to get before someone falls through?’ ”