Investigators find State Department drew down Libya security as threats rose

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Investigators find State Department drew down Libya security as threats rose

State reduced number of mobile security teams by two thirds in Libya in months before ambassador killed in Benghazi
 
UPDATED 22:21 PM EST, January 22, 2013 | BY John Solomon


Why It Matters:
 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes a farewell appearance before Congress to address questions about the Benghazi terror attack last Sept. 11, and likely will be confronted by the very warning her ambassador from Libya sent just hours before his death as well as the decision of her department to draw down, rather than increase, security inside the volatile country.

Congressional investigators have pieced together a series of decisions that led State Department officials to inexplicably draw down security in Libya last year even as threats and attacks against Western diplomats were rising in the violent, chaotic city of Benghazi where America’s ambassador was killed last Sept. 11.

The investigators have determined that between May and September, the department reduced the number of Mobile Security Deployment teams from three to one, thinning the potential U.S. security officers available to protect diplomats by at least twelve, the Washington Guardian has learned.

In addition, the lone remaining six-member Mobile Security Team in Libya at the time Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed was detailed primarily to training Libyan security officials rather than providing force protection to U.S. officials, the sources told the Washington Guardian.

The two-thirds reduction in the number of special six-member security teams came in addition to decisions by the administration not to place a Marine security contingent at the main embassy in Tripoli and to send home in August a special military attachment that was also providing security for U.S. officials in Libya, the sources said, speaking only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the specifics of the department’s security planning.

Your safety means nothing to this administration 

[wasp69]

Obinga's team is doing a pretty good job of firewalling themselves from this fallout, aren't they?  Looks like Hillary is going to be the only one to really go up in flames over this.

Unless she suddenly remembers where the bodies are buried, that is.

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She's capable of almost anything. Remember - Blow Job Billy wants another shot at running the White House, even as 1st husband.

[txradioguy]

Your safety means nothing to this administration 

Nope...with Libs it's ALWAYS style over substance.