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Email Shows State Department Rejecting Request of Security Team at US Embassy in Libya
ABC News has obtained an internal State Department email from May 3, 2012, indicating that the State Department denied a request from the security team at the Embassy of Libya to retain a DC-3 airplane in the country to better conduct their duties.
Copied on the email was U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in a terrorist attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012, along with three other Americans. That attack has prompted questions about whether the diplomatic personnel in that country were provided with adequate security support.
No one has yet to argue that the DC-3 would have definitively made a difference for the four Americans killed that night. The security team in question, after all, left Libya in August.
But the question – both for the State Department, which is conducting an internal investigation, and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is holding hearings next week – is whether officials in Washington, D.C., specifically at the State Department, were as aware as they should have been about the deteriorating security situation in Libya, and whether officials were doing everything they could to protect Americans in that country.
Earlier this week, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and another member of the committee wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listing 13 incidents leading up to the attack, ranging from IED and RPG attacks to a “posting on a pro-Gaddafi Facebook page” publicizing early morning runs taken by the late Ambassador Stevens and his security detail around Tripoli.
“Was State Department headquarters in Washington aware of all the above incidents?” they asked Secretary Clinton, requesting written responses by Oct. 8. “If not, why not? If so, what measures did the State Department take to match the level of security provided to the U.S. Mission in Libya to the level of threat?”
The subject line of the email, from Miki Rankin, the post management officer for Libya and Saudi Arabia, reads “Termination of Tripoli DC-3 Support.”
Rankin informs Stevens and the others on the email, whose names have been redacted, that Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy “has determined that support for Embassy Tripoli using the DC-3 will be terminated immediately. Post’s request to continue use of the plane in support of the SST was considered. However, it was decided that, if needed, NEA will charter a special flight for their departure.”
Carlos The Jackal
October 7th, 2012
If we had any kind of real leadership, this would be a “Remember The Alamo” moment, a rally where we push back in a way that will make them think twice about pulling shit in the future. Instead, again, the opportunity lost is being swept under the rug.
serfer52
October 7th, 2012
The Clintons & Kennedys steering the SS Fiasco onto the shoals of incompetense BUT blessed with privelge again!!!
Billy Fuster
October 7th, 2012
Does anyone know if Chris Stevens was a log cabin republican?
Edith McCrotch
October 7th, 2012
The last lucrative deal for Michelle and Barry…
Selling presidential pardons at $100,000.00 a pop.
Buffalobob
October 7th, 2012
Hillary, too busy ogling boobies.
xthred
October 7th, 2012
So, in this case, 9/11 was an inside job?
dba_vagabond_trader
October 7th, 2012
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2012/10/spooks-in-the-machine-speak-up/
Death_By_Farts
October 7th, 2012
Notice the Absence of Hillary lately? Since she’s no doubt preparing to run in 2016, we haven’t heard hide nor hair of the cuntstink in over 2 weeks.
Unneutral
October 7th, 2012
You need to consider how many iphones can be distributed to the 47% when you reduce security to our ambassadors.
Tailwind
October 7th, 2012
This is Hillary’s “Baby Ruth in the punch bowl”. I am surprised Team Obummer hasn’t already thrown her under the bus…..so the real question is: why hasn’t Valerie Jarrett already gutted Hillary? Interesting, no?
Mz McHorsey
October 8th, 2012
As ole stinky cnut Hillary and her worthless cigar fiddler wid da cnuts hubby Slick Willie continue to lay low….we will remember!!… if that bull dyke tries to run in 2016, all hell will break loose about her…. Willie will be too far along into dementia to help her… Dimmos down for the count as far as the eye can see…..gotta love it. Moochie and the Fairy Queen deep in Leavenworth somewhere, counting rats on the floor….