Emails show state department rejected requests for increased Libya security

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[TigerClaws]

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.

[JustTheTruth]

With a plane, at least the initial survivors could have been evacuated rather than remaining sitting ducks in a nearby house for slaughter a few hours later.

[Signalman]

Romney should be all over in the next debate and putting out ads.

[freeangel]

Hilly and hussein need to be jailed for megligent homicide.

[freeangel]

Hilly and hussein need to be jailed for negligent homicide.

[Talisker]

...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.

A DC-3? In 2012? That's like denying a mule to pull their cart.

In a war zone.

While under attack.

Meanwhile Hillary uses a 767 to haul her fat ass from Washington to New York for a donut, and Jarrett is surrounded by an armored division while she gets drunk on Mai Tais on the Long Island shore, and the Census Bureau is ordering rocket launchers, a billion HP rounds and has a chit in for their own tactical nuke.

[American Constitutionalist]

So ? when was the supposed blocking of the funding of security was to have happen by the Republicans that Nancy Pelosi said happened ? timeline ?
Did she give any specifics of when the Republicans was to have blocked the funding ?

[Travis McGee]

THe most insane part of the situation is that the Quick Reaction Force for the consulate, in the event of an attack, was some Muslim Brotherhood militia called “The November 17th Martyrs Brigade” or something similar.

Yeah, great idea.

[TomGuy]

Romney should be all over in the next debate and putting out ads.

At the rate things foreign are disintegrating, the foreign policy debate (#3, IIRC) will be devastating for Obama.

As with the economy, he has little to crow about, except that he killed bin Laden.

[Pfesser]

Except he didn’t kill Bin Laden, or want 2, the seals killed him. It took Hillary and Panetta to get Prez O to give the order after 3 different meetings. And then , from the reports I’ve heard, Hillary told him he had no choice.

[Principled]

Romney should be all over in the next debate and putting out ads.

I agree that Romney should prepare the battlefield with some ads that put 0dumbo/biden on defense to start with.

[Henry Hnyellar]

A whole lot of nothing. The lack of a DC-3 is hardly the problem here.

[the anti-liberal]

"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."

August: Obama's State Dept Pulled Security Teams Out of Libya