SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 State Department Briefing:
QUESTION: Can you talk a little bit more about the security that was at the Embassy? It seems that for an area such as Benghazi, where there was a lot of instability, there were very few guards there. And can you talk about whether the U.S. asked Libya, the Libyan Government, earlier in the week for extra security precaution. It does seem though that there were very few security personnel at this location.
MS. NULAND: I’m going to reject that, Elise. Let me tell you what I can about the security at our mission in Benghazi. It did include a local Libyan guard force around the outer perimeter. This is the way we work in all of our missions all around the world, that the outer perimeter is the responsibility of the host government. There was obviously a physical perimeter barrier, a wall. And then there was a robust American security presence inside the compound. This is absolutely consistent with what we have done at a number of missions similar to Benghazi around the world.
Just last night I listened to a report from a guy that blew the lid off the facts concerning the security detail at the Steven’s safe house.
Those two guys were not assigned there. When they heard Stevens was in trouble, they went over from the other Libya location, and tried to help. Evidently they did get a number of people out. Sadly their lives ended there with the Ambassador and one other staff member.
If the public knew this... OMG would there be a real s-storm.
I hadn’t heard this before. Perhaps others have.
It’s only time before all this comes out. And when it does, Obama will be walking and carrying his own golf clubs for the rest of his life.
You almost expect to see him in Las Vegas busting into a room armed, reclaiming some of his former belongings at some point.