[rainee]

You can’t even get through to Gowdy’s office to complain.
I thought we were going to have a fact finding hearing and instead we are getting a hearing on how to improve the process.

**Yep, & “best practices”..

[kabar]

Process is important to lay the foundation for what happened. One thing that has been yet to be said is that the cardinal rule for stationing our people abroad should be that no American should be at a post unless we are assured that the host government can defend us. Ultimately, the host government is responsible for the security of our people.

We know that the post communicated to the Department that they could not depend on the host government for protection. That alone should have mandated the closure of the post.