Posted on 10/11/2012 2:49:03 PM PDT by maggief
Does anybody else find it kind of fazing that House Democrats really tried to blame Republican budget cuts for the inadequate security situation in Libya? Because, as Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) pointed out in the Washington Times yesterday, it doesn’t look like the State Department is exactly down to bare bones on their budget allocations — they just have particular priorities about where to spend their money.
In a May 3, 2012, email, the State Department denied a request by a group of Special Forces assigned to protect the U.S. embassy in Libya to continue their use of a DC- 3 airplane for security operations throughout the country. …
Four days later, on May 7, the State Department authorized the U.S. embassy in Vienna to purchase a $108,000 electric vehicle charging station for the embassy motor pool’s new Chevrolet Volts. The purchase was a part of the State Department’s “Energy Efficiency Sweep of Europe” initiative, which included hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on green program expenditures at various U.S. Embassies.
In fact, at a May 10 gala held at the U.S. embassy in Vienna, the ambassador showcased his new Volts and other green investments as part of the U.S. government’s commitment to “climate change solutions.”
While the embassy in Vienna was going green, the consulate in Benghazi was getting bombed, and little was done to stop it.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Actually, nothing was done to stop the bombing of the Benghazi consulate.
There was merely a disorganized retreat under fire. Nobody tried to stop anything except getting killed.
Since no budgets have been passed in years, the government operates under baseline budgeting and continuing resolutions. Therefore, there have been no cuts.
And, if Volts are on the embassy budget, there's clearly a lot of fat before you have to touch security.
You know they’re going to play this as CIA national security - the ONLY people who can “KNOW” are AlQuaeda... the SECRET must be kept from the American people.... everyone else knows...
Time to give Big Bird an M-16 and send him out to protect our embassies.
They won’t dare mess with Big Bird.
Time to give Big Bird an M-16 and send him out to protect our embassies.
Yes right, Big Bird has Obama 6. LOL!
Obamas daughter had more security at her birthday than the Ambassador to Libya.
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