Issa to Hillary: Why did State refuse requests to bolster Benghazi security?

[Valin]

Hot Air:

Ed Morrissey

10/2/12

 

The Right Scoop calls this a “bombshell,” which may underestimate the impact of the question posed by House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Despite the CNN discovery of the late Ambassador Chris Stevens’ journal in which Stevens outlined his fears of terrorist attacks, the Obama administration has told the media that Stevens didn’t push those security issues with the State Department. According to the letter Issa sent today to Clinton, that may be yet another untruth pushed by the White House:

 

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According to Issa’s sources, though, the US embassy in Libya had become very worried about security — and for good reason. Far from just one or two attacks in the months prior to the sacking of the consulate in Benghazi that have been reported by the media, Issa outlines a string of incidents starting in April that demonstrated a deterioration in the security situation in Libya, and particularly in Benghazi. They include RPG attacks on a Red Cross office one kilometer from the American consulate, harassment of American diplomatic personnel by militia, the abduction and beating of the deputy commander of the local Libyan security force for the US Embassy in Tripoli, the attempted carjacking of a vehicle with American diplomatic plates, and more.

 

Furthermore, terrorists had posted pictures of Ambassador Stevens going for a routine morning jog and threatening to abduct or kill him. The Libyan security guards in the Benghazi consulate had been receiving warnings for weeks before the attack to quit, as an attack was planned for the facility. According to Issa, the embassy asked for heightened security for their diplomatic missions — and got nothing but static in response.

 

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[clearvision]

Does he have the emails or letters for these requests? Not going to get far with "sources".

[cudjo]

Hope he's smart enough to have positive proof that can be seen

[Valin]

Does he have the emails or letters for these requests? Not going to get far with "sources".

 

Hope he's smart enough to have positive proof that can be seen

 

 

There was a bi-partisan letter sent by the Senate the other day to the WH about this.

 

Don't know if this helps much, but, They may just be incompetent.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Robert J. Hanlon

[clearvision]

Although I like that Issa goes after things, and is in general a pain for the Dems, I don't think he actually gets real change/punishment done. Maybe just an impression without doing alot of research.