Why did Stevens turn down more protection for Benghazi??

[AmericanFirst]

Report: Officials say Stevens turned down extra Benghazi security

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U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who died with three other Americans in last year’s attack in Benghazi, Libya, turned down offers of additional security from military personnel on two occasions, according to a report released late Tuesday from McClatchy newspapers.
The report cites two anonymous government officials who said “the senior U.S. military official in the region” twice approached Stevens with the offer, and Stevens twice declined. The report does not say why Stevens would have declined the offer.

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Why is FOX not covering this???

Sounds to me like "two annymous sources" means two obamaturd admin LIARS. Deflection doesn't protect your sorry leaders arse.

 

[AmericanFirst]

I don't see a conflict. Stevens did turn down security and cons voted against funding security.

Doesn't excuse obamaturd or hilbil. Deflection, again.

 

[Little-Acorn]

And from a CBS report.

The House Oversight Committee will begin questioning three senior State Department staff on Capitol Hill Wednesday over claims that dozens of U.S. security personnel were removed from Libya in the six months leading up to the attack, in spite of alleged requests to increase personnel levels from American officials on the ground.

According to one of the key witnesses expected to testify before the committee this week, even Ambassador Stevens himself had repeatedly requested more security personnel, but was turned down.

Lt. Col. Andy Wood, the former head of a U.S. Special Forces "Site Security Team" in Libya, has told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson that he and many other senior staff at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, "felt we needed more, not less" security personnel in the country, but were told "to do with less.

For what reasons, I don't know."

This begins to get at the real scandal in Benghazi.

What happened after the attacks, and who lied to whom and how, is less important that why security there was left to deteriorate for months, even while attacks were going on and Amb. Stevens was pleading for more security.

That summer, Obama was crowing over "Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive!". He was desperately trying to fool American voters into thinking he had defeated Al Qaeda and they were "on the run". And the increasing attacks by Al Qaeda were not fitting into the glossy image he was trying to project.

Sending MORE security into areas like Benghazi, Cairo etc. would have done even more harm to his story... so he simply didn't do it. Instead he reduced security, pulled out American agents, and in some cases substituted Libyan personnel for the American security troops. He was hoping this would look good to American voters who weren't paying much attention.

By the first week in September 2012, there were exactly three American security personnel at the consulate in Benghazi. The gate guards and patrols had been replaced by Libyans... and they were unarmed, with nothing but whistles and batons. And so, when the major attack came on Sept. 11, 2012, the people in the consulate didn't have much chance.

Basically, the lives of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans, were sacrificed so that Obama could get more votes three weeks later in the November, 2012 election.

And that is the real scandal of Benghazi. Obama hopes fervently that people will keep complaining about Susan Rice and stories of a video... because then they aren't complaining about what killed Amb. Stevens and three other Americans: Flagrant neglect of consulate security for the purpose of gaining votes.

 

[tinydancer]

And from a CBS report.

The House Oversight Committee will begin questioning three senior State Department staff on Capitol Hill Wednesday over claims that dozens of U.S. security personnel were removed from Libya in the six months leading up to the attack, in spite of alleged requests to increase personnel levels from American officials on the ground.

According to one of the key witnesses expected to testify before the committee this week, even Ambassador Stevens himself had repeatedly requested more security personnel, but was turned down.

Lt. Col. Andy Wood, the former head of a U.S. Special Forces "Site Security Team" in Libya, has told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson that he and many other senior staff at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, "felt we needed more, not less" security personnel in the country, but were told "to do with less.

For what reasons, I don't know."

This begins to get at the real scandal in Benghazi.

What happened after the attacks, and who lied to whom and how, is less important that why security there was left to deteriorate for months, even while attacks were going on and Amb. Stevens was pleading for more security.

That summer, Obama was crowing over "Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive!". He was desperately trying to fool American voters into thinking he had defeated Al Qaeda and they were "on the run". And the increasing attacks by Al Qaeda were not fitting into the glossy image he was trying to project.

Sending MORE security into areas like Benghazi, Cairo etc. would have done even more harm to his story... so he simply didn't do it. Instead he reduced security, pulled out American agents, and in some cases substituted Libyan personnel for the American security troops. He was hoping this would look good to American voters who weren't paying much attention.

By the first week in September 2012, there were exactly three American security personnel at the consulate in Benghazi. The gate guards and patrols had been replaced by Libyans... and they were unarmed, with nothing but whistles and batons. And so, when the major attack came on Sept. 11, 2012, the people in the consulate didn't have much chance.

Basically, the lives of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans, were sacrificed so that Obama could get more votes three weeks later in the November, 2012 election.

And that is the real scandal of Benghazi. Obama hopes fervently that people will keep complaining about Susan Rice and stories of a video... because then they aren't complaining about what killed Amb. Stevens and three other Americans: Flagrant neglect of consulate security for the purpose of gaining votes.

More whistleblowers are set to step forward apparently. I personally would love to know where the survivors of the Benghazi attack are and when are they going to be called to testify.

 

[Lakhota]

Why did Stevens turn down more protection for Benghazi??

I've heard several reports on this since the tragedy. It seems that he truly loved the Libyan people and never wanted it to seem he was fearful for his personal safety. He wanted to appear as one of them.

 

[tinydancer]

Why did Stevens turn down more protection for Benghazi??

I've heard several reports on this since the tragedy. It seems that he truly loved the Libyan people and never wanted it to seem he was fearful for his personal safety. He wanted to appear as one of them.

Prove it. Come on. Give us all your sources.

I can't wait for you to validate this claim.

 

[Lakhota]

Why did Stevens turn down more protection for Benghazi??

I've heard several reports on this since the tragedy. It seems that he truly loved the Libyan people and never wanted it to seem he was fearful for his personal safety. He wanted to appear as one of them.

Prove it. Come on. Give us all your sources.

I can't wait for you to validate this claim.

Stevens liked to go out into the street and talk to Libyans. He liked to mingle with them.

Google "ambassador stevens loved libyan people" and read for yourself.

 

[francoHFW]

It's a helluva lot more complicated than the dupes care to know (this, CIA base wanted low profile, video inflamed an area that was already chaotic and heavily armed). It's a tragedy, the Bush legacy will take years to fix. Just stfu and help make it difficult to happen again. What a bunch of loudmouth a-holes...

 

[francoHFW]

Dems tend to go along withPub presidents, hope for the best, then have an election- Pubs and dupes practice mindless obstruction and nonstop carping...I guess it's what happens when you have a propaganda machine that runs things and needs to make a buck AND keep the sheep in line and hopeless...

 

[Little-Acorn]

Ambassador Stevens pleaded again and again for MORE reinforcements, not less. Cables he had sent, with his own signature on them, are being examined now in Congress.

A few "anonymous" sources coming out eight months later and making vague accusations otherwise, don't hold much water.

.

 

[Lakhota]

Ambassador Stevens pleaded again and again for MORE reinforcements, not less. Cables he had sent, with his own signature on them, are being examined now in Congress.

A few "anonymous" sources coming out eight months later and making vague accusations otherwise, don't hold much water.

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We'll see... Who knows, maybe Stevens did request more protection near the end because of the anti-Muslim video. The facts will come out after all investigations are completed.

 

[francoHFW]

"pleaded", dupe? LOL Like every other one in the ME, no doubt....what a pile of bs from the PPM...

 

[tinydancer]

Ambassador Stevens pleaded again and again for MORE reinforcements, not less. Cables he had sent, with his own signature on them, are being examined now in Congress.

A few "anonymous" sources coming out eight months later and making vague accusations otherwise, don't hold much water.

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We'll see... Who knows, maybe Stevens did request more protection near the end because of the anti-Muslim video. The facts will come out after all investigations are completed.

The video? The video? The video that had nothing to do with the attack on the consulate?



So you don't think Stevens was asking for more security because of all the recent attacks in Benghazi?

Or that Stevens would have been a tad worried about security because leading up to the 9/11 attack the Consulate at Benghazi had been bombed twice?

And that the anniversary of 9/11 was coming?

Or that maybe Stevens wanted the extra security because a drone had killed Al Qaeda #2 a Libyan? You know and maybe AQ might seek revenge for his death?

 

[RKMBrown]

I heard they found Steven's refusal to accept additional security under Obama's original birth certificate.

 

[tinydancer]

I heard they found Steven's refusal to accept additional security under Obama's original birth certificate.

This original one?

 

[hazlnut]

a new liberal talking point

FAIL.

It's a fact that's been widely reported.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Report: Officials say Stevens turned down extra Benghazi security

Read more: Report: Officials say Stevens turned down extra Benghazi security - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
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U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who died with three other Americans in last year’s attack in Benghazi, Libya, turned down offers of additional security from military personnel on two occasions, according to a report released late Tuesday from McClatchy newspapers.
The report cites two anonymous government officials who said “the senior U.S. military official in the region” twice approached Stevens with the offer, and Stevens twice declined. The report does not say why Stevens would have declined the offer.

Read more: Report: Officials say Stevens turned down extra Benghazi security - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
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Why is FOX not covering this???

"anonymous government officials" = figments of liberal imagination.

I posted the timeline many times and it proves everything you stated to be false.

 

[jwoodie]

why did he send numerous requests to the state dept requesting security if he didn't think he needed more security?

This really is a new low. Stevens is dead and cannot speak for himself. So the liberal spin machine is abusing his reputation.

this^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Let me guess, Steven first refused help, then when he was pleading for his life, he couldn't get help because of Obama's Sequester, amiright?

 

[kwc57]

Benghazi was mainly a CIA base and they didn't want to call attention to it, or the MISSION. But carry on, dupes of the gigantic Pub Propaganda Machine and the cowardly, controversy mad corporate media. Bye bye journalism...

Yeah, that's why they have walls, gates, Marine guards and fly an American flag. You can put your head back up your ass now.