State Dept. hired small British firm with no experience to protect Benghazi consulate. Then the manager of the contract flew out of Libya hours before the attack, leaving his employess with nothing but tasers and handcuffs to defend themselves. Something stinks in the Clinton world again and this time it’s not Bill’s cigar collection.
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We hired a small-minded community agitator with no experience to defend our whole country. Look how THAT turned out.
Our ambassdor to Libya and three other Americans were murdered by terrorists because the United States government outsourced the protection of the American embassy in Libya to an inexperienced and incompetent British firm, that, in turn, outsourced it to even more inexperienced and incompetent Libyan civilians.
A complete and utter disgrace on the part of our government. People who can fund Big Bird can't fund adequate protection for its citizens working for the government abroad. These lying, heartless people need to be turned out of office come November.
...and some belong in jail.
So barry can count this among the messes he made for Romney to clean up after his ineptness. Mark my words, the hildabeast will roll out more about this disaster in Libya and put it right at der leaders feet. Billary is not going to go silently and they sure as hell are not gone to let her take the blame for those who lost their lives.
You can count on one thing, no matter how bad a situation Romney inherits, on January 22, 2013, you will be hearing Dems saying that Obama isn't President any more, you can't blame this on him. Yet, somehow, it will still be Bush's fault.
So Bill consents to screwing one hole and Hillary by default causes the Ambassador to be screwed in the other. They both went up in flames, as this country will also if we don't replace the Screwball in Chief.
"... just five unarmed locally hired Libyans were placed on duty at the compound on eight-hour shifts..."
Wonder whose crony this "small British firm" belonged to?
That's one type of suspicion. My mind is going in another direction: it sounds like somebody WANTED this to happen and set it up so it would. Hire inexperienced security, don't arm the guards, refuse the ambassador's requests for additional security, rebuff experienced security firms who want the contract, and then make sure the non-Libyan Brit in charge of this sham (who I assume is in on the conspiracy) skips out of the country right before the attack.
"... non-Libyan Brit in charge of this sham (who I assume is in on the conspiracy) skips out of the country right before the attack."
You're a better researcher than I am, what's his name and where is he now? I understand there's serious tension between Brit troops and ours in the ME, but still
You search straight-on, I go sideways, got a link?
It's in the linked story:
"Darryl Davies, the manager of the Benghazi contract for Blue Mountain, flew out of the city hours before the attack was launched. The Daily Telegraph has learned that relations between the firm and its Libyan partner had broken down, leading to the withdrawal of Mr Davies.
"Abdulaziz Majbiri, a Blue Mountain guard at the compound, told the Daily Telegraph that they were effectively abandoned and incapable of defending themselves on the night of the attack."
Sorry, caught that, weaseling to see if you had more. Tried.