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The panel also said American intelligence officials had relied too much on specific warnings of imminent attacks, which they did not have in the case of Benghazi, rather than basing assessments more broadly on a deteriorating security environment. By this spring, Benghazi, a hotbed of militant activity in eastern Libya, had experienced a string of assassinations, an attack on a British envoys motorcade and the explosion of a bomb outside the American Mission.
Finally, the report blamed two major State Department bureaus Diplomatic Security and Near Eastern Affairs for failing to coordinate and plan adequate security. The panel also determined that a number of officials had shown poor leadership, but they were not identified in the unclassified version of the report that was released.
Systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus, the report said, resulted in security that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place.
The attack in Benghazi and the Obama administrations explanation of what happened and who was responsible became politically charged issues in the waning weeks of the presidential campaign, and Republicans have continued to demand explanations since then. Susan E. Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, took herself out of consideration for secretary of state after Republican criticism of comments she made in the aftermath of the lethal attack threatened to become a divisive political battle.
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While the report focused on the specific attack in Benghazi, the episode cast into broader relief the larger question of how American diplomats and intelligence officers operate in increasingly unstable environments, like those in the Arab Spring countries across North Africa and the Middle East, without increased security.
In response to the panels findings, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a letter to Congress that she was accepting all 29 of the panels recommendations, five of which are classified. To fully honor those we lost, we must better protect those still serving to advance our nations vital interests and values overseas, Mrs. Clinton said in the letter. She is already taking specific steps to correct the problems, according to officials.
They say the State Department is asking permission from Congress to transfer more than $1.3 billion from contingency funds that had been allocated for spending in Iraq. This includes $553 million for hundreds of additional Marine security guards worldwide; $130 million for diplomatic security personnel; and $691 million for improving security at installations abroad.
Noting that the Libyan militias in Benghazi proved unreliable, the report recommended that in the future the United States must be self-reliant and enterprising.
In recent weeks, teams of State Department and Pentagon security specialists have been sent to 19 high threat diplomatic posts around the world to conduct assessments.
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Ambassador Stevens had e-mailed his superiors in Washington in August alerting them to a security vacuum in the city. But the report found that in planning his trip there in September, he did not foresee that the compound could come under such a sustained attack, which included mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, despite the worsening security situation.
His status as the leading U.S. government advocate on Libya policy, and his expertise on Benghazi in particular, caused Washington to give unusual deference to his judgments, it said.
Mr. Stevens was making his first visit to Benghazi in 10 months. But his plans for taking only two American security agents were not shared thoroughly with the embassys country team, who were not fully aware of the planned movements off the compound, the report determined.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/u...al-of-state-department.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1
Well I thought this would open up some interesting discussion. Instead..there are threads critical of the report.
Guess what conservatives were really looking for, was a road to impeachment and could care less about the lives lost.
Well I thought this would open up some interesting discussion. Instead..there are threads critical of the report.
Guess what conservatives were really looking for, was a road to impeachment and could care less about the lives lost.
Done discussing this with you assholes... You libtards do not give a shit who let them folks die that night... You don't even care to know where Obama was and what role he played it either.
WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT ON 9-11-12..????
So STFU Sallow... You don't care why those four men died!!!
Well..seems that there is little interest in getting to the "truth" around here..
Well I thought this would open up some interesting discussion. Instead..there are threads critical of the report.
Guess what conservatives were really looking for, was a road to impeachment and could care less about the lives lost.
Done discussing this with you assholes... You libtards do not give a shit who let them folks die that night... You don't even care to know where Obama was and what role he played it either.
WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT ON 9-11-12..????
So STFU Sallow... You don't care why those four men died!!!
Like I said.
Well..seems that there is little interest in getting to the "truth" around here..
Maybe we should pass new gun laws for terrorists.
Done discussing this with you assholes... You libtards do not give a shit who let them folks die that night... You don't even care to know where Obama was and what role he played it either.
WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT ON 9-11-12..????
So STFU Sallow... You don't care why those four men died!!!
Like I said.
Thanks for proving me right ya jerk.
Pretty easy to see really.
The consulate asked for additional security and were denied.
The consulate was attacked and four good men were killed, one of them the ambassador.
I doubt anyone in the State Department, Hilary included, gives a rats ass about those men. If they had cared the requests for additional security would have been granted and those men would be alive today.
They are merely collateral damage due to the failure of Barry's State Department.
Pretty easy to see really.
The consulate asked for additional security and were denied.
The consulate was attacked and four good men were killed, one of them the ambassador.
I doubt anyone in the State Department, Hilary included, gives a rats ass about those men. If they had cared the requests for additional security would have been granted and those men would be alive today.
They are merely collateral damage due to the failure of Barry's State Department.
Well..
Seems there was no "Spending" available..because folks like you don't like "Spending".
Not "Spending" costs lives.
Are you ready to remedy that?
Or do you think we should no longer have embassies and consulates.
Which is it?
Right about what?
The right wing cares nothing..and I mean absolutely nothing for human life.
They do care about power.
So when the opportunity comes up to use lives to gain power.
They do it.
