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The republican Congress is partly to blame for cutting the security budget and overall budget to the State Dept. As a consequence of the republican congress not giving Obama what he requested security was in a state of flux with downsizing, shuffling personnel, etc.[-X While all repubs are blaming Obama, will they also lay the blame on the republican Congress? Nah....
Rep. Connolly: State Dept. Budget Cuts Partly to Blame for 9/11 Libya Attack
Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), in an interview with Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP on Monday, stood by comments he made that Congress deserves some of the blame for the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others because it failed to give President Obama all the money he had requested for embassy security – and had cut the State Department’s budget overall.
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Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va): Absolutely, Congress in the last few years, especially has consistently cut President Obama’s request for security for our embassies and consulates overseas. And it has also consistently cut the overall budget for the State Department, and I think that's a contributing factor to slowing down our ability to sort of harden and fortify embassies and other facilities abroad so they are as safe as they can be.
Wow!! The republicans syncopants on this forum are out to lunch and amazingly hypocritical!
Obama lied as they would have you believe but Congress holds no responsiblity. ONLY Obama!?? Amazing!
I know this will be met with non-answers and cutsie posters by the right but...
The CIA intercepted chatter about the attacks saying the attack was spontaneous based on the protests at the Cairo embassy which were about the offensive video.
Then somewhere in time after that, they intercepted some more chatter saying the attacks were planned by a local militia with al Qaeda's help.
Therefore, because of the lag between intercepts, the president was given incomplete information and it took some days for everything to be pieced together about the possible militia and al Qaeda connection.
I had posted a really long informational post about this when my internet went down and I lost everything. I will try to post links and more detail later but right now I have to deal with my ebay auctions which I also was in the process of posting and lost them all before getting them online! Grrrrrr...
But the bottom line is that is sounds pretty much like what I suspected. Lagging communication and intercepts. If people are objective they can see that and they should know that all intelligence information is incomplete and it has to be pieced together often over a period of time.
It WAS NOT deliberate lying!
And I trust Hillary completely!
I know now all her fans now don't like her and believe the propaganda the intelligence committee is putting out and their letters with questions that can't yet be answered.
In addition, like I posted above, the republican Congress cut $300 million from the State Dept.'s security budget so the State Dept. was in the process of re-shuffling personnel and re-assigning when this took place.
Now, I'd like State Dept. for $500, Alex!
Also:
American intelligence operatives also assisted State Department contractors and Libyan officials in tracking shoulder-fired missiles taken from the former arsenals of the former Libyan Col. Muammar el-Qaddafis forces; they aided in efforts to secure Libyas chemical weapons stockpiles; and they helped train Libyas new intelligence service, officials said.
The F.B.I. has sent investigators many from its New York field office to Benghazi, but they have been hampered by the citys tenuous security environment and the fact that they arrived more than a day after the attack occurred, according to senior American officials.
Complicating the investigation, the officials said, is that many of the Americans who were evacuated from Benghazi after the attack are now scattered across Europe and the United States. It is also unclear, one of the officials said, whether there was much forensic evidence that could be extracted from the scene of the attacks.
Boiking wants war...There's no other way to interpret the turn of events.So, we didn't want to send troops in right away, after the attack, to secure the scene, because we didn't have 'permission' of the Libyans. But we can retaliate now, well after the fact?
You are amazingly dense. It takes time to find the targets and gather all the information or would you prefer we had just sent a couple of nukes over that way to cover all bases? Yikes! You are unbelievable. And you're allowed to vote? Do you even have a clue about intelligence gathering? I suppose not since you don't have any.
Get the word out!! Twitter, Facebook and everywhere!
The republican Congress is partly to blame for cutting the security budget and overall budget to the State Dept. As a consequence of the republican congress not giving Obama what he requested security was in a state of flux with downsizing, shuffling personnel, etc.[-X While all repubs are blaming Obama, will they also lay the blame on the republican Congress? Nah....
Rep. Connolly: State Dept. Budget Cuts Partly to Blame for 9/11 Libya Attack
Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), in an interview with Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP on Monday, stood by comments he made that Congress deserves some of the blame for the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others because it failed to give President Obama all the money he had requested for embassy security and had cut the State Departments budget overall.
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Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va): Absolutely, Congress in the last few years, especially has consistently cut President Obamas request for security for our embassies and consulates overseas. And it has also consistently cut the overall budget for the State Department, and I think that's a contributing factor to slowing down our ability to sort of harden and fortify embassies and other facilities abroad so they are as safe as they can be.
Budgets cuts do not make terrorists attack us.
Terrorists are to blame for the attack on the embassy.
Boiking wants war...There's no other way to interpret the turn of events.So, we didn't want to send troops in right away, after the attack, to secure the scene, because we didn't have 'permission' of the Libyans. But we can retaliate now, well after the fact?
You are amazingly dense. It takes time to find the targets and gather all the information or would you prefer we had just sent a couple of nukes over that way to cover all bases? Yikes! You are unbelievable. And you're allowed to vote? Do you even have a clue about intelligence gathering? I suppose not since you don't have any.
Get the word out!! Twitter, Facebook and everywhere!
The republican Congress is partly to blame for cutting the security budget and overall budget to the State Dept. As a consequence of the republican congress not giving Obama what he requested security was in a state of flux with downsizing, shuffling personnel, etc.[-X While all repubs are blaming Obama, will they also lay the blame on the republican Congress? Nah....
Rep. Connolly: State Dept. Budget Cuts Partly to Blame for 9/11 Libya Attack
Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), in an interview with Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP on Monday, stood by comments he made that Congress deserves some of the blame for the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others because it failed to give President Obama all the money he had requested for embassy security and had cut the State Departments budget overall.
...
Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va): Absolutely, Congress in the last few years, especially has consistently cut President Obamas request for security for our embassies and consulates overseas. And it has also consistently cut the overall budget for the State Department, and I think that's a contributing factor to slowing down our ability to sort of harden and fortify embassies and other facilities abroad so they are as safe as they can be.
The Lamestream abc media
Budgets cuts do not make terrorists attack us.
Terrorists are to blame for the attack on the embassy.
Budgets cuts do not make terrorists attack us.
Terrorists are to blame for the attack on the embassy.
Of course not but the security was in a state of flux while a permanent embassy to house a larger contingent was found and becasue due to the budget cuts, the security was in a state of flux with personnel being reassigned and some laid off or sent to different agencies, etc. So the lack of security if that turns out to be the case is partly the republican Congress' fault. If they KNEW so much about the problem there then they should have told the state dept. they would somehow fund extra personnel there and elsewhere if needed!
Wow!! The republicans syncopants on this forum are out to lunch and amazingly hypocritical!
Obama lied as they would have you believe but Congress holds no responsiblity. ONLY Obama!?? Amazing!
I know this will be met with non-answers and cutsie posters by the right but...
The CIA intercepted chatter about the attacks saying the attack was spontaneous based on the protests at the Cairo embassy which were about the offensive video.
Then somewhere in time after that, they intercepted some more chatter saying the attacks were planned by a local militia with al Qaeda's help.
Therefore, because of the lag between intercepts, the president was given incomplete information and it took some days for everything to be pieced together about the possible militia and al Qaeda connection.
I had posted a really long informational post about this when my internet went down and I lost everything. I will try to post links and more detail later but right now I have to deal with my ebay auctions which I also was in the process of posting and lost them all before getting them online! Grrrrrr...
But the bottom line is that is sounds pretty much like what I suspected. Lagging communication and intercepts. If people are objective they can see that and they should know that all intelligence information is incomplete and it has to be pieced together often over a period of time.
It WAS NOT deliberate lying!
And I trust Hillary completely!
I know now all her fans now don't like her and believe the propaganda the intelligence committee is putting out and their letters with questions that can't yet be answered.
In addition, like I posted above, the republican Congress cut $300 million from the State Dept.'s security budget so the State Dept. was in the process of re-shuffling personnel and re-assigning when this took place.
Now, I'd like State Dept. for $500, Alex!
Also:
American intelligence operatives also assisted State Department contractors and Libyan officials in tracking shoulder-fired missiles taken from the former arsenals of the former Libyan Col. Muammar el-Qaddafis forces; they aided in efforts to secure Libyas chemical weapons stockpiles; and they helped train Libyas new intelligence service, officials said.
The F.B.I. has sent investigators many from its New York field office to Benghazi, but they have been hampered by the citys tenuous security environment and the fact that they arrived more than a day after the attack occurred, according to senior American officials.
Complicating the investigation, the officials said, is that many of the Americans who were evacuated from Benghazi after the attack are now scattered across Europe and the United States. It is also unclear, one of the officials said, whether there was much forensic evidence that could be extracted from the scene of the attacks.
Get the word out!! Twitter, Facebook and everywhere!
The republican Congress is partly to blame for cutting the security budget and overall budget to the State Dept. As a consequence of the republican congress not giving Obama what he requested security was in a state of flux with downsizing, shuffling personnel, etc.[-X While all repubs are blaming Obama, will they also lay the blame on the republican Congress? Nah....
Rep. Connolly: State Dept. Budget Cuts Partly to Blame for 9/11 Libya Attack
Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), in an interview with Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP on Monday, stood by comments he made that Congress deserves some of the blame for the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others because it failed to give President Obama all the money he had requested for embassy security and had cut the State Departments budget overall.
...
Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va): Absolutely, Congress in the last few years, especially has consistently cut President Obamas request for security for our embassies and consulates overseas. And it has also consistently cut the overall budget for the State Department, and I think that's a contributing factor to slowing down our ability to sort of harden and fortify embassies and other facilities abroad so they are as safe as they can be.
It was a tragedy that shameless Pubs are trying to get mileage out of. The worst kind of Monday morning quarterbacking...No lies.
It was a tragedy that shameless Pubs are trying to get mileage out of. The worst kind of Monday morning quarterbacking...No lies.
But somehow it was different when Democrats were asking what they knew, and when they knew it, after 9/11 right.
No Lies, you are a pathetic Partisan Hack.
It was a tragedy that shameless Pubs are trying to get mileage out of. The worst kind of Monday morning quarterbacking...No lies.
But somehow it was different when Democrats were asking what they knew, and when they knew it, after 9/11 right.
No Lies, you are a pathetic Partisan Hack.
And that terror attack could plausibly be blamed on Clinton and his refusal to do anything for all the attacks commited during his administration.
I am getting sick of liberal assholes refusing to hold Obama to task for ANYTHING!!
But somehow it was different when Democrats were asking what they knew, and when they knew it, after 9/11 right.
No Lies, you are a pathetic Partisan Hack.
And that terror attack could plausibly be blamed on Clinton and his refusal to do anything for all the attacks commited during his administration.
I am getting sick of liberal assholes refusing to hold Obama to task for ANYTHING!!
They never will.
Boiking wants war...There's no other way to interpret the turn of events.
You are amazingly dense. It takes time to find the targets and gather all the information or would you prefer we had just sent a couple of nukes over that way to cover all bases? Yikes! You are unbelievable. And you're allowed to vote? Do you even have a clue about intelligence gathering? I suppose not since you don't have any.
Why are conservatives and republicans the ones that are dense?
We are not defending a regime that got 4 brave men killed and is covering up the facts for an election.
You really should be ashamed of defending this regime.
I thought you to be an intelligent lady.
You are better than this my friend.... You might not like Romney, but my God why are you stooping this low to defend the indefensible??
