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What total bullshit! That excuse that was floated by Democrats has been roundly discredited for years now. Right from the start, Charlene Lamb, the woman in charge of security for that area said that those budget cuts had ZERO to do with the level of security in Benghazi and that they had just as many security personnel in Libya as the State Department felt necessary. Hillary Clinton made the call to rely on "local security" instead of Americans because she didn't want it to appear that we didn't "trust" the locals.
House Republicans cut the administration's request for embassy security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal 2012.
Breaking It Turns Out That Protecting Our Embassies Costs Money Mother Jones