Tehon
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I can say there was no draw down very simply because there was none. That is not to say that there weren't security concerns and I can't say Stevens didn't request additional security but you're never gonna nail Hillary on this legally. She has already been cleared by both the House and the Senate intelligence committees. In fact the Senate report says that Stevens twice turned down offers from DoD General Carter Ham to provide security in the month prior to the attack.There was no draw down in the level of security. The line of thinking that says the compound was a legitimate consul and that it was not adequately protected draws attention from the fact that it was a clandestine operation, possibly (probably) illegal. You dupes are going to ensure that they get away with it. Condemning Clinton for poor security is a red herring. Wise up.I am fairly knowledgeable on the subject, I would dare say I know more about it than you and your right wing talking points. You can't intelligently contradict what I have said thus far. And it's not that I don't agree with you that Hillary should be exposed, I do, but I do so in order for the American people to get the truth of why the State Dept. had a secret compound and to expose what they were doing. Your partisan right wing talking points do not hold true to the facts and they tend to muddy the waters surrounding the whole plot. Your outrage at Hillary's part in the cover up of Stevens death tends to obscure the true nature of why Stevens was there in the first place. It is believed by some that he was aiding Al Qaeda and facilitating the shipment of Libyan arms to Syria. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.With that statement, Tehon...you've shown me that you really don't know anything at all about what took place before the attacks in Benghazi that night. Do yourself a favor and educate yourself on what you're discussing before you try and enter a conversation about it!
So you admit that there was a cover-up? If you admit that...then why are you accusing me of using "partisan right wing talking points"? All I've ever done is point out that the Clinton State Department did something that borders on criminal negligence when they drew down the level of security for our diplomats in Libya because they didn't want the wrong message being sent (the message being that things were getting worse in Libya...not better).
How can you say that there was no draw down in security when it's been well documented that there was? Chris Stevens sent numerous pleas to the State Department not to reduce his security detail...citing the increase in violent attacks on Western targets in Libya...including one the day before the attack came...and his requests were refused.
BTW neither report calls the mission compound a consulate.
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