It's OK to expose the US allies in the region?
Amazing!
Isn't one of the Republican talking points about Obama's alienation of allies?
Now it's actually OK to put individuals' lives in danger to score political points?
Why would anyone trust the US?
You're such a ******* hack;
{Rep. Cummings, Sen. Kerry, and administration officials are attempting to create a distraction to protect the President and mislead the American people. Their charges are not credible and they appear to be calling from the same playbook they used against CNN when that network first revealed Ambassador Stevens' concerns.
The documents Rep. Cummings, Sen. Kerry, and the State Department are now complaining about were given to State Department officials, Rep. Cummings, and others almost two weeks ago. That Cummings and State Department officials did not express specific concerns about Libyans mentioned in these unclassified documents obtained by the committee until three days before the Presidential debate on foreign policy is telling. The committee only began hearing, through a reporter, concerns of anonymous Obama Administration officials last night and the State Department has yet to directly contact the committee with any requests for specific redactions to documents it knew the committee possessed. If the State Department's concerns were genuine, it certainly begs the question about why they did not raise concerns at the time they were originally released almost two weeks ago instead of waiting until a number of these documents were sent to President Obama on Friday along with questions about the White House role in the disastrous Libya 'normalization' policy.
There are also legitimate questions that have been examined by other news organizations about the harm created by State Department officials highlighting a sensitive site on a poster board during a public forum and the administration's failure to secure sensitive documents for weeks after the Benghazi attack.
The committee did make a number of redactions to these unclassified documents and the Libyan individuals mentioned in them worked in positions where their interactions with westerners would not be surprising.
The only position on documents the State Department has expressed to the committee is their belief that the committee should not have or release any information contained in any State Department documents. This non-cooperation has made the Committee's efforts more challenging and only through non-official channels was the Committee able to expose security failure that led to an acknowledgement of legitimate problems by Secretary Clinton.}
John Kerry: Darrell Issa's Release Of Raw Libya Cables 'Irresponsible And Inexcusable'
