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Originally Posted by justplugit
Spence, to answer your making things up complaint:
Did not "Giggles" say at the VP debate the Administration was not told of the need for more security?
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The request was very specific, for an extension of a 16 person team based in Tripoli. My understanding is that the decision here is made at the deputy level, Clinton might not even have been aware of it.
I would assume that this would only go to the White House if it conflicted with already set policy or was deemed of grave importance. The request was denied as the policy was to continue to shift security to the Libyan government and limit US exposure.
People seem to be acting like Libya was going to blow up and Obama should have deployed a brigade of Marines.
That's really not the case. We're talking about a request for 16 people who wouldn't have been in a position to help defend the embassy staff even if they were approved.
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Was it not confirmed by the White House that Obama only
attended 50% of his daily security briefings and read the others?
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We've discussed this one to death. Obama has a different process than Bush did. That he's not always personally briefed doesn't mean he's now aware.
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As President of the United States and Commander in Chief his FIRST duty is to protect American citizens. He should have attended all the briefings to listen, have input, and question. Security briefing meetings are meant for just that, not speed reading after the fact. How are you doing your most important job if you only show up to 1/2 of your meetings? Your not.
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If the security issue never got beyond the deputies at State, how would having attended a briefing been any different than reading a brief?
The issue still wouldn't have been brought up and the same 4 Americans would have been killed.
-spence