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Originally Posted by spence
Perhaps, but I don't believe there was ever a request for this. The only I'm aware of was to extend a 16 member security team based in Tripoli. At best this may have added one or two members to the team in Benghazi I'd assume with only light arms.
With your field experience do you think this would have made a substantial difference against a much larger force (estimated at 125 men) with heavier weapons in an unhardened building?
Obama has said it was a screw up, but there's a big difference between a screw up and a cover up.
-spence
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Spence, the guy in charge of state department security in the Mideast, said that 2 teams (either 12 or 14 guys each) were removed from the Bengazi embassy, AGAINST HIS WISHES.
24 extra trained Americans, compared to the 2 SEALs who were there?
I'm not into predicting things on a 'what if' basis. But there is an enormous difference between 2 defenders and 26 defenders.