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Originally Posted by spence
I've never seen any reporting that indicates Biden or Obama were aware of any security requests. Even in the investigation it appears the issue never got past the State Department.
Additionally, it appears that the additional security that was requested was actually for Tripoli and not even at the embassy.
The size of the requests don't appear to have been large enough to have stopped the attack regardless.
An interesting element here that appears to be under reported is that the Libyan government doesn't want a big American footprint on their soil. They've prohibited the use of private contractors and the State employees have to rely on their private security teams and the Libyan military for protection.
Conflating the real situation with a talking point about Obama not attending briefings doesn't help either....
Because you're making it up.
-spence
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"I've never seen any reporting that indicates Biden or Obama were aware of any security requests. Even in the investigation it appears the issue never got past the State Department."
Spence, in the aftefrmath of Hurricane Katrina, remember how everyone blamed Bush for the slow federal response? Well, I bet none o fthe people at the Superdome called Bush personally. Yet somehow people felt justified in blaming Bush, and they were obviously correct to do so. The buck truly does stop with Obama/Biden.
Along the same lines, Obama wasn't with Seal Team 6 when they killed Bin Laden, but Obama likes to take credit for that.
You want to give Obama credit for every good thing that happens, and no blame for the bad things. Can't have it both ways.
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