A report issued tomorrow on Benghazi situation?

[CoffeeCat]

I'm working with MSNBC on in the background, and this is what I heard.

There was a Republican Congressman talking with Andrea Mitchell. He said that tomorrow a report will be issued, that will most likely reveal that the Obama Administration received requests by personnel in Benghazi, to increase their security--but that request was denied.

Is this true? Please tell me that I didn't hear correctly or that there is more to this story. This was a Republican politician commenting, so he could have been spinning it against the President.

If this is true, it would be horrible going into the next debates.

Did anyone else hear this exchange between the Republican politician and Andrea Mitchell?

[hrmjustin]

1. yes they have documents that prove that they asked for more security.

[demwing]

2. fuck

at a loss

[hrmjustin]

3. The gop voted to cut funding for security for our embassies.

They know who denied the request. It was an undersecretary of the state dept. They did make some improvements to the embassy, but he did not die in the embassy.

[CoffeeCat]

5. Thanks for replying...

So, the Congressional GOPers voted to cut security funding for our embassies??? Why would they vote to do such a thing? Was this a bill introduced by Republicans? Was this a bill that ended up passing?

That's very bizarre.

So, then an "undersecretary of the state dept" denied the request for more funding for security?

That's a good point that Stevens did not die at the embassy. However, it's a point of fact (like many facts) that may be lost in this very emotional situation.

I appreciate your input.

I'll look for more info and post as I find it.

[leveymg]

4. Report is by GOP controlled House Committee. It is true, however, that security detail was cut

earlier in the year after it was perceived the threat level had declined in Libya. In itself, that shouldn't be so surprising, given that there is a transitional government in place in Tripoli. Eastern Libya, however, is still the Wild West of feuding Jihadi and Salafist militant groups, many of which have been sending foreign fighters and weapons to wage war on Syria with Benghazi the jumping off point for Jihad.

It was Amb. Stevens' own decision to return to the consulate in Benghazi, despite his own recent misgivings about threats from various militant groups, as has been widely reported.

There's a much more important back story which has not yet been widely picked up on in Washington or by the corporate media. That's the rising worries that many of the 15,000 or so Libyan surface to air missiles that were looted after the overthrow of Gadhaffi and were never recovered are now in the hands of al-Qaeda and related groups. One of the security officers killed with the Ambassador was assigned to the task of locating and recovering or destroying the SAMs, only one-in-four of which have been accounted for. The US coordinated the regime change operation despite being well aware of the proliferation risk. The implications of that are truly staggering.