Bombshell: Benghazi Security Was Cut… by Over 70%
Bombshell: Benghazi Security Was Cut… by Over 70%
More and more details are coming to light about the Obama Administration’s heinous coverup of Benghazi. The members of the mainstream media are just hoping this thing blows over, because the evidence we’re continuing to discover of Obama and Hillary’s negligence is damning.
Four Americans are dead after what an official Senate report called a “preventable” attack. Ambassador Stevens’s requests for more security were ignored, and the report places the blame on the State Department for failing to ignore the requests.
The media, desperate to cover for Obama and Hillary, has come out and actually blamed Ambassador Stevens for the attack. Greg Hicks, who was Stevens’s second in command at Benghazi, has come out in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal to defend the ambassador “since Chris cannot speak”. He confirms that Washington actually cut security at Benghazi by 70% shortly before the attack.
TheBlaze writes:
“Chris Stevens was not responsible for the reduction in security personnel,” Gregory Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Thursday. “His requests for additional security were denied or ignored. Officials at the State and Defense Departments in Washington made the decisions that resulted in reduced security.” [...]
While Republicans have said that should extend to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, some media commentators have clung to a portion of the report that states Stevens declined an offer from then-Africa Commander Gen. Carter Ham for increased security.
“Since Chris cannot speak, I want to explain the reasons and timing for his responses to Gen. Ham,” Hicks wrote, explaining that much of the matter revolved around when to shift command of U.S. Special Forces from the State Department – where soldiers had diplomatic immunity – to the Defense Department – where they would not.
“Chris had requested on July 9 by cable that Washington provide a minimum of 13 American security professionals for Libya over and above the diplomatic security complement of eight assigned to Tripoli and Benghazi,” Hicks wrote. “On July 11, the Defense Department, apparently in response to Chris’s request, offered to extend the special forces mission to protect the U.S. Embassy.”
“However, on July 13, State Department Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy refused the Defense Department offer and thus Chris’s July 9 request. His rationale was that Libyan guards would be hired to take over this responsibility,” Hicks continued.
Diplomatic immunity was a serious consideration, Hicks explained in the op-ed.
“[Stevens] explained to Rear Adm. Charles J. Leidig that if a member of the special forces team used weapons to protect U.S. facilities, personnel or themselves, he would be subject to Libyan law,” Hicks wrote. “The law would be administered by judges appointed to the bench by Moammar Gadhafi or, worse, tribal judges.”
Hicks went on to say that the media’s interpretation of the events leading up to the attack are “strange.” He said, “my recollection of events is that after the August 6 incident, Gen. Ham wanted to withdraw the entire special forces team from Tripoli until they had Libyan government approval or their new mission had diplomatic immunity necessary to perform their mission safely.”
According to Hicks, Chris Stevens “convinced Gen. Ham to leave six members of the team in Tripoli.”
He continued, “When I arrived in Tripoli on July 31, we had over thirty security personnel, from the State Department and the US military, assigned to protect the diplomatic mission to Libya.” However, on September 11, the day of the attack, there were only nine security agents remaining.
Of the nine security agents remaining in Benghazi, three of them were confirmed members of an Al-Qaeda affiliate called the 17th February brigade, and had actually attacked Benghazi before. That’s right, the Libyan “security” forces who Hillary hired to protect the embassy are confirmed terrorists. Of course, when the attack happened, these three individuals refused to protect the embassy with deadly force, they just said they preferred “more diplomatic” solutions. Right.
This needs to go viral. People need to know the truth about what happened in Benghazi. Hillary shouldn’t be president, she teshould be prosecuted. The media’s coverup of this scandal to keep her presidential hopes alive is disgusting. Fight back by spreading the word about the administration’s gross negligence in Benghazi by sharing this article on Facebook and Twitter.
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