Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Consulate in Libya: request denied for additional security

"It was five in the afternoon when Mr. Obama took his 3 a.m. call. He still flubbed it." ~ WSJ

This bombshell from the House Oversight Committee today:

“Based on information provided to the Committee by individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya, the attack that claimed the ambassador’s life was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012. It was clearly never, as Administration officials once insisted, the result of a popular protest,” the committee’s chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and subcommittee chairman, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, write. “In addition, multiple U.S. federal government officials have confirmed to the Committee that, prior to the September 11 attack, the U.S. mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi. The mission in Libya, however, was denied these resources by officials in Washington.”

The letter outlines 13 security threats over the six months prior to the attack.

You know this scandal is blowing up in the administration's face when even CNN is beginning to report this as a cover-up!


(and prior to that report, this one.)