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Can't wait to hear the Obamaniacs excuses for what is an obvious attempt to cover up the regime's bumblefuck ineptitude. The Fraud doesn't want the facts to come to light. Remember the word "transparency?"
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Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., today wrote Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seeking "substantiative answers very quickly" as to why the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still not on the ground in Benghazi, Libya, the site of what the Obama administration now calls a terrorist attack that took the lives of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others on September 11.
"As of this morning, reports indicate that our well-trained FBI agents still have not been able to get into Benghazi to investigate," Corker wrote to Clapper. Ironically, news agencies are in Benghazi. Agence France Presse (AFP), Reuters and the International Herald Tribune, to name just a few, have all filed reports since the attack with Benghazi datelines.
Corker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pointedly asked about the security situation in Benghazi. "Just 18 days ago the administration apparently judged that it was appropriate for our consulate to be lightly guarded and it was safe for our ambassador to come through the city with a small security detail," Corker wrote to Clapper. "What has changed in Libya in such a short time that even FBI agents, our most elite investigative personnel, cannot safely enter the city? What has led to such a precipitous decline?"
The Washington Post, also today, reported the Obama administration had secured neither the Benghazi compound nor Stevens' personal safety prior to the attack. "U.S. officials appear to have underestimated the threat facing both the ambassador and other Americans," the Post wrote. "They had not reinforced the U.S. diplomatic outpost there to meet strict safety standards for government buildings overseas. Nor had they posted a U.S. Marine detachment, as at other diplomatic sites in high-threat regions."
Besides the "security inadequacies" and warnings to diplomatic personal to "keep a low profile," news reports and intelligence officials now debunk the Obama administration's initial claims that the attack was the result of the still-unseen film "The Innocence of Muslims." The Post cited unnamed U.S. officials who say their "preliminary assessment indicates that members of Ansar al-Sharia, a fundamentalist group with deep roots in Benghazi, carried out the attack with the help of a few militants linked to al-Qaeda's offshoot in Africa."
"It seems that with each passing day, the situation surrounding the administration's response to the terrorist attack on the U. S. Consulate in Libya becomes more bizarre," Corker wrote. "The United States Congress and the American people are still waiting to get straight answers from the administration on what actually happened that led to the deaths of four Americans, including one of our ambassadors, in Benghazi on September 11, 2012."
Corker this week joined 19 members of the Foreign Relations Committee, both Democrats and Republicans, in a letter to the State Department asking for information and "an interim report and briefing regarding security and intelligence leading up to the Benghazi attack."
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Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., today wrote Director of National Intelligence James Clapper seeking "substantiative answers very quickly" as to why the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still not on the ground in Benghazi, Libya, the site of what the Obama administration now calls a terrorist attack that took the lives of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others on September 11.
"As of this morning, reports indicate that our well-trained FBI agents still have not been able to get into Benghazi to investigate," Corker wrote to Clapper. Ironically, news agencies are in Benghazi. Agence France Presse (AFP), Reuters and the International Herald Tribune, to name just a few, have all filed reports since the attack with Benghazi datelines.
Corker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pointedly asked about the security situation in Benghazi. "Just 18 days ago the administration apparently judged that it was appropriate for our consulate to be lightly guarded and it was safe for our ambassador to come through the city with a small security detail," Corker wrote to Clapper. "What has changed in Libya in such a short time that even FBI agents, our most elite investigative personnel, cannot safely enter the city? What has led to such a precipitous decline?"
The Washington Post, also today, reported the Obama administration had secured neither the Benghazi compound nor Stevens' personal safety prior to the attack. "U.S. officials appear to have underestimated the threat facing both the ambassador and other Americans," the Post wrote. "They had not reinforced the U.S. diplomatic outpost there to meet strict safety standards for government buildings overseas. Nor had they posted a U.S. Marine detachment, as at other diplomatic sites in high-threat regions."
Besides the "security inadequacies" and warnings to diplomatic personal to "keep a low profile," news reports and intelligence officials now debunk the Obama administration's initial claims that the attack was the result of the still-unseen film "The Innocence of Muslims." The Post cited unnamed U.S. officials who say their "preliminary assessment indicates that members of Ansar al-Sharia, a fundamentalist group with deep roots in Benghazi, carried out the attack with the help of a few militants linked to al-Qaeda's offshoot in Africa."
"It seems that with each passing day, the situation surrounding the administration's response to the terrorist attack on the U. S. Consulate in Libya becomes more bizarre," Corker wrote. "The United States Congress and the American people are still waiting to get straight answers from the administration on what actually happened that led to the deaths of four Americans, including one of our ambassadors, in Benghazi on September 11, 2012."
Corker this week joined 19 members of the Foreign Relations Committee, both Democrats and Republicans, in a letter to the State Department asking for information and "an interim report and briefing regarding security and intelligence leading up to the Benghazi attack."
