Jimmy Carter must be doing cart wheels down the street in Plain, Georgia as he reads the news about the latest fiascoes in foreign policy by the Obama administration.
First, with the week leading up to 9/11, when terrorism is at it's worst, where was President Obama? Not attending Intelligence Meetings 9maybe he thought he was too intelligent for the meeting and didn't go?)
From Real Clear Politics: How long had it been since President Obama attended his daily
intelligence meeting in the lead-up to the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S.
diplomatic facilities in Egypt and Libya? After all, our adversaries are
known to use the anniversary of 9/11 to target the United States.
According
to the public schedule of the president, the last time the Obama
attended his daily intelligence meeting was Sept. 5 — a week before
Islamist radicals stormed our embassy in Cairo and terrorists killed our
ambassador to Tripoli. The president was scheduled to hold the
intelligence meeting at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, the day after the attacks,
but it was canceled so that he could comfort grieving employees at the
State Department — as well he should. But instead of rescheduling the
intelligence briefing for later in the day, Obama apparently chose to
skip it altogether and attend a Las Vegas fundraiser for his re-election
campaign. One day after a terrorist attack. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/09/13/this_president_doesn039t_need_intel_briefers_290072.html
And then this from the Independent: The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff
were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security
breach, The Independent can reveal.
American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens
had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his
visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be
confidential.
The US administration is now facing a crisis in
Libya. Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in
Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the
city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack.
Other such refuges across the country are no longer deemed "safe".
Some
of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of
Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk
from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to
relate to oil contracts.
According to senior diplomatic sources,
the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs
charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that
American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for
diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is
severely restricted.
Mr Stevens had been on a visit to Germany,
Austria and Sweden and had just returned to Libya when the Benghazi trip
took place with the US embassy's security staff deciding that the trip
could be undertaken safely.
Eight Americans, some from the
military, were wounded in the attack which claimed the lives of Mr
Stevens, Sean Smith, an information officer, and two US Marines. All
staff from Benghazi have now been moved to the capital, Tripoli, and
those whose work is deemed to be non-essential may be flown out of
Libya. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html
And this: President Barack Obama ordered increased security at American embassies
and consulates around the world Thursday following the attack and urged
its citizens abroad to be vigilant. His administration sent two warships
to the Libyan coast, ready to respond to any mission ordered by the
president, and 50 Marines were sent to the Libyan capital of Tripoli to
help with security. Obama told voters campaigning Thursday in Colorado
that the Benghazi Consulate killers will be brought to justice and that
protecting Americans serving abroad is one of his highest priorities.
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