You ask when a call should have been placed and what mistakes were made in connection with Benghazi and who made them. First mistake was when our ambassador stated that he feared for his safety and requested additional security and it was denied. The directions from the state dept were to assume the appearance of "normalcy". Who made that mistake? No one will own up to that and ms clinton stated that she never saw a request for more security and my question is IF that is true WHY is it true? Who did not tell her?
I haven't seen the following get much press. Elsewhere, I've read he turned extra security three times.
By Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Foreign Staff
By Nancy A. Youssef
CAIRO — In the month before attackers stormed U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed four Americans, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens twice turned down offers of security assistance made by the senior U.S. military official in the region in response to concerns that Stevens had raised in a still secret memorandum, two government officials told McClatchy.
Why Stevens, who died of smoke inhalation in the first of two attacks that took place late Sept. 11 and early Sept. 12, 2012, would turn down the offers remains unclear. The deteriorating security situation in Benghazi had been the subject of a meeting that embassy officials held Aug. 15, where they concluded they could not defend the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi. The next day, the embassy drafted a cable outlining the dire circumstances and saying it would spell out what it needed in a separate cable.
"In light of the uncertain security environment, US Mission Benghazi will submit specific requests to US Embassy Tripoli for additional physical security upgrades and staffing needs by separate cover," said the cable, which was first reported by Fox News.
Gen. Carter Ham, then the head of the U.S. Africa Command, did not wait for the separate cable, however. Instead, after reading the Aug. 16 cable, Ham phoned Stevens and asked if the embassy needed a special security team from the U.S. military. Stevens told Ham it did not, the officials said.
Weeks later, Stevens traveled to Germany for an already scheduled meeting with Ham at AFRICOM headquarters. During that meeting, Ham again offered additional military assets, and Stevens again said no, the two officials said.
"He didn’t say why. He just turned it down," a defense official who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject told McClatchy.
Now my question to you is if one of those four Americans that were murdered that night by terrorists was your son/father/brother would you want answers?
Yes
