Hillary Made Decision Not to Post Marines at Benghazi

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by Michael Patrick Leahy 14 Sep 2012

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt laid the blame for the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the Benghazi, Libya American mission on Hillary Clinton and the State Department:

The State Department just allowed our guys to get killed. If you approve no bullets in guns for the mission security guards and an outhouse for a mission, you’re inviting it.

Earlier, on Howie Carr's radio show Thursday, Colonel Hunt said that the American mission at Benghazi "was like a cardboard building, there wasn't even bullet proof glass." In addition, Hunt said the security guards inside the mission didn't have bullets:

Howie Carr: They weren't allowed to have bullets, is that correct?

Colonel Hunt: That's true. They were private security. The rules of engagement were ridiculous.

Hunt told Breitbart News that the new State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya, approved and signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton since the 2011 fall of Khadafi's regime, severely compromised the safety and security of murdered Ambassador Stevens and all American diplomatic staff in Libya.

He also stated that the decision not to staff Benghazi with Marines was made by Secretary of State Clinton when she attached her signature to the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya document. Breitbart News has subsequently learned that under those rules of engagement, Secretary Clinton prohibited Marines from providing security at any American diplomatic installation in Libya.

Hunt told Breitbart News that "the rules of engagement have been changing drastically over the last 10 years. . . The reason the surge in Iraq worked was we had another 40,000 soldiers and the rules of engagement were changed to allow our guys to shoot. What’s happened in Libya is the final straw of political correctness. We allowed a contractor to hire local nationals as security guards, but said they can't have bullets. This was all part of the point of not having a high profile in Libya."

According to Hunt, the debacle at the American mission in Benghazi is directly the result of Obama's new policies. "The policy of the Obama administration led to this," he said.

"It was the policy of the Obama administration to have a low profile in Libya. That's why the rules of engagement were approved by the Secretary of State to have no Marines at Benghazi, and to have an American contractor hire Libyan nationals to provide security there. The rules were they couldn't have ammunition."

"Obama may not have known the details of the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya, but his Chief of Staff and National Security Advisor would have. The Secretary of State absolutely would have."

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/14/Colonel-Says-Hillary-Clinton-Made-Decision-to-Have-No-Marines-at-Benghazi

Breitbart? Really?

I wonder if other ambassadors have privately complained about the new ROE.

The Ambassador holed up in a room and died from smoke inhalation, I read somewhere today. A horrible way to die. I think I'd rather be shot.

Bullshit.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... -live-ammo

Never let the truth get in the way of a really good outrage.

Soulshiner wrote: bullsh**.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... -live-ammo

It was BreitbartNews. You didn't REALLY expect it to be true, did you?

They're still throwing it against the wall...and it's still not sticking...

Breitbart? rofllol rofllol

Soulshiner wrote: bullsh**.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... -live-ammo

In the original thread post by Otis, show me where the article says anything about Marines and bullets or the Cairo Embassy? The article was about the Embassy in the Libyan city of Benghazi and local private security forces hired to protect the Embassy.

Good try at deflecting the thread, but it didn't work.

Denial, the Nile, Egypt - it's easy to understand the progression of their confusion.