Fox News releases 166 pages of documents in which Ambassador Stevens is begging for security attention.


From Fox News: Understand that Libya has become the most profound foreign policy scandal of the modern American era.  Obama, more concerned for his own re-election,  refused to increase security,  or more to the point,  move the Ambassador out of Benghazi.  Prior to the embassy murders,  that same embassy was attacked twice,  the British embassy was attacked and shut down;  the Red Cross headquarters was attacked and its employees brought home as well.  Rather than do what all others were doing,  Obama was busy pretending that Libya was the crown jewel of his Mid East policy,  an example of USA nation building that was headed in the right direction at a time it was becoming clear that Egypt was more a problem than this Administration wants to admit.

Ambassador Stevens and the others would have been alive,  today,  under any other president,  THAT is the emerging truth in this scandal.  

From the report,  we have this devastating wording: 

Across 166 pages of internal State Department documents -- released Friday by a pair of Republican congressmen pressing the Obama administration for more answers on the Benghazi terrorist attack -- slain U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and the security officers assigned to protect him repeatedly sounded alarms to their superiors in Washington about the intensifying lawlessness and violence in Eastern Libya, where Stevens ultimately died.

On Sept. 11 -- the day Stevens and three other Americans were killed -- the ambassador signed a three-page cable, labeled "sensitive," in which he noted "growing problems with security" in Benghazi and "growing frustration" on the part of local residents with Libyan police and security forces.  These forces the ambassador characterized as "too weak to keep the country secure."  

In the document, Stevens also cited a meeting he had held two days earlier with local militia commanders.  These men boasted to Stevens of exercising "control" over the Libyan Armed Forces, and threatened that if the U.S.-backed candidate for prime minister were to prevail in Libya's internal political jockeying, "they would not continue to guarantee security in Benghazi." 

Roughly a month earlier, Stevens had signed a two-page cable, also labeled "sensitive," that he entitled "The Guns of August: Security in Eastern Libya." Writing on Aug. 8, the ambassador noted that in just a few months' time, "Benghazi has moved from trepidation to euphoria and back as a series of violent incidents has dominated the political landscape." He added, "The individual incidents have been organized," a function of "the security vacuum that a diverse group of independent actors are exploiting for their own purposes."

"Islamist extremists are able to attack the Red Cross with relative impunity," Stevens cabled. "What we have seen are not random crimes of opportunity, but rather targeted and discriminate attacks." His final comment on the two-page document was: "Attackers are unlikely to be deterred until authorities are at least as capable."

By Sept. 4, Stevens' aides were reporting back to Washington on the "strong Revolutionary and Islamist sentiment" in the city. . . . . . .  Read FoxNew's full report here. 

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