Documents at Benghazi consulate still unsecured
The Washington Post gained entrance to the ruins of the US consulate in Benghazi yesterday and was surprised to find documents related to our diplomatic operations there strewn about the floor as if it was a teenager’s bedroom;
The discovery further complicates efforts by the Obama administration to respond to what has rapidly become a major foreign-policy issue just weeks before the election. Republicans have accused Obama of having left U.S. diplomatic compounds in Muslim-majority nations insufficiently protected on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and have questioned the security preparations ahead of assaults on embassies in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and Sudan. Capitol Hill critics have also pressed for an explanation for the slow pace of the investigation that has followed the attack in Benghazi.
Although the gates to the Benghazi compound were locked several days after the attacks, looters and curiosity-seekers were free to roam in the initial chaotic aftermath, and many documents may have disappeared.
No government-provided security forces are guarding the compound, and Libyan investigators have visited just once, according to a member of the family who owns the compound and who allowed the journalists to enter Wednesday.
Yeah, well, it’s just secret documents, it’s not like anyone lost their lives or anything…oh, wait.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Libya
Did anyone actually suppose they would be any more protective of “secrets” at foreign installations than they are with “secrets” here at home?
Since they were still there, evidently the terrorists (or whatever we are to call them this week) had no need of additional copies of the documents.
And reports say that journalists gain access to Benghazi but the FBI investigative team cannot because the area is too volatile? Is it too volatile in light of the attack on the consulate, or has it always been a volatile area? Maybe the State Department should ask the ambassador. (No… wait. He’s dead.) I’m no investigator, but it makes sense to me that the “crime scene” has been compromised already. What would be the point?
CNN and the Washington Post can get there. Why can’t our Government?
Well Twist, let’s start with who is occupying the White House. Second, his faithful lapdog leading the “injustice department”. Now, when I was in a position to drive the bus, so to speak, the operative phrase was “lead by example”. In Obamaland, the operative phrase seems to be “Do as I say, not as I do”. Being spineless is highly contagious when you populate your immediate surroundings with people just like you. I’m sure there is an FBI team out there somewhere waiting for someone to grow a set of balls and send them in. Wouldn’t hold my breath.