The republican Congress cut funding, not the state department.

why was an Ambassador sent with 2 security guards to a diplomatic post(not embassy) in a city that was in anarchy??!! Whole thing is just pure incompetence from the State Dept which Hillary heads up.

Oh. They say on their hands cuz we didn't have guns. Got it.

True, the GOP-controlled congress did pass a bipartisan bill that provided less overall funding than the Obama Administration requested. It is not clear if that this has any causal relationship with the event in Benghazi.

Consider the following statement specifically about Benghazi.

Joe Biden: "We weren't told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security."

So if the Administration had no clue about any need or request for added security specifically in Benghazi, how are we to believe that is where any additional funds would have been directed?



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Please get your head out of your ass.

The quote that started it all.

I believe if we want to know what happened in Benghazi, it starts with the fact that there was not enough security. There was not enough security because the budget was cut.

— Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), speech on the Senate floor, May 14, 2013

Funding for embassy security has increased significantly since 2007:
“The Department of State’s base requests for security funding have increased by 38 percent since Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, and base budget appropriations have increased by 27 percent in the same time period”, said the bipartisan Senate Homeland Security Committee report on the Benghazi attack.

Neither the White House, The State Department, nor Democrats in Congress requested additional security funding:
The Report goes on: “However, there was no supplemental or OCO request made by the President for additional diplomatic security enhancements in FY 2010 or FY 2011,” the report pointedly noted. “Neither the Department of State nor Congress made a point of providing additional funds in a supplemental request for Libya, or more specifically, Benghazi.”

During hearings into Benghazi, on October 10, 2012, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (Hillary, Secretary of State, was never questioned), Charlene Lamb, was asked:
It has been suggested that budget cuts were responsible for a lack of security in Benghazi. And I’d like to ask Ms. Lamb, you made this decision personally. Was there any budget consideration and lack of budget which led you not to increase the number of people in the security force there?

Her answer?

No, sir.

Again, she was asked:

So there’s not a budget problem. It’s not you all don’t have the money to do this?

Her reply?

Sir, it’s a volatile situation. We will move assets to cover that.

On May 8, 2013, the Regional Security Officer, Eric Nordstrom, was similarly questioned before Congress:
Mr. Nordstrom, you were on that panel. Do you remember what she [Lamb] said?

His answer?

Yes, she said that resources was not an issue. And I think I would also point to the ARB report, if I’m not mistaken, that they talked to our chief financial officer with D.S. [Diplomatic Security], who also said that resources were not an issue.

Even the Accountability Review Board , which released its report in December of 2012, fixed the blame for lack of security at Benghazi squarely on the shoulders of the State Department. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s State Department:

Systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus of the State Department (the “Department”) resulted in a Special Mission security posture that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place.

It is interesting to note that Boxer made her comments after the Accountability Review Board released its report, after Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb testified, and after Eric Nordstrom, Regional Security Officer, testified. In other words, she knew better and was lying.

There are many questions left to be answered about what happened in Benghazi, and what happened after that, but whether Congressional budget cuts had a role to play in security breakdowns is not one of them.

I noticed in the movie this scene playing out, a map on a table and the people around the map with Benghazi circled on the map and the different countries on the map that could provide help of some sort?
(Different ETA's on when possible help could get to them.)

And the lady calling someone up asking for help, and the person on the other end of the line asking her "on who's authority are you going to have to approve this?"
I wanted to crawl into this movie and politely take the phone from that ladies hand and ask the individual who asked her for some authority to get his chain of command on the phone and to see if they could not get help for these brave people.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State For International Programs For Diplomatic Security Charlene Lamb testified that the inappropriately low level of security provided for the ambassador that night in Benghazi had nothing to do with budget cuts.

“It has been suggested that budget cuts are responsible for a lack of security in Benghazi, and I’d like to ask Miss Lamb,” said Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.). “You made this decision personally. Was there any budget consideration and lack of budget which lead you not to increase the number of people in the security force there?”

“No, sir,” said Lamb.

"The republican Congress cut funding, not the state department. "