This is always the answer from the lefties, as for them there's NEVER enough of our money to spend.
HOWEVER, on this matter LeslieChow is completely wrong. Funding was NOT an issue at all. During the Benghazi hearings, of course the issue of funding for security came up. Here is the pertinent question and definitive answer;
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State For International Programs For Diplomatic Security Charlene Lamb Testified Before The House Oversight Committee That Budget Cuts Had Nothing To Do With Security Decisions In Benghazi.
REP. DANA ROHRABACHER (R-CA): “It has been suggested the budget cuts are responsible for 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 that led you not to increase the number of people in the security force there?”
CHARLENE LAMB: “No, sir.”
(U.S. House Of Representatives, Oversight And Government Reform Committee, Hearing, 10/10/12)
And this;
Robert Baldre, The State Department’s Chief Financial Officer For Diplomatic Security, Wrote That “I Do Not Feel That We Have Ever Been At A Point Where We Have Sacrificed Security Due To Lack Of Funding.” “Robert Baldre, your chief financial officer for diplomatic security, stated, and I quote, ‘I do not feel that we have ever been at a point where we have sacrificed security due to lack of funding,’ Rep. Steven Chabot, Ohio Republican, told Mrs. Clinton.” (Guy Taylor and Shaun Waterman, “Tears And Rage: Clinton Testily Defends Depiction Of Benghazi Events,” The Washington Times, 1/23/13)
It's amazing and sick but NO ONE EVER took genuine responsibility for this avoidable incident. An American Ambassador was murdered, and no one seemed responsible. It's hard to believe that Obama and Clinton were among the first to know about the attack, and rather than INSURE that SOMEONE tried to help them, they started scheming immediately to find an excuse for their failure, and came up with the bogus "it was a video" story, that night.
And then they went to bed, WHILE the 13 hour battle was ongoing!! Anyone who would want this POS Clinton for our Prez isn't thinking clearly.
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LeslieChow
9 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6BLMz1chEM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/jason-chaffetz-embassy_n_1954912.html
Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security: ‘You Have To Prioritize Things’
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) acknowledged on Wednesday that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010.
On Wednesday morning, CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien asked the Utah Republican if he had “voted to cut the funding for embassy security.”
“Absolutely,” Chaffetz said. “Look we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have…15,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, a private army there, for President Obama, in Baghdad. And we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces. When you’re in tough economic times, you have to make difficult choices. You have to prioritize things.”
For the past two years, House Republicans have continued to deprioritize the security forces protecting State Department personnel around the world. In fiscal year 2011, lawmakers shaved $128 million off of the administration’s request for embassy security funding. House Republicans drained off even more funds in fiscal year 2012 — cutting back on the department’s request by $331 million.
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LeslieChow
9 years ago
The Secretary of State does not decide if Marines go in or not.There have been multiple tax payer paid republican led Benghazi witchhunts/ investigations and none of them could find that Hillary was at fault.Educate yourself.Hilary 2016!!!
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