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Re: Top CIA officer in Benghazi delayed response to terrorist attack US security team
Fine, and I'll post Hillary Clinton's 2011 letter warning congress not to cut funds for her departments security and the budget numbers....
http://www.usglc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/S-to-Rogers-2-14-11.pdf
In a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, Clinton said cuts of that magnitude would be "devastating" to U.S. national security, damage U.S. leadership in the world and render the United States unable to respond to disasters....."We’ve scrubbed the entire budget for savings," said Nides. "We’ve eliminated foreign assistance programs for several countries. We’ve reduced development assistance by over half in 20 others. We have cut funding in Europe and Eurasia by 15 percent. We’ve even managed to identify over $100 million in administrative savings through more efficient travel and procurement."......
For fiscal 2013, the GOP-controlled House proposed spending $1.934 billion for the State Department’s Worldwide Security Protection program — well below the $2.15 billion requested by the Obama administration. House Republicans cut the administration’s request for embassy security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal 2012. (Negotiations with the Democrat-controlled Senate restored about $88 million of the administration’s request.) Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans’ proposed cuts to her department would be “detrimental to America’s national security” — a charge Republicans rejected.
Ryan, Issa and other House Republicans voted for an amendment in 2009 to cut $1.2 billion from State operations, including funds for 300 more diplomatic security positions. Under Ryan’s budget, non-defense discretionary spending, which includes State Department funding, would be slashed nearly 20 percent in 2014, which would translate to more than $400 million in additional cuts to embassy security.
Dana Milbank: Forget about Big Bird - The Washington Post.
Clinton Warns of 'Devastating' Foreign Affairs Budget Cuts
Talking points? It was a direct question asked of the person in charge of security of the embassy, and consulate...And she said the funding had NO bearing on the security there....If talking points are what you are worried about, then maybe you should stop using them.....
I post again so that you can read it again:
QUESTION: 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?
DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE CHARLENE LAMB: No, sir.
Fine, and I'll post Hillary Clinton's 2011 letter warning congress not to cut funds for her departments security and the budget numbers....
http://www.usglc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/S-to-Rogers-2-14-11.pdf
In a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, Clinton said cuts of that magnitude would be "devastating" to U.S. national security, damage U.S. leadership in the world and render the United States unable to respond to disasters....."We’ve scrubbed the entire budget for savings," said Nides. "We’ve eliminated foreign assistance programs for several countries. We’ve reduced development assistance by over half in 20 others. We have cut funding in Europe and Eurasia by 15 percent. We’ve even managed to identify over $100 million in administrative savings through more efficient travel and procurement."......
For fiscal 2013, the GOP-controlled House proposed spending $1.934 billion for the State Department’s Worldwide Security Protection program — well below the $2.15 billion requested by the Obama administration. House Republicans cut the administration’s request for embassy security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal 2012. (Negotiations with the Democrat-controlled Senate restored about $88 million of the administration’s request.) Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans’ proposed cuts to her department would be “detrimental to America’s national security” — a charge Republicans rejected.
Ryan, Issa and other House Republicans voted for an amendment in 2009 to cut $1.2 billion from State operations, including funds for 300 more diplomatic security positions. Under Ryan’s budget, non-defense discretionary spending, which includes State Department funding, would be slashed nearly 20 percent in 2014, which would translate to more than $400 million in additional cuts to embassy security.
Dana Milbank: Forget about Big Bird - The Washington Post.
Clinton Warns of 'Devastating' Foreign Affairs Budget Cuts