Secretary Clinton was in office from 2009 through 2013. There is something about her initiatives that failed? Read the job description. She is not the defense department and her budgets were cut to insure the State Department was impacted. When Congress makes cuts to the country's budget it should never impact the safety of our diplomats abroad. That is the last place where budget cuts should occur.
This is the Benghazi Consulate before the fires. It doesn't even come close to being secure according to demands of USA standards. Congress can blame themselves.
The Inman Report, formally known as the Report of the Secretary of State's Advisory Panel on Overseas Security, was a report released in 1985 in response to the Marine barracks bombing and the April 1983 US Embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. The report is usually known by the name of its chairman, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, USN (Ret.)
The report recommended a range of security improvements, including increased distance between embassies and public streets (known as "setback.") It also recommended a major building program to improve security in existing embassies, and build new embassies to replace those that could not meet security standards. A direct result from the Report was the creation of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Diplomatic Security Service within the U.S. State Department.
The US embassies around the world are substandard even by our own laws. In order to defend an embassy it starts with secure facilities. I don't care how many soldiers were going to be in Benghazi, there would never have been enough. It is East Libya. It threatened Gaddfi enough to cause him to seek genocide of the people there.
The Inman Report, formally known as the Report of the Secretary of State's Advisory Panel on Overseas Security, was a report released in 1985 in response to the Marine barracks bombing and the April 1983 US Embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. The report is usually known by the name of its chairman, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, USN (Ret.)
The report recommended a range of security improvements, including increased distance between embassies and public streets (known as "setback.") It also recommended a major building program to improve security in existing embassies, and build new embassies to replace those that could not meet security standards. A direct result from the Report was the creation of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Diplomatic Security Service within the U.S. State Department.
The US embassies around the world are substandard even by our own laws. In order to defend an embassy it starts with secure facilities. I don't care how many soldiers were going to be in Benghazi, there would never have been enough. It is East Libya. It threatened Gaddfi enough to cause him to seek genocide of the people there.
