If this reporting is correct. Hicks was the regional security officer and he didn't do a good job. He is now demoted and reassigned to a desk job.
I think it is time for the Blue Ribbon Panel to testify to correct the record of the select few of the Issa witness list.
Because if ABC is correct in this reporting, it may be there was a lawyer with some conservative group demanding they report the memos as stated to them without sufficient evidence otherwise.
Not only that, but, according to these accounts the star Republicans witness was the weak link in the chain of security. What the Republicans are trying to do is elevate Hicks to exonerated and demand Secretary Clinton and President Obama be held in ridicule for this outcome when in fact they were counting on a Regional Security Officer to do what was necessary.
Now the truth may hurt, but, the truth is what it is and it is time all the facts were known to the public not just ISSA FACTS.
Oct 8, 2012 6:55am
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens wanted a Security Support Team, made up of 16 special operations soldiers, to stay with him in Libya after their deployment was scheduled to end in August, the commander of that security team told ABC News.
The embassy staff’s (click here) “first choice was for us to stay,” Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, 55, told ABC News in an interview. “That would have been the choice of the embassy people in Tripoli.”
But a senior State Department official told ABC News that the embassy’s Regional Security Officer never specifically requested that the SST’s tour be extended past August, and the official maintained there was no net loss of security personnel. The Regional Security Officer “asked for a number of U.S. shooters because of the pending SST redeployment and he was at that number,” said the senior State Department official, who asked not to be identified because of the ongoing internal investigation....
