By
March of 2012
, Benghazi was requesting at least 5 more security agents. That despitenumerous reports of increasing terror threats and pleas for additional security at the Benghazicompound, the Obama Administration not only refused any additional security, they reducedsecurity at the Benghazi installation. Warnings of organized terror threats had become critical,supported by U.S. Intelligence by June and July 2012.
By
June and July of 2012
, pleas for additional security under a deteriorating situation on theground in Libya had become shrill. Yet, the Benghazi compound was left to rely only upon localLibyan militia groups for compound security. The same militia groups that included members of known terror organizations, specifically including Islamic Maghreb and Al Qaeda operatives, asreported to the Obama Administration by consulate officials on numerous occasions.
By
August 2012
, the situation had become critical, causing Ambassador Chris Stevens to issueyet another plea for immediate increased security to protect American diplomats in Benghazi,which was once again ignored by the Obama White House and State Department. Benghaziofficials started copying numerous Obama agencies in on the cables, in search of someone whowould listen.
On
September 4, 2012
, seven days before the deadly attacks on the Benghazi consulate,Ambassador Stevens issued a
“
MAXIMUM ALERT
”
to ALL Obama Administration agenciesconcerning the imminent threat of terror attacks coming from inside the new Libyan government,military, police and the same militia groups they were forced to rely upon for consulate security.
The Obama Administration had been warned for twelve months in advance that the situation inLibya was deteriorating to the degree that those officials in Benghazi no longer felt safe anddesperately needed additional security. Pleas that Obama officials denied repeatedly all the wayup to days before the attacks.
The cables demonstrate that the Obama Administration knew that there was an increasing threat,that it was an organized terrorists threat, that it was planned in advance, that it was well fundedand armed in part by the U.S. State Department, that the consulate was a
“
sitting duck
”
withinadequate security falling well below standard security protocol and that the events of September2012 had absolutely nothing to do with an obscure YouTube video.
That the Obama Administration failed to react to repeated warnings all the way up to the day of the attacks, and that even as those cables were pouring into administration officials begging forhelp, administration officials were knowingly creating a cover story concerning an obscureYouTube video in an effort to escape responsibility for the deaths of American officials.
On the day of the 2012
Embassy attacks, additional warnings were pouring in from installationsin Tripoli and other places, while Ambassador Stevens was being beaten, raped, murdered anddragged through the streets of Libya.
The cables prove that the Obama Administration is directly and criminally responsible for theevents that unfolded on the eleventh anniversary of 9-11-01
–
and that they took specific actionsto leave the Benghazi consulate vulnerable, and then created a cover story in an effort to escapeadministrative responsibility.
The Administration allowed two weeks to pass following the attacks, along with the degrading of physical evidence before putting the F.B.I. on the ground in Benghazi to investigate, during