You
could see the pained expression on President Obama's face worsen as a
61-year-old undecided voter told the president during the second
presidential debate that he and some co-workers "were sitting around
talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware of reports
that the State Department refused extra security for our embassy in
Benghazi, Libya, prior to the attacks that killed four Americans."
"Who was it that denied enhanced security -- and why?" he asked.
A very good question -- and one an honest news media would have so relentlessly hounded any president to answer five weeks after the Benghazi attack that no voter would need to ask it.
President Obama's answer did not include even so much as a hint about who denied the requested security or why. Instead, he:
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"Who was it that denied enhanced security -- and why?" he asked.
A very good question -- and one an honest news media would have so relentlessly hounded any president to answer five weeks after the Benghazi attack that no voter would need to ask it.
President Obama's answer did not include even so much as a hint about who denied the requested security or why. Instead, he:
- explained that our diplomats "serve all around the world." No kidding.
- explained that sometimes they serve "in a very dangerous situation." Which, of course, is exactly why that voter was questioning why our security was so obviously inadequate in one of the world's most dangerous spots.
- claimed that "[n]obody's more concerned about their safety and security than I am." Which, of course, does not explain why his administration had refused the requested level of security support that our diplomats serving in Libya deemed absolutely necessary for their safety and security.
- said that "[a]s soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team." This is an admission that he did not bother to summon his top intelligence and diplomatic officials to meet with him. This would have helped him determine through face-to-face cross-examination why the intelligence community was supposedly claiming that Benghazi was some spontaneous demonstration that spun out of control while the State Department was supposedly claiming that there was no such demonstration and that this was a well-coordinated terrorist attack.
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