I thought you knew...she contracts out her light work to the Russians, the really light work to "DC stickup hoodlums" and doesn't even worry about people overseas. You can credibly have just about anyone killed and blame it on anyone. In this case, a native and unplanned reaction to a YouTube video.
She did. No one else can take the Blame but her and her boss.
Going back to the "mid-and-low level people know things that senior people aren't being truthful in public about." I'm one of those when it comes to personnel recovery efforts in North Africa. But that's as far as I can go. Believe it, or not.
6:02 He believes there was "little to no preplanning (for the attacks)", but most of the US forces all over the world were on a higher alert posture b/c of credible threats about 9/11 anniversary copycat attacks.
There's a lot more to it, but to your point about "senior people said it was ok" (paraphrased), I give you the Benghazi report itself:
You have senior (politically-appointed, for what it's worth) officials, saying everything is ok and that Rice was right, when the professionals actually doing the analysis and writing the reports were told to shut up.
Whoa...couple different issues.
Because most people would want to at least listen to people who've been there, rather than parrot a talking point. Whether or not you believe me, I don't much care. But you now have a piece of information from a first-hand account, so you can't claim ignorance of the facts anymore. Now it's based on your judgement and whether your biases overcome it.
Ross Perot hired his own team to get his people out of Iran when Khoemeini took over....it doesn't always happen that way...Carter left them out to dry
Special case that they were contractors. And Bull Simons was a badass who absolutely believed that you don't leave people behind, even at the risk of his own behind (he'd been retired for a few years at the point he helped Perot).
