re: #105 Killgore Trout

It seems most of the requests weren’t granted for whatever reason. With that being the case someone at the station in Libya should have cancelled the trip. I’m not sure if that decision would fall on the ambassador or the station chief but the decision making should be reviewed. Without enough adequate security a high value target like the ambassador should not have traveled to a city as dangerous as Benghazi. Somebody should have called it off.

20/20 hindsight. So you have evaluated the relevant information, and based on your in-depth knowledge and your expertise in security and intelligence decision-making, determined what “should” have been decided?

Yes, someone should have called it off, because something bad wouldn’t have happened if they had.

And someone should have detained the 9/11 hijackers. And someone should have detained the Columbine kids. Etc.