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Benghazi Boogaloo: Susan Rice Simply Relayed the CIA's Benghazi Talking Points

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Achilles Tang11/15/2012 4:26:56 pm PST

re: #154 Talking Point Detective

Yes. No doubt. But you still need to have evidence of incompetence. It is very easy to reverse engineer and assume incompetence. But that is useless if you don’t have the information to ground your argument. This is about having the appropriate investigation done. Finger-pointing is just counterproductive towards that goal.

I don’t wish disrespect on the dead, but the bottom line seems to me to be that the person first responsible, and most competent, for security preparations, including where one placed oneself and others on a day like 9/11, in a wild west like Libya, was the ambassador himself who was highly experienced.

Certainly we need to know if his own plans and requests were somehow thwarted by anyone in the administration, but he was in command on the ground and were he alive that is where the buck would have stopped.