Senator Rubio during a Senate committee hearing
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By Javier Manjarres
Republicans are teeing off on the recent report that Obama’s State Department utterly failed to keep the consulate in Benghazi safe, and raises questions about the security measures that are currently in place at other U.S. consulates and embassies around the world. Earlier today, Republican Congressman Tom Rooney stated that Obama and his administration actions in Benghazi was a “failure in leadership.” (Source)U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who sits on both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent out a screed that pointed out the deficiencies in security of the Benghazi consulate, and called out Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as being “ultimately responsible for the department (State) and the U.S. Posts around the world.”
Share the post below.“The independent report on the September 11 attacks on our mission facility and annex in Benghazi confirms what we have long known to be true: that Ambassador Stevens and the other Americans who lost their lives in the attacks could have been saved by better protection, a swifter military response and more attentive leadership from Washington. In the months leading up to the attacks, credible reports were brought to the attention of the State Department alleging insufficient security in the area. These reports also contained warnings of rapidly growing radical militias that threatened anti-American attacks. Despite all of the information available to them, the State Department failed to construct an adequate safety plan, declined to provide sufficient security personnel and failed to consider closing the mission given the growing threat.
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I join my colleagues in wishing Secretary Clinton a speedy recovery. However, as she is ultimately responsible for the department and U.S. posts around the world, her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is indispensable to any effort to address this failure and put in place a process to ensure this never happens again.”-Senator Marco Rubio
