RSO in Libya Twice Asked DoS for More Security

?Love_n_Respect? I honestly don't remember where I got the impression that they worked at both sites. It was something about building number 2 out of the 3 buildings in the more public compound. For better or worse, the 5 "DSS Agent" barricaded themselves in buildings 2 and 3 in the first compound. Why? Once they "got their long guns", why didn't the "DSS Agents" orient on the Ambassador and find and protect him? They are capable fighting their way out of an ambush, but that is to save their protectee. The last version of the story (so far) had armored SUVs being driven from the Annex to the first compound to evacuate staff and then getting their tires shot to pieces on the way back and the personnel bailing out under RPG fire and making it on foot to the Annex. The first stories had the staff humping it from the first compound to the Annex. The aerial photos make that look like a long trip because you can't cut across yards (see the NYT aerials.)

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In case a later story plays a semantics game, the CIA "Station" is usually inside the embassy where the station chief works under official diplomatic cover.

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It also appears that Brandon's friends were performing multiple functions as CIA contractors. In addition to hunting Manpads, they were part of the Annex's QRF. Doesn't this mean that the CIA regarded the sites as being sufficiently threatened to maintain their own 8 man QRF? And, were all 5 DSS Agents really State security officers or were some CIA security contractors? I wish to repeat here that had the two ex-SEALs been charged with the Ambassador's security, we would not have lost the Ambassador unless he caught a round. As it turns out, sadly, those men were providing security to the front gate area of the Annex and were hit by the first 6 round mortar barrage.

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It is my theory that the two compounds were satisfactory to the CIA and that State deferred to them concerning those facilities. Remember, State gave the wrong number of personnel to the Libyans for the evacuation convoy to the airport. You think State may not have known the number of assigned and TDY CIA personnel in Benghazi? That's my surmise. State sounded stupid when not identifying the 2 men in the shot up SUV near the Mexican Marine firearms range. Later, after the CIA said OK, they were identified as CIA personnel. Meanwhile, the DEA and FBI had said the men weren't theirs! Guess who was left?

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Partisan politics and inept thinking by the White House staff and State resulted in this situation being blown into scandalous incompetence instead of routine incompetence. What it was is a terrible tragedy exacerbated by the complicated relationship between the CIA and State that probably exists many places overseas. Just think what would have happened if a mild version of the truth had been told at the beginning. It was a post dedicated to helping the Libyans and hunting stray Manpads. That would have been perfectly acceptable to the world (well, most of the world) even if it was manned by "Defense and CIA personnel." "And the truth shall set you free."

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