"[A]lthough the scene in the American consulate’s canteen in Benghazi on
Tuesday morning looked serene, under the surface there were signs of
potential trouble, according to the Libyan politician who had breakfast
with Stevens the morning before the ambassador and three other Americans
died in a violent assault by armed Islamic militants. “I told him the
security was not enough,” Fathi Baja, a political science professor and
one of the leaders of Libya’s rebel government during last year’s
revolution, told TIME on Thursday. “I said, ‘Chris, this is a U.S.
consulate. You have to add to the number of people, bring Americans here to guard it, because the Libyans are not trained.”…
Again, this was the anniversary of 9/11 and a consulate that had been targeted before in a country where armed militias still patrol the streets.
What did the Foreign-Policy President have to do yesterday that was so important that he decided to skip his daily intel briefing — the day after an American ambassador was murdered? Ah, right." [Hot Air]
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