Fact check on Vice President Biden: Slipped up on Libya and security-AP

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10/11/12, "Biden contradicts State Department on Benghazi security," Foreign Policy

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10/12/12, "FACT CHECK: Slips in vice president's debate," AP, Calvin Woodward

"Anyone who paid attention to a hearing in Congress this week knew that the administration had been implored to beef up security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya before the deadly terrorist attack there. But in the vice presidential debate 

• Thursday night, Joe Biden seemed unaware.

"We weren't told they wanted more security there," the vice president asserted flatly. During a night in which Biden and Republican rival Paul Ryan both drifted from the facts on a range of domestic and foreign issues, that was a standout....

BIDEN: "Well, we weren't told they wanted more security there. We did not know they wanted more security again. And by the way, at the time we were told exactly — we said exactly what the intelligence community told us that they knew. That was the assessment. And as the intelligence community changed their view, we made it clear they changed their view."

RYAN: "There were requests for more security."

THE FACTS: Ryan is right, judging by testimony from Obama administration officials at the hearing a day earlier.

Charlene R. Lamb, a deputy assistant secretary for diplomatic security, told lawmakers she refused requests for more security in Benghazi, saying the department wanted to train Libyans to protect the consulate. "Yes, sir, I said personally I would not support it," she said.

Eric Nordstrom, who was the top security official in Libya earlier this year, testified he was criticized for seeking more security. He said conversations he had with people in Washington led him to believe that it was "abundantly clear we were not going to get resources until the aftermath of an incident. 

How thin does the ice have to get before someone falls through?"

He said his exasperation reached a point where he told a colleague that "for me the Taliban is on the inside of the building.""...via Breitbart

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Biden and Obama eagerly spent hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars delivering a lifetime supply of weapons to every human being in Libya. Even if Biden didn't know about specific requests for security in Bengazi--he could have just said so instead of adamantly taking the opposite position. He's certainly aware of US foreign policy which in the case of Benghazi was to be a low key presence, keeping security to a minimum. Despite Benghazi being in an established, extremely well armed--thanks to the US taxpayer--Islamic tribal war zone.

9/21/12, "U.S. consulate in Libya was light on security - local residents," Reuters, Peter Graff

"A lack of basic improvements to perimeter security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi made it an easy target for the attackers who stormed it last week, killing a U.S. ambassador for the first time in 33 years.

The Libyan owners of the main villa rented by the diplomats were surprised at how little, beyond some barbed wire and security cameras, they added to the walled residential compound, on a quiet street where volatile militiamen were free to roam.

Most striking was the absence of a second line of defence inside the main gate on to the street; that left the few guards in the compound little chance of holding off a crowd once the gate, which showed no sign it had been forced, was swung open.

U.S. officials have yet to give a full account of the night of September 11-12 and the sack of the compound that served as the consulate for Libya's second city and the east of the country."...


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 4/11/11, "Libya Costs For U.S. Now $608 Million," Huffington Post

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6/16/11, "Obama's unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day: Are you getting your money's worth?" LA Times, Andrew Malcolm


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