Obama may have given the order to kill Bin Laden, but he failed to order protection for those men in the Libya?

[jusme]

Embassy, even when asked repeatedly, why?

[unknown]

He never takes responsibility for anything.

He wouldn't have lasted 2 quarters as the CEO of a major corporation

[T.J.]

and then he tried to blame it on some video!

[Iyam A. Phony]

Treason?

[ndmagicman]

And why then did the Republican House vote to cut $300 million from the funding for added protection of US embassies abroad?
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/1...-security/

[justagrandma]

I doubt he saw the memo, no president is responsible for day-to-day requests from all of his departments.

Those men were not in the embassy, they were in a consulate four hundred miles away, I've read the memos, they aren't some panicked 'gotta' memos, just a rather calm and routine mention that the Libyans weren't that good at protection and that some groups were spoiling for a fight.
An assessment of an uncomfortable situation, but not one that was out of hand.

[gatita]

In response to the claims of Obama ordering the death of bin-Laden they are false!! According to a White House insider, President Obama didn't order the attack that resulted in a bin Laden death. Leon Panetta, former head of the CIA, overruled Obama's "persistent hesitation to act." And yet Obama took the credit as usual.

A top State Department security official in Libya told a congressional investigator that he had argued unsuccessfully for more security in the weeks before Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed. Department officials instead wanted to “normalize operations and reduce security resources,” he wrote in an email Tuesday. Senior State Department officials acknowledged to Congress on Wednesday that they had turned down requests to send more U.S. military personnel to guard diplomatic facilities in Libya shortly before the Sept. 11 attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. But Charlene Lamb, deputy assistant secretary in charge of diplomatic security, argued that security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi was appropriate for known threats related to the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.

The records obtained by Reuters consist of three emails dispatched by the State Department's The text said the State Department's regional security office had reported that the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was "under attack.

A second email, headed "Update 1: U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi" and timed 4:54 p.m. Washington time, said that the Embassy in Tripoli had reported that "the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi had stopped and the compound had been cleared." It said a "response team" was at the site attempting to locate missing personnel.

A third email, also marked SBU and sent at 6:07 p.m. Washington time, carried the subject line: "Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack." The message reported: "Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli."

Every email was ignored and as a result Ambassador Stevens was brutally killed as well as the 4 men assigned to protect him and the embassy. Then Obama described the incident as a "small bump". He clearly is not fit to hold the office of president of the US!

gatita

Degree in History (focus Jewish studies) and Spanish, New Mexico State U. 1990