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Old 11-27-2012, 11:31 AM  
Rochard
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo View Post
what should be a tremendous scandal involving Americans being hung out to be murdered while the administration did nothing
How is this a scandal? I haven't been following this too closely. This was a terrorist attack on a US Embassy that had threats on a daily basis. How many embassies receive threats on a regular basis (I'm guessing a dozen or more) and how many of them have asked for more funding for defensive measures? I'm guess nearly all of them.

At the same time, spending on embassy security in the past ten years has gone up a lot, and is now more than ever.

And who controls the purse strings of the State Department and how much money is spent on Embassy security? It's Congress, not the White House...
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