Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Copper...Copper...Copper... Date:   9/15/2016 12:45:21 PM

He said that he thought the Benghazi hearings were a witch hunt, but he also told Condoleeza Rice that he blamed the Ambassador for assuming that the Lybians  loved him and that he was safe there; and he also blamed HRC for what happened.  Everyone overlooks the fact that the Ambassador felt he was safe and that the Secretary of State went along with his assessment.  He was wrong, she was wrong and it went down the way it went down.  And all those requests for additional security, were likely between his security officer and the State Department security team.  The thing I blame Hilary for is allowing the State Department to go on dickering as to what the help should wear when they went to help.  She could have stopped that immediately, if she had made a decision.

And BTW, that is the biggest rubbing point between State and Defense - that Defense is leaning forward in the foxhole to get something done quickly and efficiently, and State like to debate, and consider and rethink.  That's why you don't see too many people in Defense taking jobs at State, and vice versa.