For Trump White House, diplomatic security challenges remain
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Orlando, Fla. Donald Trump hammered rival Hillary Clinton during the campaign for failing to prevent the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya when she was secretary of state. Soon he’ll be the one responsible for protecting America’s diplomats, but he’s offered virtually no insight into how he’ll do that.
WASHINGTON >> Donald Trump hammered rival Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign for failing to prevent the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when she was secretary of state.
Soon Trump will be the one responsible for protecting America’s diplomats, but he’s offered virtually no insight into how he’ll do that.
After the 2012 Benghazi attack, Congress boosted spending on security to protect the tens of thousands of Americans and foreign staff that make up the U.S. diplomatic service.
Security experts and career diplomats say there have been improvements, but that significant shortfalls remain.
House Democrats are warning that now that the presidential campaign is over, commitment to diplomatic security will once again fade, and the State Department could face cuts both to security budgets and to core diplomatic functions.
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The solution is not spending millions or billions of dollars to provide additional security for every diplomatic post around the world. The solution is to quickly respond with additional security personnel for diplomatic posts when intelligence reports indicate an increased threat, as in Benghazi. The problem with Benghazi is that the State Department failed to respond to several urgent requests for more security to meet the threat.
Obama must have been on vacation on 9/11.
IMHO BO has been on VACATION since January 2009.
BO created a MESS to the DOMESTIC & the FOREIGN Policies. Not surprising to the INFORMED but OBLIVIOUS to his UNINFORMED followers. To those who disagree YOU are part of the PROBLEM.
If anyone can straighten out the Liberal MESS it would be P.E. Trump and his incoming administration.
January 20, 2017 #MAGA
He has already stated that he doesn’t want our adversaries to know what we are going to do in advance. The press/media should consider themselves an adversary.