State Department Official Suggests Libya Warnings Went To The Top -- FOX News
Washington – A top State Department official acknowledged Thursday that cables warning of serious security concerns at the U.S. compound in Benghazi went to department headquarters – and possibly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office – in the months leading up to the deadly Sept. 11 attack.
Deputy Secretary of State Williams Burns, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the cables “would have been reviewed up through the assistant secretary level, and it may be that some of my colleagues on the seventh floor saw them as well.” The seventh floor refers to Clinton’s office.
Further, Burns confirmed “there were certainly memos” that came to Clinton’s office describing some of the dozens of security incidents in the region before the attack that claimed four American lives.
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My Comment: A U.S. State department official is conceding that warnings on Libya went straight to Hillary Clinton's office .... but .... it appears that the ones who are being "punished" are mid-level bureaucrats. Am I the only one who is seeing a disconnect?
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