Motus Mentis

From Danger Room, here’s a damning summary of the runup to the assault in Libya (thanks to Lokilinkster for the link).

An excerpt (emphasis added):

The security situation in Benghazi was “a struggle and remained a struggle throughout my time there,’ (.pdf) said Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, the State Department’s Site Security Team commander in Libya from February to August 2012. Wood, who is to testify to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, added that “targeted attacks against westerners were on the increase.’

By July, the three diplomatic security teams on the ground in Libya were whittled down to one team “restricted from performing security work and limited to only training local guard force members,’ according to Wood. That team was eventually withdrawn too. [State Department security officer Eric]Nordstrom asked for an extension of the SST teams, but said he was turned down because there “would be too much political cost.’

“There was a complete and total lack of planning for what was going to happen next,’ he added. “There was no plan, there was just hope that everything would get better.’

As Danger Room first reported, security was then largely left in the hands of British security firm Blue Mountain, which employed unarmed Libyan guards and paid them $4 per hour.

Our enlightened Mideast policy: hope for change, but mind the “political cost”. Our ambassador and three others murdered on American soil in an act of war  —  and our President, who had ample warning of their peril but chose to do nothing about it, swans off to Vegas and the Letterman show, meanwhile deploying his sock-puppets to lie to the American press about what he knew and when. Just a “bump in the road”, after all, and there’s an election to win.

Are you angry yet, readers?