the state department. i asked ambassador rice what her role was. she said she would have to refresh her memory, but that she was not involved directly in turning down the requests, but surely given her position as the assistant secretary for african affairs she had to be aware of the general threat assessment and of the ambassador s repeated requests for more security. sean: the senator is absolutely right. the comparisons, they are eerily similar. here s why. back in september, prudence bushnell, the former u.s. ambassador to kenya at the time of the 98 bombings penned an op-ed in the new york times in reaction to the benghazi attack. she wrote, we must make that work safer. the reasons change, but the human effects are the same.
the state department. i asked ambassador rice what her role was. she said she would have to refresh her memory, but that she was not involved directly in turning down the requests, but surely given her position as the assistant secretary for african affairs she had to be aware of the general threat assessment and of the ambassador s repeated requests for more security. sean: the senator is absolutely right. the comparisons, they are eerily similar. here s why. back in september, prudence bushnell, the former u.s. ambassador to kenya at the time of the 98 bombings penned an op-ed in the new york times in reaction to the benghazi attack. she wrote, we must make that work safer. the reasons change, but the human effects are the same.