the nearly $700,000 deal handled by a contracting officer, given to a mysterious company blue mountain group. blue mountain is a little tiny security company registered in wales. never had a diplomatic security contract never done any high contracts anywhere in the world that we have been able to find. this classified cable first reported by fox news shows mid august of 2012 ambassador stevens and his team knew they were in trouble. warning the state department that radical islamic groups were everywhere. it was a disaster. they were sending these cables back to the contracting guys and the decision makers back here and they weren t responding. it s gross incompetence or negligence. one of the two. two weeks before the attack with the situation critical, suddenly the state department wants their help. they came back to us and said can you guys come in and take over security? so we were ready. i mean, you know, unfortunately
the u.s. ambassador is dead and nobody is held accountable for it, and three guys who try to defend him all died. people who made the poor choices that actually i would say were more responsible for the benghazi attacks than anyone else, they are still in the same positions making security choices for our embassies overseas now. jerry tore is a former green beret, president and ceo of tours advance enterprise solutions which supplies security for embassies and consulates around the world. a former intelligence army officer they have more than 45 years of service. speaking exclusively to fox, they have firsthand knowledge of the security nightmare on the ground in benghazi, libya before the 2012 terrorist attack that killed ambassador chris stevens, foreign service officer sean smith and former navy seals ty woods and glen daughtery. five years after the attack, could it happen again. oh, absolutely. nothing has changed. in the spring of 2012, torres bid on the security contra
torres bid on the security contract for the state department compound in benghazi. the nearly $700,000 deal handled by jan went to mysterious company blue mountain group. guards local hires through another company and not armed. blue mountain is a little tiny security company registered in whales never had a diplomatic security contract never done any high contracts anywhere in the world that we have been able to find. this classified cable first reported by fox news shows mid august of 2012 ambassador stevens and his team knew they were in trouble. warning the state department that radical islamic groups were everywhere. it was a disaster. they were sending these cables back to the contracting guys and the decisionmakers back here and they weren t responding. it s gross incompetence or negligence. one of the two. two weeks before the the attack with the situation critical, suddenly the state department wants their help. they came back to us and said can you guys come in an
the u.s. ambassador is dead and nobody is held accountable for it, and three guys who try to defend him all died. people who made the poor choices that actually i would say were more responsible for the benghazi attacks than anyone else, they are still in the same positions making security choices for our embassies overseas now. jerry tore is a former green beret, president and ceo of tours advance enterprise solutions which supplies security for embassies and consulates around the world. a former intelligence army officer they have more than 45 years of service. speaking exclusively to fox, they have firsthand knowledge of the security nightmare on the ground in benghazi, libya before the 2012 terrorist attack that killed ambassador chris stevens, foreign service officer sean smith and former navy seals ty woods and glen daughtery. five years after the attack, could it happen again. oh, absolutely. nothing has changed. in the spring of 2012, torres bid on the security contra
of libya, the host nation, in this case, did not allow your security contract are to carry firearms. did the blue mountain guards the blue nowed guards were not that s right. yes, the new mountain was. our diplomatic security officers were. the militia members supposed to be providing kinetic help for us were. so it was only the static guards that were not. now, i will say that some of those guards did stand their ground. they were basically run over. several of them were injured the night of the attack. so i don t want to cast aspersions on all of them and the service they provided, but it was not adequate for what we needed then or really at any time. are we facing that same type of prestrucks in other nations, other hot spots? we talked about the 19 missions that are out there. would this type of issue with