ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Throwing Good Money After Bad: Decisions in an Intelligence Vacuum Dear President Biden: We noted in our January 26, 2023 Memorandum to you that National Intelligence Director Avril Haines had expressed skepticism that Russian forces would be…
ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY (VIPS) SUBJECT: Leopards vs. the Russian Bear Decisions in an - Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity for Antiwar.com Original
after the teams have returned to the annex. they suffer for about an hour and a half probing attacks. after two-hour scramble, team tripoli secures that charter plane. among those aboard glen doherty. state department counter terrorism official mark thompson wants to know why the emergency team has not been deployed. the reason i was given this was not the time. how do you react for that? we live by a code. the code says you go after people when they are in peril in the service of their country. 12:07, libya, state department issues an internal alert that al-qaeda linked is claiming responsibility for benghazi. by 12:30, twitter posts are calling for attacks on the embassy in tripoli.
washington that there was a protest in connection to a youtube video? no. the only report that our mission made through every channel was that there had been an attack on a consulate. 4:05 p.m. washington time. an internal state department ops alert reports that the benghazi special mission is under attack. i was notified of the attack shortly after 4:00 p.m. i spoke to the national security adviser, tom donlan. he was my first call. i instructed our senior department officials to consider every option to just break down the doors of the libyan officials to get as much security support as we possibly could. state department counter terrorism official mark thompson wants to immediately dispatch the u.s. foreign emergency support team called fest. it is on alert to do just this mission. i notified the white house of my idea. we needed to act now and not
legal. sales tax on purchases from the internet. right now they can do that only if the companies also have physical stores, bring and mortar stores within that state. the bill passed by quite a wide margin in the senate. it moves on to the house now where some republicans oppose the measure saying it s comparable to a tax increase. well, we have learned who is blowing the whistle on the u.s. government s response to last year s attack on the consulate in benghazi. you ll recall four americans died in that terror attack last september the 11th, including the u.s. ambassador to libya chris stevens. an official in the state department counter terrorism bureau is now expected to appear before congress later this week. he is expected to accuse the former secretary of state hillary clinton of cutting out his bureau from the process of deciding how to respond to the attacks. james rosen is live at the state department with the latest details. james? shep, good evening. mark thompson is the