No shots fired from U.S. security during Benghazi attack

State Department personnel under attack on Sept. 11 at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, didn't fire a single shot in their defense, according to testimony given behind closed doors to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week.

According to a source who attended the hearing, committee chairman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., repeatedly pressed State Department under secretary Patrick Kennedy on whether diplomatic security agents were under instructions not to fire their weapons. Kennedy reportedly testified that no such orders were given; but he confirmed that, indeed, no shots were fired by State Department personnel.

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During the attack, a mob of armed men stormed the compound. A State Department security agent watched as the group set fire to furniture in the building where he was guarding ambassador Christopher Stevens and information officer Sean Smith. Stevens and Smith died; it's believed they overcome by smoke. The attackers intercepted other U.S. security officers, trapping them in nearby buildings where they were unable to help Stevens and Smith.

Feinstein and her Republican counterpart, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., reportedly expressed frustration that federal agencies still have not provided requested information on the Benghazi controversy. Also, reportedly frustrating Feinstein and Chambliss: the State Department declined the committee's request to hear from Charlene Lamb, who was in charge of all U.S. diplomatic security and previously testified to a House Committee that security in Libya was adequate. CBS News' Margaret Brennan reported last weekend that Libya and 16 other high-risk posts that fell under Lamb's purview have now been reassigned to deputy assistant secretary Bill Miller as part of a security overhaul.

[eyes_see_ears_hear]

Hey CBS, there's a coverup going on here and you, NBC, ABC and CNN are
facilitating it. I understand you were googly eyed when he 1st
campaigned for office; but, now you see the truth, or can you? The
most transparent administration ever. Do your job.

[Faramir0028g]

I got to say it again, exactly what was Obama's lie, about this attack.


Not what you think he said means. What did Obama actually say that is a falsehood or do any of U Foxbots know what that means...

[eyes_see_ears_hear]

There was a protest to a video. False!

For 2 weeks - "We're not sure what happened." False!

In the debate - "I said it was a terrorist
attack the next day (in the Rose Garden Speech) False!

[Faramir0028g]

I got to say it again, exactly what was Obama lie, about this attack.


Not what you think he said means. What did Obama actually say that is a falsehood or do any of U Foxbots know what that means...

[Mike239239]

How come the bush administration got a complete pass on the many embassy deaths/attacks but now it is an impeachable offense for Obama because he did not fly over there and start shooting people? I guess it is the same thing as the national debt - it did not matter from 2001 to 2008 but now it is all that matters to the misinformed ditto heads.

[ammo17]

i guess we have caught our president and his band of liars in another LIE.this was a concise and well planned attack by al queda.he thought the whole country was stupid,it is just the democrats who believe this fertilizer he keeps throwing at us,just like eric holder and "FAST&FURIOUS.

[nohater]

don't get it. only 3 or 4 Americans were killed, all volunteers, and so many rant and rave about those deaths. but the silence is deafening over the thousands, also all volunteers, killed in the two limited wars of iraq and afghanistan.

[MickKegeon]

Just bumps in the road for Obama.