Cartoonist’s view

To the Times: The U.S. Department of State has 11,000 civil service employees and 45,000 Foreign Service employees. It operates 178 embassies all over the world, plus countless consulates in those countries. There are six under-secretaries of State and one counsellor, each one having bureaus and offices reporting to them. Each one reports to the top Under Secretary who then reports to the Secretary of State.

Most, if not all, embassies are well fortified and defended by U.S. Marines. Consulates are outposts manned by a consul who deals in local needs of U.S. citizens and businesses.

They are not fortified and not defended by U.S. forces. The Under Secretary of State for Management has six bureaus that answer to him, one of them being the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, under which is the Diplomatic Security Service.

All reports of the attack in Benghazi had to move upward through the bureaus until it reached the Under Secretary of State who would have sent it upward to the main Under Secretary who would then have sent it to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Since the attack was over in a matter of an hour there is no way Hillary could have or would have been involved in the decisions as to what relief could have been found for the embattled ambassador and his small retinue.

Draw your own conclusions. Why hasn’t the media of any type reported on these facts?