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Rep. Issa: Administration 'didn’t want the appearance of needing the security' in Libya

By Geneva Sands - 10/14/12 11:39 AM ET

A top Republican alleged Sunday that the Obama administration made diplomatic security decisions based on optics rather than the need to protect U.S. personnel in the Middle East.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) made the charge when discussing his panel’s probe of the Sept. 11 attack on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead.

“We believe they didn’t want the appearance of needing the security. We want to put real security ahead of the appearance of not needing security,” Issa Sunday said on the CBS program Face the Nation.

Read more on The Hill's Global Affairs blog.



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