A False Sense of Security Doomed Benghazi Consulate Workers
A lot went wrong at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on September 11, but according to new interviews with the staff, the staff should've been better prepared.
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Christopher Stevens' father would really like it if everyone stopped trying to turn his son's death into a political issue.
A lot went wrong at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on September 11, but according to new interviews with the staff, the staff should've been better prepared.
It's been 17 days since the deadly attacks on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the scene of the crime is still too dangerous for a proper FBI investigation.
CNN failed to disclose they got tips for their reports on Ambassador Chris Stevens' thinking before this death from his personal diary they found in Libya, and now there's conflicting stories over whether or not they had permission, or the right, to use it.
Thousands of protestors in Benghazi marched together on Friday night to run armed militia groups, including one accused of being responsible for the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, out of town.
American intelligence officials insist that the attack on the Benghazi consulate last week was not pre-planned, but a new CNN report says that Ambassador Chris Stevens had expressed concerns about the safety of the mission in the months before his death.
A new video surfaced over the weekend showing a group of unknown men pulling Ambassador Christopher Stevens from the burned-out wreckage of the American consulate in Benghazi. But who are they and why where they there?
At the ceremony to mark the arrival of the remains of the four diplomats who died in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised their service and promised not to "retreat from the world."
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New photos have been released from the burned-out American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that show what remains of the damaged buildings in the light of day.
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