evidence would seem to suggest that the state department and maybe the government at large knew that benghazi was a death trap and didn t do anything about it. and then when americans came under attack and four were murdered, arguably, they didn t do anything about it. and then after wards they afterwards they deleted what is, again, i use the word arguably, the truth of the matter, that it was an al-qaeda-linked terrorist attack. and then finally, they arguably retaliated against those who wanted to tell the truth. i mean, this is not a good scenario for the white house. well, for the white house or for the state department in this, in this back and forth. i think there are a lot of questions that have yet to be answered. we ve talked about this a lot not just on these talking points, and it s important to realize that benghazi is much more about that security question. we ve had a lot of reporting for a long time.
ambassador was a unique individual. he had relationships with the libyan government. he was there during the rebellion, and he was thought of as mr. libya. and so his comfort level was sort of taken as how can i be more holier than the pope. and unfortunately, the personality of politics never really comes across in these debates. chris, you know, a brilliant guy, a wonderful guy i obviously several the loss, but he had the best and so nobody thought to second-guess him. in the end i think that s part of the story. joe decline writes about the security question, saying who is to blame for the lacks security? could it have been the secretary of state? undoubt think no. could it have been the republicans who consistent lid voted against funds for
grips with how serious and how long term this problem is going to be. i think it could be a 50 to 70 year problem. joy, it s a political question. it s a security question. two years after osama bin laden has been killed, are we safer as a country or not? i think that this country obviously has a lot of basic freedoms that make it impossible to police every potential threat. we still have red blooded americans going into schools and maskering 26 people including children. we still have situations where domestic terrorist operatives that have nothing to do with islam have hit this country. oklahoma city had nothing to do with islamism. there are bad people who want to do awful thipgs. you can t stop them all. what we can do is try to do the best we can in terms of sensible security policy. i don t think anybody in the country wants to go back to the bush era and what we were doing with domestic wiretapping, what we were doing with demonizing and targeting entire groups of people bas
now, we still refuse to come to grips with how serious and how long term this problem is going to be. i think it could be a 50 to 70 year problem. joy, it s a political question. it s a security question. two years after osama bin laden has been killed, are we safer as a country or not? i think that this country obviously has a lot of basic freedoms that make it impossible to police every potential threat. we still have red blooded americans going into schools and maskering 26 people including children. we still have situations where domestic terrorist operatives that have nothing to do with islam have hit this country. oklahoma city had nothing to do with islamism. there are bad people who want to do awful thipgs. you can t stop them all. what we can do is try to do the best we can in terms of sensible security policy. i don t think anybody in the country wants to go back to the bush era and what we were doing with domestic wiretapping, what we were doing with demonizing and targe
yet the coverage of the first two days after boston was, gee, i wonder what motivated these two chechens? now, we still refuse to come to grips with how serious and how long term this problem is going to be. i think it could be a 50 to 70 year problem. joy, it s a political question. it s a security question. two years after osama bin laden has been killed, are we safer as a country or not? i think that this country obviously has a lot of basic freedoms that make it impossible to police every potential threat. we still have red blooded americans going into schools and maskering 26 people including children. we still have situations where domestic terrorist operatives that have nothing to do with islam have hit this country. oklahoma city had nothing to do with islamism. there are bad people who want to do awful thipgs. you can t stop them all. what we can do is try to do the best we can in terms of sensible security policy. i don t think anybody in the country wants to go back to t