Accountability at State over Benghazi contrasts with the lack of such at the Pentagon over the Abu Ghraib mess
A bunch of senior State Department officials got booted over security failures at Benghazi. A friend comments, “This is functionally equivalent to the sacking of GOs.” The contrast to the lack of accountability for the Abu Ghraib mess is striking. And I am confident that the prisoner abuse scandal, by outraging Iraqis and fanning the ...
A bunch of senior State Department officials got booted over security failures at Benghazi. A friend comments, "This is functionally equivalent to the sacking of GOs."
A bunch of senior State Department officials got booted over security failures at Benghazi. A friend comments, “This is functionally equivalent to the sacking of GOs.”
The contrast to the lack of accountability for the Abu Ghraib mess is striking. And I am confident that the prisoner abuse scandal, by outraging Iraqis and fanning the flames of the insurgency, resulted in the deaths of more Americans than did the lapses in Libya.
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