I don’t know what [FEST] is… it sounds antiquated.
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Tommy Vietor, National Security Council (NSC) Spokesman to CBS News in October 2012 on a phone call that included then-Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough (now White House Chief of Staff).
Via CBS News, May 17, 2013
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They were told they were not deploying by Patrick Kennedy’s front office… In hindsight… I probably would’ve pushed the button.
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An official involved in the Benghazi response on deploying FEST members (Foreign Emergency Support Team), USG’s only interagency, on-call, short-notice team poised to respond to terrorist incidents worldwide.
Via CBS News, May 17, 2013
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She’d rather chew tin foil.
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Said by someone who’s close to Mrs. Clinton when the White House had asked the office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if she would appear on the upcoming Sunday morning political talk shows on Sept. 13.
Via CBS News, May 17, 2013
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We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots …It’s actually closer to us being idiots.
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It was not a sacrifice. It was a choice that I made. I decided to follow a path that I thought was right. And so really, I deserve no praise for it, nor do I really deserve compassion for any of the problems I might have met along the way because it was my choice.
You can protect people where they work by building more fortified embassies. […] But how do you protect them all the time, in all places?
When you have someone storming the compound, it takes more than just the facility. […] It is meant to slow down the attack to give time for the host government to come in with a more adequate response.
When I looked at security measures, if I was satisfied, I was always relatively satisfied. […] I used to tell my security guys, ‘O.K., we built a 16-foot wall, but there is such a thing as a 17-foot ladder.’ That is what we saw happen in Cairo.
State is operating in locations that in reality are essentially war zones or conflict zones, which in the past they would have evacuated.[…] They are operating in much more dangerous environments.
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What a bore it is, waking up in the morning always the same person. I wish I were unflinching and emphatic and had big eyebrows and a message for the Age.
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Chris Stevens, Piedmont High School Yearbook, 1978 (originally adopted from The Living Age, Volume 294)
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