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<blockquote data-quote="GolfWhiskey" data-source="post: 2269584" data-attributes="member: 8068"><p>I don't mean to sound disparaging in any way when I say this, but I think there's been a lot of misinformation being bandied about as to what a FEST team is and what they do. I often hear people say "what about the FEST teams? Those were sent in after the USS Cole, Kenya, and Tanzania bombings? Why is Obama so stupid???"</p><p></p><p>First off, FEST teams are not secret squirrel tactical teams that go into dangerous situations and perform Jerry Bruckheimer-style rescue operations. They are more like a combination of FEMA and the FBI for foreign soil. They don't go in to save people, they go in to cut through foreign bureaucratic red tape and conduct investigations into terrorist attacks, most often bombings. It should be noted that in all of the mentioned scenarios (the USS Cole, Kenya, and Tanzania) the incidents being investigated took place in relatively safe, politically stable environments where security was established and the FEST teams would be exposed to minimal (if any) danger.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://2001-2009.state.gov/s/ct/about/c16664.htm" target="_blank">THIS</a> is what a FEST team is.</p><p></p><p>Benghazi on 9/11 was more like Mogadishu in 1993 than any of those other scenarios. Sending a FEST team into Benghazi that day would have been like sending a lone detective in to investigate a liquor store robbery at the height of the LA Riots.</p><p></p><p>The Pentagon didn't even have aerial surveillance (via drone) on the consulate until after the building had already been abandoned and the entire staff was MIA. At that point what was the President supposed to do? Both he and the State department lobbied Congress for more security funding to protect these and other consulates. Our dysfunctional legislature (composed of dipshits of all political sorts) is to blame for the shoddy security situation in Benghazi on 9/11. They'd rather spend money studying the flow rate of ketchup and giving out hundreds of millions to hipster ********* "green" energy companies than hire ample security to protect true bad asses like Chris Stevens and Sean Smith.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GolfWhiskey, post: 2269584, member: 8068"] I don't mean to sound disparaging in any way when I say this, but I think there's been a lot of misinformation being bandied about as to what a FEST team is and what they do. I often hear people say "what about the FEST teams? Those were sent in after the USS Cole, Kenya, and Tanzania bombings? Why is Obama so stupid???" First off, FEST teams are not secret squirrel tactical teams that go into dangerous situations and perform Jerry Bruckheimer-style rescue operations. They are more like a combination of FEMA and the FBI for foreign soil. They don't go in to save people, they go in to cut through foreign bureaucratic red tape and conduct investigations into terrorist attacks, most often bombings. It should be noted that in all of the mentioned scenarios (the USS Cole, Kenya, and Tanzania) the incidents being investigated took place in relatively safe, politically stable environments where security was established and the FEST teams would be exposed to minimal (if any) danger. [url=http://2001-2009.state.gov/s/ct/about/c16664.htm]THIS[/url] is what a FEST team is. Benghazi on 9/11 was more like Mogadishu in 1993 than any of those other scenarios. Sending a FEST team into Benghazi that day would have been like sending a lone detective in to investigate a liquor store robbery at the height of the LA Riots. The Pentagon didn't even have aerial surveillance (via drone) on the consulate until after the building had already been abandoned and the entire staff was MIA. At that point what was the President supposed to do? Both he and the State department lobbied Congress for more security funding to protect these and other consulates. Our dysfunctional legislature (composed of dipshits of all political sorts) is to blame for the shoddy security situation in Benghazi on 9/11. They'd rather spend money studying the flow rate of ketchup and giving out hundreds of millions to hipster ********* "green" energy companies than hire ample security to protect true bad asses like Chris Stevens and Sean Smith. [/QUOTE]
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