WASHINGTON — The State Department Inspector General’s office has drawn up plans to conduct several reviews of the State Department’s handling of embassy security and the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, including a review of the State Department’s own internal review.

The State Department’s acting Inspector General Harold Geisel wrote an Oct. 26 letter to Senate Homeland Security Committee heads Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, outlining several reviews his office has already started and some they are about to start to determine if embassy security around the world is sufficient, being implemented properly, and if that was a factor in the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

One of their tasks will be to keep tabs on the proceedings of the State Department’s own review of the Benghazi attack, which is being conducted by an Accountability Review Board led by former under secretary of State Thomas Pickering and including former Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen.

“Inspectors will monitor the implementation of any recommendations from the Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB) report and will review them as future inspections are conducted,” Geisel wrote.

Lieberman and Collins were among the first to call for a widespread investigation into diplomatic security at American outposts worldwide when they wrote to Geisel on Sept. 14 to request that the inspector general conduct an independent examination of security, with a focus on smaller posts and non-permanent facilities established by the department in post-conflict nations like Libya.

The senators want the inspector general’s office to investigate whether there was adequate security at the Benghazi consulate, whether there was an established and clear process for determining security requirements at overseas posts, and whether that process was followed in Benghazi. They also want the IG to investigate the operational security procedures around Stevens and determine who might have known that he would be in the consulate at that time and why he didn’t have more protection.

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  3. Well first off Benghazi Benghazi Benghazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I thought I would get the shrill cries from the losers out of the way right off. So since there well could be no end to this investigation until AFTER Obama’s VICTORY. So what is a right wing nut job to do, well I held my nose and went over to Fox Snooze to see what they were lying about now. Here is the headline that was highlighted so I guess this is what we will be hearing here today, tomorrow, next day etc. until time runs out. The headline was  “Service agent on Obama detail commits suicide after probe into alleged affair, sources say”I then headed over to Freepers headquarters to see what those idiots were up to, and surprise they still were Benghazi Benghazi Benghazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii even though most people without any ax to grind have moved on. Yet they, being a little dim witted,  haven’t gotten the memo yet I guess. So the Freepers and the Foxers will be Benghazi Benghazi Benghazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing right through the election day, and will probably bring the dead SS man into it as a sideshow. You will hear cries of Obama had him killed, another Vince Foster etc. but I am okay with all this because the more desperate they sound the more confident I am that OBAMA/BIDEN are winning.

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      1.  No what you smell is fear and desperation coming from BS mountain. Hey maybe in a second Obama term we can get the fairness doctrine reinstated……..Now that would be the kiss of death for Fox Snooze and Talk radio. UMMMMmmmmmm I love the smell of desperation in the morning it smells……….. no really it stinks. LOL! Don’t worry after we win you guys/gals can still wear your silly 3 corner hats and still dangle the T’Bags in front of your faces.

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        1. Hmmm….. The fairness docrine reinstated; now that would be a novelty, wouldn’t it?  Although I don’t think it would be allowed in state run media, do you?  The smell you love is really the truth coming to the surface, it does stink…..  Be careful how much FOX news you listen to John, you might start believeing some of it, and would compromise your personal agenda…..

          You see John, here’s the whole problem…..  From the comments I read daily from you ‘liberals’, it’s all about I, ME, and MYSELF…………  What can ‘I’ gain from all this; in other words you take from society and give nothing back…… 

          I do come from the old school; love of country is probably at the top of my list, I ask nothing from it other than to see it survive for future generations to have the opportunities that I have been blessed with……  That is what is at stake……  Believe it or not John, I have many good friends who are liberal Democrats, and they are bailing out in favor for Romney for the same reasons that I believe; they see too much selfessness from ‘you’ special interest types who obviously don’t give a damn about this country and see the wrong direction it is headed…… Trust me John, they’ve earned  the right to feel that way; have you earned the right to spout your ideals John?   

          So John, let’s see what happens Nov 6th…..   THE  HAVES AGAINST THE HAVE-NOTS……

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    1. Operative words they “may” check back after the election”…..doubtful, they’ll be too busy crying about how Romney “stole” the election

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        1. Mesaage to Chris Matthews…that tingly feeling you have up your leg….is Romney’s dog (that he let loose from the roof of his car) biting your ankle

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