H/T Gateway Pundit for highlighting the upcoming testimony before Congress from Lt. Col. Andy Wood who led a 16 member Special Forces team that provided security for the U.S. Consulate in Libya, which was withdrawn by the Obama administration in August, just one month before the terror attack that took the lives of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three others.
They were removed despite 13 separate security incidents prior to the attack that killed the four U.S. Citizens on 9/11/12.
(See a list of those prior attacks in a letter sent to Hillary Clinton by the House Oversight Committee)
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Lt. Col. Wood has told CBS News and congressional investigators that his 16-member team and a six-member State Department elite force called a Mobile Security Deployment team left Libya in August, just one month before the Benghazi assault. Wood says that's despite the fact that US officials in Libya wanted security increased, not decreased.
Wood says he met daily with Stevens and that security was a constant challenge. There were 13 threats or attacks on western diplomats and officials in Libya in the six months leading up to the September 11 attack.
A senior State Department official told CBS News that half of the 13 incidents before September 11 were fairly minor or routine in nature, and that the Benghazi attack was so lethal and overwhelming, that a diplomatic post would not be able to repel it.
Wood, whose team arrived in February, says he and fellow security officials were very worried about the chaos on the ground. He says they tried to communicate the danger to State Department officials in Washington, D.C., but that the officials denied requests to enhance security.
The Obama administration's gross incompetence is responsible for the death of the four men above.
[Update] CBS News report HERE.
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