US Embassy Security Beefed Up Despite Diplomatic Cost
December 26, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised to beef up security at U.S. embassies and diplomatic missions after a panel investigating the killing of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens criticized what it called "systemic failures." VOA's Jerome Socolovsky spoke to a former American diplomat who warns that more security may damage America's oreign relations.
After the September 11 attack in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton convened an Accountability Review Board to investigate.
The panel's vice chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen, presented the findings on December 18.
"The board found that the security posture at the special mission compound was inadequate for the threat environment in Benghazi and in fact grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place that night," he said.
Clinton has accepted all 29 of the report's recommendations. Senator John Kerry, Clinton's nominated successor, praised her decisions at a congressional hearing.
"In fact, she’s gone above and beyond the board’s recommendation by taking immediate steps to strengthen security at high-threat posts and request from Congress the authority to reprogram funds to increase diplomatic security spending by $1.3 billion," he said.
U.S. embassies attract not only protests like this one last year in Bangkok, but also terrorist attacks.
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