Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security

But of course the Republicans are slamming President Obama for not having more security at the Libyan embassy.

On NPR news this afternoon, after featuring Republican criticism of embassy security, and setting the Republican viewpoint up strongly in people's minds, at the very end, they mentioed that the GOP cut funding for the State Department. I don't remember that they mentioned that the security funds were specifically cut.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/jason-chaffetz-embassy_n_1954912.html

Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security: 'You Have To Prioritize Things'

The Huffington Post | By Sarah Bufkin Posted: 10/10/2012 1:32 pm EDT Updated: 10/10/2012 5:33 pm EDT

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) acknowledged on Wednesday that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010.

On Wednesday morning, CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien asked the Utah Republican if he had "voted to cut the funding for embassy security."

"Absolutely," Chaffetz said. "Look we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have…15,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, a private army there, for President Obama, in Baghdad. And we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces. When you’re in tough economic times, you have to make difficult choices. You have to prioritize things.”

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