The State Department’s billion-dollar boondoggle

Published September 14, 2015 4:02am ET



Three years after the Benghazi attack that claimed four American lives — including our ambassador to Libya — the Department of State has failed to sufficiently increase training for those charged with protecting American outposts abroad.

State’s excuse for this inexcusable delay stems from its desire to construct a duplicative new facility of its own rather than utilizing an existing network of federally operated training centers already training some 91 federal law enforcement entities.

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