Sensitive Documents Left Behind At U.S. Libya Mission

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Sensitive documents were left behind only minorly secured three weeks after a deadly attack upon a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, the Washington Post reports:

Documents detailing weapons collection efforts, emergency evacuation protocols, the full internal itinerary of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s trip and the personnel records of Libyans who were contracted to secure the mission were among the items scattered across the floors of the looted compound when a Washington Post reporter and a translator visited Wednesday.

Although the gates to the compound were locked several days after the attacks, looters and curiosity-seekers were free to roam in the initial chaotic aftermath, and many documents may already have disappeared.

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