Emails reveal sensitive info left exposed after US pullout from Yemen

 

The Defense Attache Office, Saigon, on 30 April 1973. shows the effects of 9th MAB's thermite charges. The one-time U.S. headquarters, made of concrete and reinforced steel, has literally melted and shrunk.

Inexcusable.  Our DAO Embassy shredders were running one month before the Fall of Saigon.

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Internal State Department emails reviewed by Fox News reveal that as security unraveled in Yemen, U.S. personnel were scrambling to finalize their exit plan and were so uncertain about what would happen that procedures for safeguarding sensitive information were bypassed -- with permission from Washington.

The unclassified emails reveal staff on the ground in Yemen, as well as senior department executives in Washington, were concerned the evacuation might go bad and left a communication network running at the embassy in case staff had to return. The emails point to uncertainty on the ground amid fast-moving developments, even as the Obama administration downplayed any irregularities.

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