During his time as secretary of state, Mike Pompeo set about building a unit within the department tasked with rapidly evacuating Americans who came into harm’s way while overseas. Intent on ensuring that there would never be a repeat of the disaster that took place at the U.S. embassy in Benghazi in 2012, Pompeo and his deputies developed the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR) “from scratch,” Pompeo told National Review in an interview.
“The administration of Donald Trump was serious about making sure we had all the capabilities to respond to the needs of American citizens all around the world in a timely fashion with adequate medical response and adequate ability to get them home to their families,” Pompeo said.
“We had seen the failure of the Obama administration in Benghazi and Libya in exactly this regard, and we were determined to make sure those failures were never repeated,” he continued. “We had built out a set of capabilities and institutions to deliver on that.”
But rather than building on the Trump administration’s processes, the Biden administration “chose a different path,” Pompeo said.................To Read More.........
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