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It is an approach Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he supports. “Looking forward, I think that the approach has to be to condition our future aid on specific steps toward the rule of law and return to democracy,” Blumenthal said. But critics of the administration’s strategy believe the White House’s options are limited. Arizona Sen. John McCain said the Obama administration has lost credibility. “We have to comply with the law,” said McCain. “And this administration did not do that after threatening to do so.” Meanwhile, the president returns from his vacation Sunday evening. And increasingly there are concerns the lines of communication between Egypt’s military leaders and U.S. officials are breaking down.
Harf declined to say from which region of the world the threat had emanated, saying only that “security considerations have led us to take this precautionary step, as we do from time to time.” The State Department will provide further details soon, Harf said. The security of American embassies and other diplomatic facilities has recently emerged as a political flashpoint in the wake of the September 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, that claimed the lives of four Americans, including then-ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. In the wake of that attack, Republicans accused the State Department of providing insufficient security for diplomatic personnel in Libya.
For Major Garrett’s full report, watch the video above.

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