Files of the late US Ambassador Chrisopher Stevens lay strewn across the Libyan Consulate (Photosource/

Looters had ample access to the Benghazi compound several days after the attack where the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed.

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The Washington Post said:

No government-provided security forces are guarding the compound, and Libyan investigators have visited just once, according to a member of the family who owns the compound and who allowed the journalists to enter Wednesday.
Two private security guards paid for by the compound’s Libyan owner are the only people watching over the sprawling site, which is composed of two adjoining villa complexes and protected in some places by a wall only eight feet high.

The State Department recovered copies some of the documents at the site but did not request that the documents be withheld from publication.

Again the Post:

None of the documents were marked classified, but this is not the first time that sensitive documents have been found by journalists in the charred wreckage of the compound. CNN discovered a copy of the ambassador’s journal last month and broadcast details from it, drawing an angry response from the State Department. Unlike the journal, all of the documents seen by The Post were official.

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