While appearing on “CBS This Morning” this morning, a friend of beheaded journalist Steven Sotloff claimed Sotloff’s family and friends got little help from the White House while Steven was held captive.
“We just don’t understand why these two Americans [Sotloff and James Foley] had to die,” Barak Barfi said. “We never believed the administration was doing anything to help us.”
“We had very limited contact with senior officials; it was basically limited to two FBI agents and when I tried to ask for a senior point of contact all the administration said was ‘you can speak to the Counselor of Bureau affairs at the State Department.'”
Barfi went on to say he wanted a senior administration official contact who reports directly to the President to convey information to the Sotloff family daily. “Charlie, when I needed to talk to an FBI agent about a very important matter, I had to wait 45 minutes before he could call me back.”
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