So was Hillary responsable for there not being Marines/protection at the Benghazi Embassy?
Well The Buck always stops some distance from Obozo so Hillary would not be a bad choice.
Your answer is right in the article: “The State Department has the lead for embassy security around the world.”
Until the Marine FAST arrived after the the assassination of Ambassador Stevens, there were no Marines assigned to embassy duty anywhere in Libya; including the embassy in Tripoli.
The responsibility for the decision and policy to use only contract personnel and local security to guard the embassy/consulate in Libya, despite all the diplo-speak double talk in the article, falls directly upon DoS ...and Secretary Clinton is at the top of that “food chain.”
She is the current Secretary of State, who else would be responsible? The US Marines don’t go where they feel like, they go where they are assigned, and it seems that the State Department didn’t ask for Marines in Libya.