Panetta says “intel” as though it is some kind of voo-doo unknown to mere mortals. The ONLY piece of knowledge that he needed was to know the consulate was under direct attack and he had that through video, emails, phone calls, and even radio communications. The military has protocols for handling the unknowns while cowards like him and Obama only had to tell the military to execute their protocols.
Panetta is lying to protect Obama and that FACT that Obama went to bed that night after refusing to give the only thing needed from him, the order to save the consulate.
No kidding - these are the same people who wanted to fry President Bush for taking a few seconds to collect his thoughts in front of a group of children when he was told of the original 9/11 attacks.
Had the clowns in charge now been in charge then, who knows how many more would have died while they were waiting to "perfect their intel"?