We now know that this was not a true embassy/consulate in Benghazi. This was a CIA led guns/arms running scheme to the rebels in Libya. They used the cover of a bogus consulate. Stevens was an integral part of the gun running which put heavy weapons and antiaircraft missiles in the hands of Al Qaeda and other radical Islamists groups. Obama approved the gun/arms running knowing that these heavy weapons could potentially be used against Americans. No assistance was provided to the Americans in Benghazi because if we had gone in with assets like drone strikes or other platforms and killed innocent Libyans, the truth would have come out about our gun running. IMHO.
WALL ST jOURNAL had long article today that is pure administration spin...saying, oh gosh, the state dept didn’t know what the CIA was doing and State and Admin thought the CIA had enough security and oh, gosh, it was all so secret and that’s why this all happened...
and I guess, these things just get so confusing between the CIA and the state Dept and well, golly “what were we to do if we weren’t being told”????
another possibility in all this is that this was perhaps a deal to get the Ambassador “kidnapped” and trade him for the Blind Sheik—a plot that went wrong.