Ok, here’s my personal analysis of what happened on 9/11. Some of it is based on the facts that were revealed yesterday after the Petraeus testimony, some of it is based on statements by Obama and some of it is pure conjecture.
First all, there was a group of Obama top advisors watching the events as they unfolded in Benghazi, watching on a screen in the situation room.
Obama claims that issued the order that we do whatever it takes to get those men out of there (the ambassador at least). So I will take him at his word.
Then a little later they see the dead or dying body of the ambassador being dragged out of the building and paraded in the streets of Benghazi by the terrorists. (No they weren’t taking him to the hospital as Hillary claimed)
That is when Obama issued the stand down, figuring that it was over, too late, nothing could be done and he didn’t want to further anger the terrorists. Obama never gave a second thought to the others at the CIA facility a mile away.
Obama gave up and went to bed because he had a big day of campaigning planned and the rest of the people in the situation room (probably Panetta, Biden, Clapper and a couple of others) told him that they would stay and monitor the situation.
Then the second wave of the attack started and Panetta and the others made the decision not to wake Obama and to do nothing. It was a giant Charley Foxtrot and it was all their fault.
So, they came up with the cover story, including the idiocy about the ambassador being carried to the hospital, and the false narrative about the video. I think that they also came up with the idea to blame Petraeus if the narrative began to fall apart, which it did.
For that reason, I believe that Clapper played a large role in the creation of the false narrative.
An American loving President would see the dead body dragged and then sent in some bombs and bullets to give them a lot of bodies to drag away. But, Obama went to sleep.
Except that there was no way in real time to know the ambassador was dragged out.
Why? Haven't seen any statement that he did anything.
If groups adversarial to Obama had seized all the operations in Benghazi, far greater damage to Obama’s foreign relations would have transpired.
Obama believes he controls those who committed the actions and the deaths were simply casualties in the ‘fog of war’.