They should be asked why a mercenary group in the UK, small and untested, was contracted to organize the security for the consulate in the terrorist capital of the world.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 PM [afternoon... 5 pm?] : (PANETTA, OBAMA & DEMPSEY SPEND A WHOLE 15 MINUTES DISCUSSING THE ONGOING ATTACKS ON US FACILITIES AND PERSONNEL IN BENGHAZI) “Mr. Panetta said he and Mr. Obama, along with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, discussed the attack for 15 minutes in the Oval Office the afternoon of Sept. 11, and also covered an anti-American protest that had broken out that day at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
Testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mr. Panetta said the president told them to “do whatever you need to do to be able to protect our people there,” though when it came to specifics the president “left it up to us.”
Republicans said they were dismayed that the Defense Department’s top officials and Mr. Obama didn’t speak again over the next six hours, during witch two attacks claimed the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.”———Washington Times
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 PM [afternoon... 5 pm?] : (PANETTA, OBAMA & DEMPSEY SPEND A WHOLE 15 MINUTES DISCUSSING THE ONGOING ATTACKS ON US FACILITIES AND PERSONNEL IN BENGHAZI)
Oh, and at some point in the day Obama phones Netanyahu and brushes off his request for a meeting as I recall.