[Brad from Tennessee]

I didn't read the Pickering/Mullen report but Pickering said 10 minutes ago that the State Department's “contingency plan”—for the Annex personnel to defend the Consulate in an emergency—worked. People in the Annex, according to reports, were ordered not to help defend the Consulate. This is like the rest of Obama’s Middle East non-policy—let events unfold then, after the fact, pretend like you were in control the whole time. Like Janet Napolitano’s “the system worked” in the underwear bomber event.

[mylife]

It is Negligence at the least, and Nefarious at the worst.