CIA moved swiftly to scrub the facility?
Then how did CNN find the Ambassador’s personal handwritten journal on the floor, days later? And pick it up.... and stroll out with it.... and broadcast parts of the diary on the news?
The classified material was in the annex. No one expected Chris Stevens to be keeping a personal diary, however, I suspect that he did so because he knew he might need to protect himself at some point.
He knew he was on a hit list and he had begged for more security but none was forthcoming. THAT much was apparent from the cables he sent to the state department. When he was turned down, I believe he was truly in fear for his life and kept a record of his movements and meetings in case anything should happen to him.
I also suspect he knew the state department had abandoned him but did not know why.
It is also possible that he had learned that many of the weapons being run through Turkey to Syria were being diverted to the hamas in Gaza and had protested this and that is what the meeting with the Turkish minister was about.