Quaddafi had enormous weapons stores. When he and his government were dispatched the weapons dumps were left unguarded. Anyone who could walk could get thier hands on anything they wanted. Hillary sent Stevens to Benghazi as a bag man. He was there to buy weapons. From what I understand he was pretty careless about waiving around money and making it known what he was doing.
The reason extra security wasn’t sent was the state Department wanted Stevens to contract security with local militias. Problem was the local militias were hostile. His request fell on deaf ears. Remember this was a covert operation. Sending a security detail would bring further attention to what they were doing and what they were doing was extremely dangerous.
Actually, the men who decided to rescue Stevens’ group weren’t assigned to his detail. They were at a CIA safe house close by. What they were doing is still a mystery.
Another thing should be noted is our folks were eventually rescued by a Quaddafi loyalist military transport. The very people we threw out of power.
In the black ops world it is not uncommon to have active military involved posing as contract civilians. The reason is, if they are caught, the State can disavow thier activities.
I must be uneducated but I do not understand why the diplomat corps was being used to deal with Dept of Defense business such as acquiring weapons of war? And I cannot understand how the President would assign the Secy of State to oversee this weapons issue? If there were 30 people working in Libya for the US Gov., were they there to get the weapons into friendly hands? All of it is the opposite of what Reagan was trying to do in arming anti-Communists. Somehow, the idea of the Obama government via inept HRC and her diplomat corps running guns a la Ollie North is utterly fantastic and unbelievable. There had to be more to it.