Are you saying that attempting to rescue the Ambassador was secondary to protecting government secrets? In other words secrets trump lives. What if they had saved the life of the Ambassador, would your view be the same?
I don't believe secrets trump lives, but then I'm not in the spy business where sometimes they probably do make those sorts of decisions.
I'm saying that if the administration held back because of risk of political fallout for his re-election campaign, than that would be misfeasance.
It may be likely that they held back because The Ambassador was involved in a CIA operation and probably shouldn't have been put in that position, and that the administrations may have taken the situation lightly and tried low hanging fruit and low key methods so that the former wouldn't be revealed, but where quickly overwhelmed by circumstances and not having credible awareness of what was happning -- until it was too late.
Umm....you asked two great questions.
As for question 1, the answer depends on the underlying nature of the secrets, and I doubt the pair were witting to everything going on at the "annex". So I don't know, but a better answer is that the SEAL pair also did not know, they only knew that two US lives nearby were in danger, and they made that call suddenly, as things were happening --that's how life works, a lot of the time.. I don't know the secrets we lost at the captured annex and I think we'll never know. But that was a great question.
As for question 2, the answer would depend on whether or not the act of saving the Ambassador's life would come at the cost of losing the annex with the secrets there--I presume you imply that the rescue would involve that loss. And my answer is, "maybe".
Not good answers, but your questions were great.
You should remember this conversation in case some airliners get shot down in the near future. I'm not saying I know that some will but I'm SURE that the chances of that happening just went up, since a big part of the mission at the annex had been to protect against that.
While I was already worried about that I'm more worried now and the biggest worriers will be Hillary and Hussein, now. Or they SHOULD be, I guess I should say...mostly it seems they worry about their own hides, though...