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" The attack on the consulate was clearly planned in advance and they wanted specifically to get Stevens. Was it because he knew too much or maybe was having a sudden attack of conscience (or had even been told by Hillary or Obama to see if he could get the weapons back?) "

Rethink this:

Put this all in light of the fact that they ( this administration, all the Intel Agencies, the State Department according to Col. Hunt's statements. ) were all listening in on all of this as it was taking place and most likely those drones where there to watch it live.

They waited, no, they sat there for 6 hours and did nothing while they heard the screams for help as those men were drying.
Did this administration panic as it went down and wanted to hide this from the American public that they were running arms into Syria illegally ? a La Iran/Contra/Fast&Furious ?

Or ?

As some have said, after the deal was done Chris Stevens became a liability and he had to be made to shut up ? i.e. kept quite Chicago Style ?

I think the administration definitely knows a lot more than anybody is admitting too - but the problem is that so many of the things they do can as well be attributed to incompetence as to malice, so sometimes it’s hard to sort it out.

Everybody at the top - who would probably have been required to give or approve the orders to send help - seems to have been AWOL. Was that stupidity and incompetence, or was it intentional?

I do think the attack was connected to the weapons that Obama has been busy distributing to radical groups throughout the ME. Supposedly, at the time of the attack, there was or recently had been a group of CIA operatives in Benghazi who had been trying to track down the distribution route for the weapons.

Possibly Stevens was left there to die because the administration hoped that’s what would happen; but possibly it was an accident because they had hoped that he’d be able to put the genie back in the bottle and found out way too late that he couldn’t.

As for the attack, the jihadists obviously were looking for him and wanted to kill him. They had been tipped off and knew exactly when and where to go. They had to have planned it well in advance of the Turk’s visit.

AQ might have attacked anyway, just to show us that they were still powerful (although against no odds, since we didn’t have any military protection there) and still hated us, but this was so focused on Stevens that they must have had a further objective beyond that and it must have been coordinated from the outside. So there is the usual question, what did Obama know and when did he know it?

This has the potential to be a huge scandal for Obama and might even overwhelm the ability of the MSM to spin it favorably. Their only hope is to prevent further discussion of it.

I’m beginning to think the “kidnapping gone bad” scenario makes the most sense.

It appears the Ambassador died of smoke inhalation - or at least that is what incapacitated him.
He was lost in the smoke. There were efforts to go back in for him after they recovered Smith’s body and could not find him because of the smoke.
Later after the smoke cleared, local friendly Libyans were able to find him and respectfully & helpfully carry him to the hospital. (gotta love Hillary’s creativity)

I’ve seen some bloggers talk about an exchange - Stevens for the Blind Sheik.
I don’t think they considered Stevens might actually get killed