the first job of a CIA chief is that the CIA never takes ANYONE’s words at face value
get the intel first before believing anyone
and the idea that the Bengazi incident began as a protest over the stupid video, did not come from intel
it was the story the organizers (who set up the protest as cover) put out
so, my guess is that leading up to September 11 the CIA “actionable” intelligence was poor, and by September 24 Patreaus went to Congress to repeat the party line, not betray all he really knew (IT WAS terrorists and terrorists organized) soon after the attack was over
now, as of today, he and Clinton and Panetta and Obama are all pointing fingers at each other
The protest was in Egypt. There was no protest in Benghazi - only an attack - in which 4 Americans died.