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Extremely disappointing, though, that he left out the most critical point in Griffin’s report: that Woods had laser painted the target that was firing on the CIA annex building and coordinates were being sent - something that makes no sense unless there WAS an armed drone available to lock in the coordinates.

Easy to say you don’t have enough information when you ignore a brightly-painted X right over the place that the grenades/enemy fire were coming from.

And why the HECK are we afraid of starting a sh!t-storm by defending our own ambassador and his crew in a country we supposedly just placed our ALLIES in power of - after getting the whole Muslim world to positively love us and ridding the world of terrorism? If our only way to keep peace with our FRIENDS is by letting their terrorist buddies kill all our people - at this point about the same number of people as have died as a result of the storm yesterday - then who needs enemies, anyway? We had the capability of dispersing that middle-of-the-night crowd; would it have been too “provocative” to disperse those innocent little victims who just happened to be taking a stroll at 4am when Woods was killed? But we only had the capability of dispersing the crowd if our assets were actually deployed to the area in order to be available if needed. That is standard protocol, but we didn’t even do that, to have the option of peacefully dispersing the crowd.

Obama claims that he immediately instructed that we try to find and bring justice to those responsible. Well.... Tyrone Woods put a big X right where the grenades were coming from, but Obama let those grenades kill Woods instead of doing anything to either stop those terrorists or bring them to justice. And 3 terrorists were captured by the people at the CIA annex - but SOMEBODY forced the Americans to release those terrorists. Who in that annex building had authority enough to override the (supposed) expressed orders of the POTUS?

Other facts claimed in this editorial don’t match the reporting that I’ve heard. For instance, how many times did Woods request permission to go help? I had heard it was the initial time and then again an hour later, and that he was refused both times and ended up defying orders and going anyway. So which is the truth? When are we going to see the communications that will prove what the truth was?

I’m not sure whether it is better for the media to ignore the issue, or to report falsely. Both options stink.