There are so many things wrong with the timeline provided. Why did it take over three hours to get out of the airport in Benghazi? Where was Obama and Hillary who should have been on the phone with the Libyan President? Why didn't we demand that the Libyan government send forces over to the annex immediately after the attack on the mission compound? Why didn't we mobilize other assets nearby to provide support?
The fact that the WH didn't convene the interagency counter-terrorism task force boggles the mind. We had about 30 American lives at risk. If the host country was unwilling or incapable of protecting our personnel, the WH must protect our people. It is a total failure of leadership.
As I have indicated elsewhere, the timeline provided will set off a firestorm of criticism. By tomorrow, the Benghazi affair will be front and center despite the MSM stonewalling. Once the dam breaks, it will engulf all of them including Obama and Hillary.
If the host government was incapable of protecting our people, we should never have been there in the first place. Yes, we send our diplomats to dangerous places, but you don't send them on a suicide mission.
Also, FP article says Stevens and staff drafted letter to Libyan gov't on Sept. 11 in Benghazi complaining that promised extra Libyan security for that day failed to show and that assigned Libyan police officer was across street taken surveillance film of compound rather than guarding.
What security he did have that day could have sussed the situation out by flashing back to The Godfather hospital scene where Michael saves his father when he notices police guards gone.