PING List.
Ambassador Stevens, his aide Smith and 28 other people were at the Benghazi consulate when the attack began. Woods and Doherty were at the CIA annex and heard the call for help from the consulate. They were told to stand down multiple times!
Heroic Americans that they are, they believed that their fellow citizens were in peril, so they went to help. They evacuated 28 people and brought back the body of Smith. They returned to the consulate to search for Stevens. They caused grievous and copious casualties to the terrorists.
What they couldn't conceive of was the terrorists could have been promised a nice and easy 1979 Tehran style takeover where they could humiliate the United States, but then they would turn over the captives just before the election and make Obama a hero.
Oops. Enter Woods and Doherty. They had a different idea. How about instead of a successful hostage incident, we kill as many of these scum as possible, and with backup, we will kill a lot more. But then they couldn't know, that a prior agreement was made and the scum weren't expecting armed resistance, perhaps they were PROMISED no armed resistance, no matter what.
So, in spite of the casualties, the Obama administration still denied armed intervention so as to keep their part of the bargain. Not good enough for the terrorists, who decided to injure, rape, kill, and rape Stevens some more.
God bless Woods and Doherty, and God DAMN those who denied them assistance.