We need an explicit timeline of who, what, when and where these events and non-events took place, both in country and elsewhere, with sources.
Then we can sort out definitively who did or did not do what, and where the authority lay at any given point in time.
While the latter is pretty much understood, without clear arrows pointing to the one who had the juice and kept it in the can, this is (intentionally, imho) too confusing to get legs with the average schmuck.
The media have conflated and comingled and crisscrossed accounts and timelines and locations to the point where the average person will have trouble keeping straight what happened, much less who was responsible for what in order for any response or rescue attempt to happen.
Keep in mind that this is just this one series of events, not even tying in motive which likely had something to do with gunrunning to the Muslim Brotherhood. (After all, this administration has a track record of running guns to unsavory characters worldwide.)
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