It wasn't.
Hillary was trying to make an 'impression' by keeping a presence in Benghazi and Tripoli. Hillary was trying to help the Libyans keep their newly found freedom. Her ticket to the Presidency.
Barack (and Valerie) didn't want the Libyans to have their country back. They wanted the Muslim Brotherhood to take it over.
So.... they sabotaged Hillary's plans. Requests for added security were being thrown in the round file cabinet. Obama had the final say on military assistance.
Hillary lost that battle. This is why Hillary resigned.
The Chicago machine roped her in and used her powerful political ambitions against her. Her underlings screwed up because they were either incompetent or pawns under control of the Chicago/Muslim Brotherhood Machine.
And four Americans died.......because of political infighting within the administration??!!!!
Hillary had no power and was absolutely a laughing stock as SOS from Day One. Heck, half the time Obama didn’t even pretend she mattered when he met or talked with foreign heads of state, and she was frequently sent off to trivial events in unimportant places just to get her out of the way. And in any case, she was certainly well enough placed to know that the Libyans actually didn’t have any “new found freedom,” but that Obama’s actions had put in place an even more dangerous new master, AQ allied “rebels.”
So no matter what she did, she was only doing it at BO’s orders.
I think his orders were to maintain the appearance of normalcy, you know, how we trust our Muslim brethren in the new, redeemed, Obama-friendly AQ, we don’t want them to get nervous because we’re armed, we don’t want to have our military there (they had a private British security company) because it might annoy the Muslims, etc., etc., etc.
I think she resigned in part because she got tired of being kicked around and in part because she realized that she was going to be blamed for the whole Benghazi thing, as if she were a rogue SOS who was busy undermining his sainted highness Obama.
Every single high-ranking person, either military or civilian, involved in any way with Benghazi has either been removed, reassigned or retired. It’s not just Hillary. That would be way too easy.
BTW, I agree with you that it wasn’t a set up before the election and Hillary was certainly deeply involved. But I just hope that if they do have more hearings, they don’t settle for pinning it all on Hillary’s incompetence but instead follow it all the way back to where it came from, the White House.
And I sure hope they have more hearings and that the next time they will call Hillary back again. She’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.