— Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jan. 23, 2013:
“I wasn’t involved in the talking points process.... As I understand it, as I’ve been told, it was a typical interagency process where staff, including from the State Department, all participated, to try to come up with whatever was going to be made publicly available, and it was an intelligence product.”
“With all due respect,the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”—Hillary Clinton
This is why CIA/State Dept’s indirect partners in mideast operations, the perpetrators of the attack, had to bring in mortars to eliminate the last resistance, so there was no need for backup firepower.
Those two men that died would want to recount the story of that night and how many times they called for support.
If they held out for 24 hours or more, it would start looking a little too obvious - even with the help of the propaganda machine - that Obama ordered the stand down of the FEST team.