I suspect that while the main mission of The Farm in Bengazi was arms smuggling, I’d wager there was also —AHEM— *interrogations* going on, there.
Rush’s theory:
After Obama’s coronation the idea that there were still some people who didn’t consider him God didn’t enter their minds —”We are the ones we have been waiting for...” Obama Admin assumed all past trouble would be attributed to Bush and America’s past —it would be different now that THEY were here...Obama/Hillary didn’t want those people to die, really, they simply believed their own hype.
MY theory:
The key to Syria was LOTS and lots of guns, and the way to get those w/o Congress was from Khadaffi via Turkey. This op is way, WAY bigger than most realize: it’s guns, ammo, RPG’s, guided anti-aircraft missiles —the works. They fancied that THEY could change the whole face of the Muslim world.
A rescue would bring a MUCH higher level of attention on their whole covert scheme, right b4 the election, and per Desert 1 & Mogadishu there was no guarantee that the rescue would succeed.
The treacherous but “smart” play was to just pull the plug and hope they would all die quietly.
Stevens met with the Turkish Consul General shortly before he was killed. Bit of a conflict with the official story of wanting to expand our presence in Benghazi, don’t you think? Agree with you that several “activities” were going on there and were significant enough to warrant the ambassador’s personal attention.