“they significantly reduced the protection forces”
The debate about whether there were adequate and available forces to intervene in the attack in time is not, in my thinking, a fruitful line of inquiry right now. That is not to say that it is not a significant question that needs to be addressed eventually, but it turns on fairly technical and arcane (to the average person) factors.
Why protection was reduced instead of beefed up is a more deliberate question that can be answered with documentation and testimony. There were policy decisions made. Who, when, and why?
IF the republicants will call hearings and ask the questions. But make no mistake, the democrips will be all out to divert attention away from the treachery of little bastard boy the hillahag, and certainly away from the reason for Stevens to be meeting with the Turks and sending Libyan arms to soemone ... and I’m betting soemone told al qaeda it would not be them but rather the moose slime brotherhood Val Jarrett works for.!