I can disbelieve the mother not because I believe she is lying, but because she is a bereaved mother who wants somebody to blame, which is understandable, and would need more information than what I have to evaluate the facts.
That does not mean that I believe Hillary’s version, that it was all over a video and she really did try to save those poor men, but just then she fell and hit her head, and it doesn’t make any difference at this point if she’s guilty. She’s lying and she’s covering up, and she’s fallen and hit her head too many times if she says arrogant things like that out loud on TV.
But that does not establish what the truth is. At minimum, she is guilty of letting an ambassador and three servicemen get butchered without lifting a finger to cover up her transfer of shoulder-fired Surface to Air missiles to terrorists in Syria, and that might be what she’s lying to cover up. But it does not follow from that that she was complicit in their murder, other than by a failure to act. It would have been in her interest for Stevens to succeed in repurchasing the missiles she stupidly put in the wrong hands. Him being murdered would not help her cover up that act. So for those reasons, I’m skeptical, and would like to see more info.
That's the misunderstanding. It was not a "failure to act".
We know it made it to the situation room. Therefore, it was an intentional decision not to act.
This cannot be written off as a "Omigosh...we didn't know anything was going down...so we failed to act."