I think he wasn't there simply because he is lazy and unfocused. He just didn't care enough to take charge.
""... I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy." Jarrett was quite sure that one of the few things that truly engaged him fully before going to the White House was writing Dreams from My Father. "He's been bored to death his whole life," she said."
So the only thing that interested him was having Bill Ayers write a book about himself. I guess the problem with Benghazi wasn't about him so what did he care.
Has anyone asked if ValJar was in the room?