The Republicans should have questioned the Commander of the 6th Fleet as to who gave the order to stand down. The 6th Fleet , maintained in the Med at a cost of over $10 billion/year was no doubt monitoring the situation in Benghazi and would under normal circumstances its ships should have been steaming at flank speed toward Benghazi and the on board Marines and Seals should have been preparing to intervene. Someone very high in the Administration ordered them to stand down. Who and why?
No order to stand down was needed. Only the U S president can give the order to cross an international border with military force without the permission of that country’s leader. So the question all along should have been ...where was Obama during this time period? (Sleeping?) Why wasn’t the required permission granted? Every time Obama hears someone ask who gave the non-existent stand down order, he probably just smiles.