Good point, but what you describe doesn’t sound like a blunder, or even an oversight to me.
Willful neglect? Is that the correct term?
Call it willful neglect or whatever. Bottom line is that Gowdy turned out to be a huge disappointment. Patriotic Americans and historians would want to know what orders the political civilian leaders gave the Commander of the 6th Fleet during the crisis. It was a virtual certainty that the 6th Fleet was monitoring the situation in Benghazi and elements were steaming at flank speed to intervene. Ken H makes excellent points. For some reason Gowdy was persuaded to back off from meaningful inquires. Sad but in retrospect not surprising. No doubt he has a few foibles in his closet well known by Obama/Clinton operatives