State Department Officials testified in Congress that their goal was to “normalize” the environment or words to that effect.
Translation: don’t assign security based on reality, but on what you wish was reality.
Well, I can somewhat understand that if relations were already normalized. Have a real problem thinking that they could essentially normalize without reciprocal actions by the Libyan Government (which did not really exist yet).
If that was really the case, just what the hell were they thinking!