Now the claim is that they didn’t want compromise methods. Think about this: the NSA–NOT the CIA (it seems to me likely that “CIA” probably often actually includes NSA operatives, and they do in my understanding have direct action capability)–was likely intercepting calls for a week or two in advance, indicating an attack in the planning stages. Smart people know they listen to everything, but these are not smart people.
So the thing gets yet worse. Not only did they have live feed, but I would bet money they had hard intel before the unwashed masses started showing up to begin with.
I will reiterate my two ideas. The first is that Hillary Clinton thought her little Libyan brigade would save the day, and they either failed, or more likely betrayed her and the Ambassador outright, by not firing a shot, and by turning the Ambassador over to Al Queda.
Option two is that the murder of Stevens was planned, to prevent him from revealing a secret torture chamber, or something else, such as a program to ARM Al Queda operatives.
Option two may sound ridiculous–and maybe it is. But is it more ridiculous than denying repeated calls for enhanced security in what was plainly a dangerous environment?
In our modern world TONS of data will have been left on this thing. If it is missing, that in itself constitutes a crime. I can’t believe that the entirety of our intelligence apparatus likes Obama. Somebody out there will in the end hopefully cough up the details we need to put this together.