Everyone seems to focus on the lies. And yes, they are problematic, but the bigger issue for me is those deaths should never have happened.
Consider this editorial from Liberal Maureen Dowd ( to give you an idea of how serious this is, it goes beyond partisan bs)
She absolutely nailed what I was thinking about.
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
The administration’s behavior before and during the attack in Benghazi, in which four Americans died, was unworthy of the greatest power on earth.
President Obama knew he was sending diplomats and their protectors into a country that was no longer a country, a land rife with fighters affiliated with Al Qaeda.
Yet in this hottest of hot spots, the State Department’s minimum security requirements were not met, requests for more security were rejected, and contingency plans were not drawn up, despite the portentous date of 9/11 and cascading warnings from the C.I.Ahttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opinio…
There is simply no excuse for a country with our capabilities to leave people undefended in an area you KNOW is a hotbed of terrorist activity.
Think of it, Maureen Dowd and Dick Cheney are in 100% agreement on this.
Let that sink in. ALL OF US should be pissed about that.