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1) Before the attack, why were requests for increased security ignored?
You failed to address this question Cardinal. Why?
2) During the attack, did Obama really give orders to relieve the consulate and, if so, who failed to carry out those orders?
You failed to address this question Cardinal. Why?
3) After the attack, who gave Susan Rice those ridiculous talking points for the Sunday morning shows?
You failed to address this question Cardinal. Why?
I've addressed these before: bad communication between agencies and departments (sadly, what else is new?), strained resources and bureaucratic red tape. Finally, there was the horrendous confusion in the immediate aftermath of the incident, thus nobody being on the same page within the Obama administration, and the one specific thing I see that Obama can clearly be criticized for.
How many more months of investigation will it take before Obama finds out what he did or failed to do?
Correction, how much more time before all the facts come in? I don't know, and neither do you.
How do you know what did or did not happen as there has been no investigative report?
I base what I say on the timelines that point to widespread communication, resource and bureaucratic problems. These things of course need to be addressed. Once an investigative report is finished we'll know more and what needs to be corrected, but until then all you'll continue to be able to do is imply through asking questions, not because of any facts you have.
FactCheck.org : Benghazi Timeline
I believe...
Irrelevant. You can't start with the motives and build out from there. You have to start with the facts first, not what you want to be true. It didn't work before the election and it won't work now.
If the assets just were not available by now we would have every single detail of how e tried very hard to respond in time. Of course assets were available. They just were not deployed.
Half true. If a country of our capabilities has a problem with strained resources, it's usually because of where they're currently deployed, as this timeline shows.
Pentagon releases official timeline of Benghazi attack - CNN.com
You failed to address the systematic lies by this regime. Rice went on five different TV shows to blame a video. Obama blamed a video and had the man arrested and kept in prison through the election.
You see lies because that's what you want to see. I see confusion as is clearly demonstrated by the timeline, which shows ever changing stories from one hour and day to the next, which was caused by everyone in the administration having a different set of facts. If Obama had handled this well he would gotten everyone in his administration on the same page and held a press conference stating, "here's what happened, we don't know a whole lot else, and we'll let you know when more facts come in." Obama has jumped the gun before, unfortunately. Maybe this time he'll finally learn his lesson.
We deserve to know way more about Obama's Benghazi Massacre and the Abandoned Four.
This is the kind of hyperbole that tells me I'm not dealing with someone particularly rational.