You forgot #1. Where were the Marine Guards that were assigned to guard American Soil and who authorized their movement! This is the first hanging that needs to take place.
The public has a mistaken impression about the subject of the Marines seerving at diplomatic posts. The Marines are not stationed at an embassy for the purpose of serving as a bodyguard for an Ambassador or at a consulate to serve as a bodyguard for a consul. The Marines are assigned to an embassy to protect the intelligence asstets, communications assets, and other sensitive property of the U.S. Government.
In the special case of the benghazi facility, the State Department elected to use an unusual contractor to hire unarmed security personnel as the security detail for the facility.They were armed with some sort of batons and/or other equipment which were not firearms.
The question of whether or not the Benghazi facility should have been assigned Marines is going to be a highly controversial issue into the future. Discussions of this issue will be hampered by the maintenance of at least some confidentiality about the diplomatic relations with the Islamic militias purportedly allied with the U.S. and Ambassador Stevens’ covert mission/s.
Nonetheless, the consequences of the Obama Administration’s choices and inactions in Benghazi and elsewhere will focus on the question of why a competent and effective contingency plan was not made and/or executed for just such an eventuality when there was so much evidence in the prior months, weeks, and days prior to the terrorist attacks.
It also remains to be seen why the Obama Administration deliberately misled the families of the dead Americans and the U.S. voters in the days before the election by falsely claiming the attacks were provoked by an Internet video clip posted months earlier and made by Islamic jihadists with connections to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood while masquerading under false identities as Israeli-American Jews. Who prompted Secretary of State Hillary Clinto and UN Ambassador Rice to blame the false flag video made by Islamic jihadists pretending to be Israeli-american Jews?