The resources were available. They were just not deployed.
No funding issues.
You have to make things short and succinct for these people.
No funding issues.
This was in fact explicitly confirmed by State Dept. personnel during the Benghazi hearings. I remember watching it. I'll bet it's on You Tube somewhere -- maybe some helpful FReeper can supply a link (which is the sort of thing I think the orig. poster is looking for.) I'd search myself, but I'm really only on FR this afternoon for a quick skim of what's going on... It's back out to my shop in a couple minutes.