Serious LACK of seriousness about security there. And a lot of signs that trouble was brewing (prior attacks, AQ video, etc). This is the kind “at dawn we slept” stuff that lefties raked Bush over the coals with. In fact the NYTimes was doing it just days ago about original 9/11.
Check this out:
“Go figure that a jihadist group that had targeted the consulate before might try something on 9/11, just as the leader of Al Qaeda was putting out a message eulogizing one of AQ’s Libyan capos. The signs were there; one of the Marines at the consulate apparently even saw Libyan “security” taking photos of the compound beforehand. What did the State Department do to prepare? Why are Marines only being sent now, after the fact, to beef up security? Why was there no evacuation plan in place? Why, apparently, didn’t Obama attend any of his daily intel briefings this week with the anniversary of 9/11 bearing down? Why did his campaign move more quickly to condemn Romney for his statement than the White House did to condemn the mob activity in Cairo and Benghazi? Why do these questions only seem to get asked of presidents from the party disfavored by the concern trolls we call reporters?”
It wasn’t a Marine at the consulate who mentioned “police” taking photos of their location. It was the victim Sean (can’t recall his last name) who posted that. He was a well known “gamer” on a game site and made the post to them. His last post went something like this “Well if we don’t die tonight...I saw one of their ‘police’ taking photos of us”. That was from an earlier thread. Another earlier thread confirmed, from the Marines themselves, there were no Marines on site.
All your questions are excellent and need answers. We’re only 24 hours into this. I suspect over the next several days people in high places will begin asking their own questions. It’s unavoidable. There’s just too much that doesn’t make sense. This is a big one. Monumental. Things like picking on Romney, movies that inflame the rabble and such, just can’t compete with the enormity of this debacle. And I think we, here, can be part of the forefront of those questions.