My overall impression, after seeing the whole conference and reading much of the live thread, is that Cameron was a prop of sorts for a political diatribe by the president.
The whole question of Syria, ostensibly the reason for Cameron to be there, went nowhere. Britain has revised its guidelines to allow technical assistance? Whoopy doo. Big news.
No, this was to complete the cheesy fabric of lies about Benghazi and score points for the 2014 elections.
It was the talking-points issue that was described by saying “there’s no there there.” Take out the issue of the talking points and make it disappear and you have eliminated the entire controversy over our government’s role and coverup and what the reasons for those things might be.
Also, a general observation, which includes the Dem remarks at the hearings: The more someone prates about the goal being to make sure such a thing never happens again, the more they are getting ready to launch a political attack on the Republicans and the whistleblowers.
If we go into Syria in a stronger way very soon, then I’m wrong, and it really was about Syria, getting the public in US and UK ready for more intervention. But somehow I don’t think so.
Obama is right, the talking points ARE a sideshow. There would not have been a need for talking points if one of our most dangerous consulate posts in the world had not been left intentinally indefensible and an easy OPEN target for terrorists, ON A TUESDAY OF 9/11. Repeated pleas for more security were left unanswered, for months. Yet a US ambassador, who was officially scheduled for Bengazi in October, had his schedule moved up before September 30th by Clinton, because she wanted a permanent post there, something no one knew of. The next issue is WHY the lies and exaggerations for not sending a rescue team that night, there is not one coherent statement that has been given. We hear it would have taken seven hours, three hours, fifteen hours, no refueling capability, no teams available, no fly zone, no intelligence as to the situation. THE TALKING POINTS ARE A SIDESHOW, the first and only truth from this liars mouth.