[Son House]

Was Panetta asked if there was any order to send help? And if yes, why didn’t he follow orders?

TRANSCRIPT: Presidential debate on foreign policy at Lynn University
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/22/transcript-presidential-debate-on-foreign-policy-at-lynn-university/

“Now with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way;”

[Stayfree]

“Now with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way;”

In other words we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm's way and that they would stay that way until they were all dead and could not testify about what they were doing there in the first place!