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As I’ve posted before, the entire Benghazi operation has only nibbled around the edges. By the time all the facts emerge, Barry will be living in his beachfront estate in Hawaii, having become a multi-millionaire from giving speeches at $400,000 a pop.

So many unanswered questions, and the GOP efforts to get answers have often resembled a blind hog in search of an acorn. Here are just a few matters that remain unresolved:

- Thanks to “Dude” Vietor, we have confirmation that Zero was not in the White House situation room that night. That leads to the logical question: who was running the show? An American embassy is under attack; our ambassador is missing and someone is supposed to be in charge at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

- What were the comms that night? In this era of secure video teleconference capabilities, chat, e-mail and all the other tools of the digital age, there had to be a stream of communications between the White House, State Department, the Pentagon and military elements in Europe and the Middle East. Who was talking to whom? Based on yesterday’s testimony, we can assume that Brigadier General Lovell was present in Stuggart (AFRICOM HQ). Who else was in the “battle cab” that night, and what was said between General Ham, and his superiors in D.C.?

- Where were SecDef Panetta and General Dempsey? They coversation with the Commander-in-Chief (as part of a 5 pm, scheduled meeting on 11 September) started the “official” Washington reaction. We know that Obama was missing in action after that, but what about his defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs? As far as I can tell, there whereabouts after the 5 pm meeting have never been established.

- And what about Hillary Clinton? She was traveling in the Far East, but a cabinet official on the road has secure comm capabilities as well. There was nothing to keep her from participating in a continuous conference call, but (as far as we know), her conversations on Benghazi (on 11 September 2012) were limited to a brief phone call with the POTUS around 10 pm eastern time.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what actually transpired. All key players in the national security chain (including the President) knew the Benghazi consulate was the center of an arms-running operation to the Syrian rebels. Early reports were probably bad—in fact, no one has bothered to check on FLASH/CRITIC reporting from NSA that likely preceded the Panetta/Dempsey meeting with the president. The military advisers confirmed that it would take “a while” to mount a rescue operation, but there was also great concern about exposing the covert ops being run out of the consulate. And of course, the president was up for re-election in less than two months, and a successful terror attack in Libya went against the theme that Al Qaida was on the run.

So, the President went to his quarters; Hillary went comm out, the gang at Foggy Bottom dawdled and the Pentagon kept waiting for someone to make a decision. Meanwhile, four good men died, and the collective might of the United States of America sent a Predator drone to provide overwatch, and record the final moments of their lives.

Did I mention that Congress (as far as I can tell) has never acquired a copy of that UAV video, and a member of the drone unit told Sean Hannity—months ago—that he (and other members of his squadron) were never questioned about what they observed or recorded that night?