[TigersEye]

It was a setup and it began months before the attack.

• Numerous requests for added security denied.
• Security scaled back from inadequate to less than inadequate.
• Protocols for at-risk facilities by-passed.
• F.E.S.T cut out of loop by WH.
• Rescue force in Tripoli ordered to stand down.
• Gen. Ham never receives 'go' order for forces ready to go at Sigonella, Aviano, Germany, Croatia and other bases with in-extremis forces.
• Standard Marine guard for diplomatic missions replaced by poorly funded British contractor and local Feb. 17th Martyrs Brigade with Al-Qaeda ties.

Some one set them up the Al-Qaeda bomb!

[Professional]

Were the Embassy staff in on the gig, were they too complicit in the illegal operations? Or were those folks good guys, left to die?