Foreign Policy

My suspicion that the two former Navy SEALs killed in the Benghazi attack were CIA agents seems confirmed by this report.

"The 'annexe' to the U.S. consulate in Benghazi which was attacked by militants last month was a CIA building, it has been revealed.
The intelligence base, which has previously been described only as a 'safe house', was the building which two Navy SEALs were defending when they died in the terrorist raid.
It was around a mile from the consulate where ambassador Chris Stevens and diplomat Sean Smith were killed on the night of September 11."

But we still don't know why US forces didn't mount a rescue or at least provide air support.

"It is unclear exactly how many CIA operatives were stationed at the base, but officials said that two aircraft were required to lift all agents and diplomats out of Benghazi.

Two weeks ago, officials from the State Department speaking at a congressional hearing exhibited a map of Benghazi with the CIA station marked on it, but were asked to remove the map."

I'm telling you, there is more to this than meets the eye. For example:

"On Saturday, Gary Berntsen told CBS News that U.S. military officials had been able to watch the attack through unmanned aerial drones in the sky above Benghazi, and criticised them for being too slow to respond.

'They stood, and they watched, and our people died,' he said.

Defense Department officials considered sending troops in to rescue the ambassador and staff, but ultimately decided not to."

But this is inconsistent with claims the battle raged for hours. This is sounds like a cover-up too, people being thrown under the bus. Somebody chose to let these people die, almost as if they were set up to be killed. If the complex housed so many agents and diplomats it took two aircraft to carry them all, where were they? Why was the ambassador in Benghazi instead of at the embassy in Tripoli?

"On August 2, six weeks before Stevens was killed, he requested 'protective detail bodyguard' positions, calling the security situation in Libya 'unpredictable, volatile and violent.'
A month earlier, he requested that the State Department extend his tour of duty personnel, which is a 16-man temporary security team trained in combating terrorism. The request was denied and the security team left on August 8.
Stevens had asked for the security team to stay through mid-September.
Colonel Andrew Wood, the leader of the security team that left Libya in the weeks before the terror attack, told CBS News that Stevens fought hard against losing the team.
'It was quite a degree of frustration on their part,' he said. 'They were - I guess you could say - clenched-fist over the whole issue.

The White House maintained publicly for a week that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya was a spontaneous mob upset about an anti-Islam video, even though it has now been revealed that they were informed within 24 hours of the attack that it was planned and carried out by militants."

Did the US assassinate him? Some scenario like this would explain why Romney refused to go after Obama about Benghazi given that was the first question of tonight's debate. Somebody briefed Romney about what really was going on and told him to shut up about it. With every new piece of information that comes out, this smells worse and worse.