In a previous post, I wrote that even as the public learns details of what happened in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the American facility in Benghazi, the story of what the U.S. military did, and did not, do to aid Americans under attack remains classified. Key details about what manned and unmanned aircraft were in the region, the actions of various emergency response forces, and the deliberations of commanders from the ground up are a U.S. government secret. Pentagon officials have shared some of that information with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon and a few others, but only in classified briefings.
It may be that they don’t want to show how unprepared they were, as Byron York posits.
However, in Cairo, they received some form of a warning at least the day before. Some embassy workers were advised to stay home. Yet the Embassy there still had its perimeter walls breached and our flag pulled down.
Moreover, if the idea was to give more time to resolve the security issues, they clearly still haven’t resolved issues, as evidenced by the stabbing of the American at the Embassy in Cairo last month.