I can't imagine "sensitive" documents and lists of Libyan contacts would be held at a consulate, rather than a more secure embassy. Consulates generally only handle routine paperwork-requests for visas and the like.

the place in Bengazi trying to make sure al Qaeda doesn't grow there. I would think that would be the main thing they are doing there right now. I would put it ahead of trade in importance to the American foreign policy in Lybia.

But not at a consulate. Consulates aren't as secure as an embassy, often they're just an office. And they aren't US soil, as an embassy. Any local official can drum up a pretext to search a consulate-they cannot at an embassy. If there was sensitive papers and intelligence being stored at the consulate, then the ambassador and staff were stupid and reckless.

I agree. We have to consider the source of this story.

Libya is still in a civil war. It is surprising security was so lax.

Still, from all indications the attack was by trained and heavily weaponed soldiers. Only a large group of Marines would be able to turn back such an attack.

This was no hastily organized plain-citizen revolt. And we will never know just how much intelligence was lost.

I can't believe the administration and the media is giving the video producer so much airtime. It's obviously a bogus political ploy to keep everyone from questioning our stupid ME foreign policy. Why haven't people been spending more time in intelligence briefings, who knew about the security threats before the attacks, why was Amb. Stevens going to meetings without a single member of a security detail?

And finally, why is all of this happening if Obama was supposed to be able to change the narrative in ME relations due to his "unique" background?

Thankfully journalists are finally starting to ask a few decent questions.