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FreeEnterprise wrote: Well, Petraeus has come out... And pointed the finger RIGHT AT Obama...   http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/26/Petraeus-on-Benghazi-It-Wasnt-Me   Expect "journOlist" members to continue to spin in other directions... As there is an election to win.

So basically you using essentially the sam information (CIA saying they did not turn down a request for support) and cherry-picking editorials that use the denial from the CIA to infer that Obama himself denied resources. Your story says nothing about the state department, or DoD, and show nothing to confirm that such a request was even made, let alone that it was denied, or any mitigating factors for why it was allegedly denied. What we do know is from the timeline I cited that a reaction force was established and sent shortly after the attack happened, and that they were unable to locate the ambassador, who was likely killed early on by smoke inhalation due to fires cause by RPG fire. Drone coverage was there within 2 hours of the start of the attack, a computer expert was killed shortly after that at the CIA annex, and the other two contractors were killed by mortar-fire shortly after a team had already been flown into Benghazi and reached the annex. I'll grant you that if by that time an armed drone had been on-site for the last bit at the annex, maybe they could have found a verifiable target in the 11min of the mortar attack and possibly saved the last two. Stevens was dead or MIA within half an hour of the commencement of the attack, long before the unarmed drone arrived, the computer expert not long after it did. The attacks had been successfully repelled up until then, and no reports of mortar-fire before the last 11min of the fight. 

I just wanted to bump this to say that Nate Silver was almost completely spot-on with his statistical projections.