The Right will not let those heroes rest in peace as long as they can get mileage from their deaths. There was/is no Embassy in Benghazi, the American Embassy is in the Libyan capitol, Tripoli which is an hour's flight time away from Benghazi, on the western side of Libya, while Benghazi is on the other side of the country in the east. There was no seven hour attack anywhere in Benghazi on the night of 9/11/2012. Glen Doherty a contractor working for private security company hired by the US state department to guard Ambassador Stevens was not a member of Stevens' security detail for the Benghazi trip. Neither Glen Doherty nor Ty Woods were in the initial attack on the TMF. Doherty, former Navy Seal, was a member of the Tripoli CIA security rescue team and, once in the Benghazi CIA annex, proceeded to climb to the roof of the main building to backup his friend, Ty Woods, who had been a member of Stevens' security detail for the Benghazi trip. Eleven minutes after the Tripoli team arrived terrorists conducted a complex coordinated attack from different directions which included mortar, RPG and small arms fire. The first motor round hit the north wall while the second and third were direct hits on the roof where Doherty and Woods were positioned, the fourth motor round hit outside the annex but the fifth round was another direct hit on the roof of the main building. The three deadly mortar rounds came in a salvo that lasted one minute and nine seconds and hit within meters of each other.
The Temporary Mission Facility (TMF) was the site of the initial attack which started at approximately 21:40. The Chief of CIA security CIA's Benghazi Annex, which was about 2.4 kilometers from the TMF, was notified at 21:42 of the attack at which time he assembled and briefed the available security staff who departed the annex at approximately 21:48. They unsuccessfully tried to secure heavy weapons from militia members and came under sporadic fire on the way to the TMF. It has been confirmed the CIA annex team was at the TMF by 22:30. A search for the two missing Americans found the body of Sean Smith, a State Department Information Management Officer, but did not locate the Ambassador. Stevens, Smith and the State Department Diplomatic Security Officer who had notified the Annex Security Chief of the attack, had to evacuate the Tactical Operations Center's safe room due to debilitating smoke. Forced to crawl on hands and knees because of the smoke, the three were separated and the DSO repeatedly tried to re-enter the burning building to locate the other two but was unsuccessful. All American personnel were evacuated out of the TMF by 23:30. There were two smaller attacks on the CIA Annex, one right after they arrived at about 23:48 and one between 02:00 and 02:30. After both attacks were successfully repelled, there was a lull in the fighting of about three hours.
The State Department's Regional Security Officer (RSO) was notified of the attack on the Benghazi TMF the same time the Chief of CIA security at the Benghazi Annex had been notified. The RSO notified the CIA's security leader in Tripoli who met with the CIA's Chief of Station in Tripoli and with U.S. military officers to formulate a rescue plan. A "TRIPOLI team" made up of 5 CIA security officers and 2 U.S. military officers were on their way to the Tripoli airport no later than 45 minutes after Tripoli had been notified. Traffic congestion delayed the team's trip to the airport which took 45 minutes and the team took a charter for the one hour flight to the Benghazi airport landing at about 01:15. At the airport, confusion about the whereabouts of Ambassador Stevens and a transportation SNAFU delayed their departure from the airport by about three and a half hours. The Tripoli team departed the Benghazi airport at 04:53 and arrived at the Benghazi annex at about 05:04 and they set about reinforcing the Benghazi security.
The source for the above facts is the House Intelligence Committee report (https://intelligence.house.gov/...) which joins previous Benghazi investigations by the State Department's independent Accountability Review Board (ARB) (http://www.state.gov/...), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/...), and the House Armed Services Committee ( http://armedservices.house.gov/...) which have repeatedly debunked right-wing Benghazi myths that have persisted since the attacks, including the falsehood that a "stand down" order was given to troops stationed in Tripoli and the myth that the administration lied about the attacks having been caused by an anti-Islam YouTube video.
The Republican-led House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on July 31 to declassify its report on the deadly 2012 attacks on American facilities. The committee found no evidence of wrongdoing by the Obama administration, confirming "that no one was deliberately misled, no military assets were withheld and no stand-down order (to U.S. forces) was given," as committee member Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) explained. Ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) stressed that the "bipartisan, factual," and "definitive" report found no evidence of a scandal involving the intelligence community's talking points on the attacks:
This report shows that there was no intelligence failure surrounding the Benghazi attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other brave Americans. Our investigation found the Intelligence Community warned about an increased threat environment, but did not have specific tactical warning of an attack before it happened, Americans which is consistent with testimony that the attacks appeared to be opportunistic. It also found that a mixed group of individuals including those associated with Al-Qaeda, Qadafi loyalists and other Libyan militias participated in the attack. Additionally, the report shows there was no "stand down order" given to American personnel attempting to offer assistance that evening, and no American was left behind.
The report also shows that the process used to develop the talking points was flawed, but that the talking points reflected the conflicting intelligence assessments in the days immediately following the crisis. Finally, the report demonstrates that there was no illegal activity or illegal arms sales occurring at U.S. facilities in Benghazi. And there was absolutely no evidence, in documents or testimony, that the Intelligence Community's assessments were politically motivated in any way.
The New York Times did an excellent piece of investigative journalism the debunked the Republican Benghazi lies:
The New York Times Turns Republican Benghazi Hoax Inside Out
By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson December, 29th, 2013
http://www.politicususa.com/...
To the full length New York Times report: http://www.nytimes.com/...
All the government reports on Benghazi and the New York Times article were completed well before the Trey Gowdy "investigation" commenced. The fact that all four bipartisan government reports and an investigative journalism report came to the same conclusions that there was no cover-up, no lies, no 7 hour battle, no order to "stand down" anywhere and there were no arms sales being conducted by any American government unit in Benghazi which would lead any normally thinking American to see the Gowdy witch hunt for what it really is; a fishing expedition to try to find a "gotchya" moment on Hillary to try to sink her 2016 chances and another complete waste of American taxpayers fund just like all of Issa's investigations were.