Panetta Says Risk Impeded Deployment to Benghazi

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/world/africa/panetta-tells-of-monitoring-situation-in-benghazi.html?ref=africa&_r=0

Defense Secratery said that the U.S. did not send troops into Libya after the attack on September 11 because it was too risky.  The U.S. government had no idea what was actually happening on the ground.  He said they were not willing to deploy without real time information on what was happening in the country.  There was some action taken.  Panetta did, upon hearing the events on September 11, move forces closer to Libya.  All the forces that were moved, however, did not arrive in time to be any real use because of communication time delays.  The Republicans continue to question whether the attacks were handled in the necessary way.  John Boehner says that information now out in the open contradicts how the Democrats described the nature and cause of the terrorist attack.

Chris Lencioni