U.S. Ambassador and three others killed in Libya.

[Lemur]

I'm sorry, I thought "the reasons can only get uglier from there." Dum-dum-DUM!

If you follow the conservative-media-complex, you would think that nothing but Benghazi has happened in the last month. You would believe it is the ultimate scandal destined to pull down the mighty tower of corruption and incompetence that is the Obama administration. You would see a frenzied conservative base desperately overplaying a weak hand, in other words.

Apparently every incompetent scoundrel from the Bush 43 admin believes that Beghazigate is a get-out-of-jail-free card as well. Witness FEMA's old director, Michael Brown, using it to ... do something or another.

Former FEMA director Michael Brown, who was heavily criticized for the agency's failure to prepare for Hurricane Katrina, has criticized President Obama for responding to Hurricane Sandy too early.

In an interview with Denver Westword, Brown said, "One thing [President Obama's] gonna be asked is, why did he jump on [Hurricane Sandy] so quickly and go back to D.C. so quickly when in ... Benghazi, he went to Las Vegas? Why was this so quick? ... At some point, somebody's going to ask that question."

Brown said the president may have had a more positive effect had he waited until Sunday afternoon to address the storm instead of holding a press conference that morning.

Brown's insinuation that Obama responded too early is a gutsy move considering his role in the 2005 disaster. Brown, who was famously called "Brownie" by President George W. Bush, was seen as a symbol of government failure to protect and evacuate people from the path of Katrina.

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In an interview with Denver Westword, Brown said, "One thing [President Obama's] gonna be asked is, why did he jump on [Hurricane Sandy] so quickly and go back to D.C. so quickly when in ... Benghazi, he went to Las Vegas? Why was this so quick? ... At some point, somebody's going to ask that question."

Priceless. Too bad it wasn't televised.

[Xiahou]

I'm sorry, I thought "the reasons can only get uglier from there." Dum-dum-DUM!

I'm willing to withhold judgement on the "Who knew what when & why wasn't help sent in faster?" portion of this debacle- there could be a lot of explanations for it and many could be perfectly reasonable.

What speaks to incompetence is that they had Susan Rice & Jay Carney telling the media that the attack was a result of protests gone wild when there was little evidence of that in the first place and they continued peddling that line long after it proved false. If you're sending a surrogate out to give the administration's line on the Sunday news shows, why wouldn't you make sure they have the latest information?

The bigger issue however, is why on earth the administration thought it was a good idea to pare down diplomatic security in Libya and try to replace it with paramilitary militias, like the Feb17 Matyrs Brigade? They had a steady stream of intel that showed a deteriorating security situation in Benghazi- including a bombing that blew a 12 foot hole in the wall of the consulate on June 6. The British closed their diplomatic mission in Benghazi because it was so unsafe there- we cut security...