re: #12 Obdicut

How do you know it could have been prevented?

1) Getting a flash precedence message out - at the least.
2) Providing security for the Ambassador a) particularly that day and b) particularly in that area.
3) Ensuring the Consulate was adequately hardened.

I recall, some time back, the “What did they know and when did the know it” mantra being all the rage and demands for Administration officials to be paraded before many committees and be grilled along these lines….and dissent being the highest form of patriotism.

What has changed?