Quote from CaptainObvious:
Leon Panetta is going to end up taking the fall for this. The ground work is already being laid with his lame excuse of not wanting to send more people into harms way. We'll be told that Obama left it in his hands, and Panetta made the decision to not provide any help, which relieves Obama of any wrong doing. Frankly, that may be the case. While it does not excuse the idiotic policy of having people in such a precarious position to begin with, I can see how Obama can say he left this up to Panetta, and it was on Panetta to make the correct decision. If that is in fact the case, I could not fault Obama for the outcome, other than to say he should have not had them so exposed in the first place. Especially considering all the prior attacks and requests for more security.