You have to start with the fact that the CIA is full of Mormons. Odd but true. Mormons do extremely well on the qualifying exams because they usually have lived overseas while on mission and have foreign language skills, plus they have never used drugs, alcohol, etc and usually have spotless records.
I have to wonder if the CIA did not use the Mormon backchannel to get to Romney and tell him something that caused him to drop this issue like a hot potato. Perhaps it was the Beck thesis, that Amb. Stevens was in charge of a weapons running operation, and the attack was blowback from a sour deal.
Maybe we had a deep undercover agent embedded with the terrorists and it was considered worth it to risk losing the Americans rather than kill the agent during a military response.
Who knows? The possibilities are endless. The one thing I am sure of is we haven't been given the whole truth, not even close. What we are still beng told, eg that the military couldn't respond, is ludicrous. They couldn't fly a freakin' plane over Libya without hours to prep it?
It's totally clear now that the administration's first line of defense, the video explanation, was a deliberate lie. The people who were responsible should be marched before congress or a grand jury and forced to explain themsleves. Will it happen? Probably not.
If this were a republican administration, journalists would be crawling all over this scandal and would have been from the getgo. Even if they smell a rat, they know it would be career suicide to go after obama. Few have the stones for that.