Benghazi In The Rose Garden

Republicans didn't hear what the President said in the Rose Garden.  So they made something up which aligns itself with what their candidate said when he misspoke before having the correct public
information. Apologizing to the families of those killed... is just to big a lift for a small spirit.
Officials getting killed in terror attacks on foreign soil warrant highly classified incremental steps of investigation.
Gov. Romney cannot initiate or follow through on any of these investigations. Neither can Romney surrogates. If America wants both solving, and prevention, then public minds have got to accept we won't get the details we whine for in time for Republicans to insist they are in charge of messages on foreign affairs.
Libya currently has no professional police forces aside from the former militias who deposed Qaddafi. As our professional forces distill which forces are which, there is no way our President is going to allow his responses to be guided by how politicised the criticism of his administration has become on the newly forming power structures in Mid-East countries. That is not the sort of foreign policy operative President Obama happens to be.
President Obama is a results driven leader. That general reputation of how America focuses on problems initiated abroad suits Republicans as Americans; but they aren't quite as enamored of that
reputation as part of our President's record.
We need to know why Congress refused funds for more security for foreign service personnel.
We need to be sure we don't tip our hand in public about how close we are to separating Libyan wheat from chaff.
We will eventually know whether the controversial film helped terrorists use a non-violent protest
as a piggy back in order to transform crowd anger into the impetus for an attack they'd already planned.
We need to know why in testimony before Congress, Americans who survived Benghazi said the attack would have been deadly even if a Marine detail had been on hand- but of course America uses
Marines at embassies, not consulates.
We need to know if Libya was to have secured that consulate, and if unstable countries in the region might be unable still to provide the security we normally trust countries to provide.
However- we can't know any of those things officially at the time journalism wants to insist upon. We have to know what the President can say without jeopardizing the results we need. But because
Republicans jumped the gun by responding to what had not actually happened in total, they'd like a
do over on what the President responded to in real time as tragedies unfolded in the news media.
There is no do over. And our President has said what he can say. For the sake of the families involved, who have asserted they really are being properly informed, we need to accept that Benghazi
is water under the bridge for now- even for wordsmiths.