four americans -- ambassador chris stephens, state department official sean smith, navy s.e.a.l.s glen doherty, and tyrone woods. wendell goler is in honolulu where the president is vacationing. wendell? >> reporter: well, gregg, the president saidly they have no issue with "the new york times" report which as you said found no evidence that al qaeda planned the attack on the benghazi consulate. it involved fighters from different militia groups who'd benefited from nato's attacks on moammar gadhafi's troops and were as anti-american as they were anti-gada dpi. the report also says the video the obama administration blamed did play a role but michigan republican congressman mike rodders is skeptical. >> there was some level of preplanning. we know that. there was aspiration to conduct an attack by al qaeda and their affiliates in libya. we know that. the individuals on the ground talked about a planned tactical movement on the compound even this is the compound before they went to the annex. all of that was directly contradictory to what "the new york times" definitively says was an exhaustive

contractors, glen doherty and tyrone woods were killed when their post was attacked. >> a report produced for the state department investigating benghazi and security forces blamed the benghazi in pardon state department officials, criticising them for identifying conditions in the city, and approving benghazi as is diplomatic post. the panel highlighted long-standing problems in the security practices, including blurred lines of authority, a lack of accountability, no risk management model for high-threat posts or intelligent analysts, inadequate diplomatic security training and many vulnerable low-risk posts. >> fred is a former diplomatic security agent and samuel cats is an author and expert on middle eastern security issues. >> fred, you both describe in this book, create an atmosphere of a lawless city. a den of thieves and spies, where danger was present. why was the state department there and ambassador christopher stephens there. >> the mystery of why ambassador stevens was there was due to open an outdoor event for the local community. having said that, the decision to move amba