the way, because the regime was giving us intelligence on the jihadists in places like benghazi and derno. i say under false preespecially thes because without congressional authorization, the president purported to be operating under the a u.n. mandate, but that only called for the protection of civilians. he used it as a pretext to make war on the regime. he followed that up, and this is really astounding and frightening, with months of not providing adequate security for people who were mysteriously, u.s. officials who were mysteriously assigned to benghazi which is one of most dangerous places on the planet for americans. it was one of the leading launch points for jihadists who went to iraq to the make war on our troops there. every other country and certainly the brits had the good sense to reduce or pull their people out of benghazi if they were foolish enough to have them there in the first place. we not only left ours there, we continued to provide them with inadequate security and then reduced the security even after the very i'm sorrylation that was attack -- i'm sorrylation th