Benghazi, how? who? why? Let's try and make some sense of it all

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What happened in Benghazi? On Sept. 11, 2012, after night had fallen, attackers scaled the wall of a U.S. diplomatic outpost in the Libyan port city of Benghazi. Clinton would later be called upon by House committees to testify about what happened next — although at first, those details were a little murky. What we now know, from multiple congressional investigations, is this: The Benghazi compound was not heavily reinforced, and a group of attackers opened a gate, enabling dozens of armed men to enter. The men set fire to the building, filling it with smoke. U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens — who was visiting Benghazi that day — scrambled to a safe room with fellow American Sean Smith, a State Department communications specialist, after American security guards attempted and failed to evacuate them. Hours later, the two were found inside the building and rushed to a local hospital, but both died of smoke inhalation. Meanwhile, American forces from the compound, including a CIA support team who had rushed over to assist with defending against the attack, retreated to a nearby CIA annex. The annex then was attacked twice, and two more Americans were killed: CIA security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, who had been defending the building from the rooftop. Security officials who came from the Libyan capital of Tripoli, along with Libyan military troops, helped evacuate the rest of the U.S. personnel there. All told, the attack happened over the course of about eight hours at the two locations. Courtesy of NBC