To much here has been wrapped up with the emails....the point of the hearings was to find out who was responsible for the security lapse. Hil said she did not know that security was requested over 600 times nor did much of that get to her levele as she left that to her underlings. Yet none of those underlings were fired...not one. What exactly were they doing there? Why was such a small DOS team covering him? Why was there no QRF available...
On that point, stand down no stand down. I have yet to hear a clear answer that I believe because of a ton of other shit thats come out about the availability of assets. It was a long fire fight. If you look at the actual combat, the security team was smoking the shit out of the rags until the overwatch got hit by a lucky mortar. I kinda wonder what would have happened if they had survived along with Stevens, how would this have been played out in the media.