"What did the president know, and where the hell was he?"

Deroy Murdock writes,

So, while al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists slaughtered U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, Obama evidently failed to drop by the Situation Room — where even Tommy “Dude” Vietor managed to present himself. As the attack roared on until about 11:15 PM Washington time, neither Panetta nor Dempsey heard from Obama.

Aloof and detached, the commander-in-chief was elsewhere in the White House. Perhaps something was more pressing than preventing — or at least observing — the assassinations of four American government officials at the hands of al-Qaeda franchisees.

With any luck, Congress’s brand-new select committee on Benghazi — chaired by tungsten-tough former federal prosecutor and current U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) — will exhume the answer to this question: What did the president know and where the hell was he?