Were the four people killed at Benghazi employees of the CIA or the State Department?

[kentuck]

Would it make any difference?

And if they were CIA employees, would not their jobs be just a little more "insecure"?

Were they in a CIA safehouse when killed or were they in the Embassy? Or was it someplace else?

It is my understanding that the Ambassador was not afraid to take gambles. He preferred working amongst the people? Has anyone else heard that?

I ask these questions because I have heard no one address them??

[dkf]

1. Woods and Doherty were contractors. Smith and the Ambassador were State Dept.

[magellan]

2. Two, Doherty and Woods, were security contractors for the State Dept

Ambassador Stevens and Information Management Officer Sean Smith were directly employed by the State Dept (Smith was with the US Foreign Service, which is under the purview of State).

So technically, all worked for State. Not CIA. However, Doherty and Woods were at the CIA annex in Benghazi when they were killed. (I've previously read here that it isn't unusual to find CIA personnel at diplomatic missions and vice versa.)

Stevens and Smith were in a safe room in the Benghazi Consulate (not embassy).

According to reports, Ambassador Stevens was very much someone who liked to get to know the people and culture wherever he was. The Libyans held him in high regard for this quality and mourned his death.

[Aerows]

3. It was a CIA operation

Talking about it, period, could compromise National Security, that's why it is so ludicrous that Congresspersons are trying to stir the pot. They know this better than anyone. They waited a while so that public attention could wane from the fact that it was a CIA operation after they inadvertently revealed it.

This is all a horse shit, three-ring circus.