This "controversy" started when their "Fast and Furious" poutrage ran out of pout and evidence. This is a Faux Noise manufactured "scandal" that was meant to help Rmoney bail out of his ill-fated tweets while the Benghazi compound was under attack (he got pummeled in the corporate media for jumping the gun and trying to politicize the murders) and attempt to diminish President Obama's successes in killing bin Laden and helping encourage the "Arab Spring" and the revolution in Libya.
It's a pure Rovian game of attacking one's strength as your opponent is usually prepared to defend against something they're weak on, but not something they assume is a positive. Turn that positive into a doubt or negative and you put your opponent at a big disadvantage. A classic example is the Obama campaign's attacks on Bain...suddenly the thing Willard thought was his strongest campaign asset became a liability. This was a desperate act by rushpublicans to embarrass this administration and to make it look weak in the past campaign. They failed.
The fun part of this "scandal" is to ask a teabagger your question...I'll bet you don't get the same answer from two people and then if you probe further you'll find they have no clue what they're talking about. Just ask them to name the capital of Libya...if they say Benghazi...that tells you a lot as their credibility on the topic.
Right now the unhinged and Faux noise are grappling to find some kind of "balance" in a world shattered by a rare encounter with reality. Now the hopes are to spark some type of "controversy" to rally the disheartened...