Tonight on CNN Anderson Cooper addressed the controversy about the use of Ambassador Steven’s Journal in their reporting of the Benghazi Slaughter.  (looking for video)

Essentially he stated the Journal was found 3 days after the 9-11 attack and was only used because the State Department was presenting a provably false narrative from what investigative facts were known.   Cooper stated “the Benghazi Consulate was operating under an exemption from established security protocols”.

In addition the larger issue of an unsecured Embassy Consulate was drawn into the discussion with Cooper’s introduction of security analysts Fran Townsend and Bob Baer.

Townsend shared her concern that the integrity of the “crime scene” was compromised from the outset, and no-one has, perhaps even yet, coordinated to secure the consulate grounds.    Robert Baer shared that other documents have already been compromised including cryptography, confidential files, and complete control has been lost.   The loss of control is what Baer feels spearheaded the angry response to CNN’s reporting from the State Dept.

To quote Robert Baer “no embassy has been compromised to this extent since Teheran in 1979”.

Both Townsend and Baer spoke to an even larger issue of intelligence offices throughout the entire Mid-East region will now be positioned into a forced “blindness”; where no intelligence officers can safely leave their compounds and yet no individual national asset would dare attempt entry into a US compound.

In summary, both Townsend and Baer bring up structurally sound points about how the State Department failure in Benghazi is being compounded by the overarching policy failure even after the tragedy.

It sounds like much more on this is yet to be divulged.    I have a feeling congressional hearings will be an outcome of all this face-saving positioning.