Less than three days after the attack, The Daily Beast asked all the appropriate questions: "Why weren't there Marines at the gates? Why no highly trained, Blackwater-style mercenaries? Why was the compound established at a vulnerable Libyan villa? Why did Stevens decide it was safe to travel there? Why did it take the U.S. State Department 'many, many hours' — as spokesman Victoria Nuland put it in a Wednesday briefing — to locate Stevens after the attack? What might the government have done to prevent the death of Stevens and three other diplomats?"