Ahmed Abu Khattala

On Tuesday during the debate, Obama told the American people that those responsible for the attack in Benghazi would be held accountable.

OBAMA: [W]e are going to find out who did this and we're going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I've said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them.

Well, we're doing an awful job of hunting them down.

From the New York Times:

Witnesses and the authorities have called Ahmed Abu Khattala one of the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission here. But just days after President Obama reasserted his vow to bring those responsible to justice, Mr. Abu Khattala spent two leisurely hours on Thursday evening at a crowded luxury hotel, sipping mango juice on a patio and scoffing at the threats coming from the American and Libyan governments.

Libya’s fledgling national army is a “national chicken,” Mr. Abu Khattala said, using an Arabic rhyme. Asked who should take responsibility for apprehending the mission’s attackers, he smirked at the idea that the weak Libyan government could possibly do it. And he accused the leaders of the United States of “playing with the emotions of the American people” and “using the consulate attack just to gather votes for their elections.”

Mr. Abu Khattala’s defiance — no authority has even questioned him about the attack, he said, and he has no plans to go into hiding — offered insight into the shadowy landscape of the self-formed militias that have come to constitute the only source of social order in Libya since the fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Why isn't this guy under arrest?

He's doing interviews!

The Obama administration sees to it that the maker of the infamous video that supposedly sparked the attack, their scapegoat, sits in jail.

Meanwhile, Abu Khattala sips mango juice on a patio of a luxury hotel.*

Sick.

*Correction: Meanwhile, Abu Khattala sips a strawberry frappe on a patior of a luxury hotel.
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UPDATE:

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: October 19, 2012

An earlier version of this article misidentified the beverage that Ahmed Abu Khattala was drinking at the hotel. It was a strawberry frappe, not mango juice, which is what he had ordered.

Not mango juice? It was a strawberry frappe???

Thank you, New York Times, for that important correction.