Republicans Admit Benghazi Fake "Scandal"

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Republicans Admit Benghazi Fake "Scandal"

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2014 Nov 22, 4:17am 5,504 views 9 comments

An investigation by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the CIA and U.S. military responded appropriately to the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, dismissing allegations that the Obama administration blocked rescue attempts during the assault or sought to mislead the public afterward.

After a two-year probe that involved the review of thousands of pages of classified documents, the panel determined that the attack could not be blamed on an intelligence failure, and that CIA security operatives â€œably and bravely assistedâ€ State Department officials who were overwhelmed at a nearby but separate diplomatic compound.

The committee also found â€œno evidence that there was either a stand down order or a denial of available air support,â€ rejecting claims that have fed persistent conspiracy theories that the U.S. military was prevented from rescuing U.S. personnel from a night-time assault that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

The House panel faulted preliminary assessments by the CIA and other agencies on what had caused the attacks and motivated militants, leading to erroneous public assertions by then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice that the assault had erupted from a spontaneous protest. The White House effort to assemble her talking points was deemed â€œflawed.â€

But overall, the panelâ€™s findings were broadly consistent with the Obama administrationâ€™s version of events. Previous investigations have reached similar conclusions, but the House committeeâ€™s report may be seen as more credible by critics of the administrationâ€™s handling of Benghazi because the panel is controlled by Republicans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-panel-finds-no-intelligence-failure-in-benghazi-attacks/2014/11/21/0749a070-71dd-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

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marcus 2014 Nov 22, 4:39am

All this really means is that they are letting it go because they believe they have other dishonest attacks against the President that they believe will get better traction than this.

Or it means that polling done by Fox news or maybe the Heritage Foundation indicated that these particular lies aren't working as well (with the right wing idiots) as they would like, and they need to find some better lies, or who knows, maybe even legitimate fact and logic based criticisms of the administration.

Do you think the right wing entertainment complex is going to apologize to Obama ?

Hahahahahahahahahahah,...ohhh yeah,...right.

HydroCabron 2014 Nov 22, 5:34am

Looks like Obama had the NSA make visits to the Republican committee members - show them a few MP4s of their visits to the local child prostitution ring.

HydroCabron 2014 Nov 22, 6:16am

Too bad the media is so liberal - I only heard about Benghazi 43 vigintillion 879 novemdecillion 443 octodecillion 171 septendecillion 388 sexdecillion 7 quindecillion 886 quatordecillion 441 tredecillion 260 duodecillion 776 undecillion 76 decillion 511 nonillion 933 octillion 855 septillion 718 sextillion 288 quintillion 610 quadrillion 322 trillion 562 billion 718 million 912 thousand 515 times.

lostand confused 2014 Nov 22, 7:01am

When will the dems admit alimony, outsized child support and other such stupid laws were fake and only there to rally their base? Or that 300 pound critters are not poor????

lostand confused 2014 Nov 22, 8:15am

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