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http://news.yahoo.com/house-intel-panel-debunks-many-benghazi-theories-213031463--politics.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.

Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, intelligence about who carried it out and why was contradictory, the report found. That led Susan Rice, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to inaccurately assert that the attack had evolved from a protest, when in fact there had been no protest. But it was intelligence analysts, not political appointees, who made the wrong call, the committee found. The report did not conclude that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people.

The House Intelligence Committee report was released with little fanfare on the Friday before Thanksgiving week. Many of its findings echo those of six previous investigations by various congressional committees and a State Department panel. The eighth Benghazi investigation is being carried out by a House Select Committee appointed in May.

The attacks in Benghazi killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and two CIA contractors, Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. A Libyan extremist, Ahmed Abu Khatalla, is facing trial on murder charges after he was captured in Libya and taken to the U.S.

In the aftermath of the attacks, Republicans criticized the Obama administration and its then-secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is expected to run for president in 2016. People in and out of government have alleged that a CIA response team was ordered to "stand down" after the State Department compound came under attack, that a military rescue was nixed, that officials intentionally downplayed the role of al-Qaida figures in the attack, and that Stevens and the CIA were involved in a secret operation to spirit weapons out of Libya and into the hands of Syrian rebels. None of that is true, according to the House Intelligence Committee report.

The report did find, however, that the State Department facility where Stevens and Smith were killed was not well-protected, and that State Department security agents knew they could not defend it from a well-armed attack. Previous reports have found that requests for security improvements were not acted upon in Washington.

"We spent thousands of hours asking questions, poring over documents, reviewing intelligence assessments, reading cables and emails, and held a total of 20 committee events and hearings," said Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., the committee's chairman, and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the ranking Democrat, in a joint statement.

"We conducted detailed interviews with senior intelligence officials from Benghazi and Tripoli as well as eight security personnel on the ground in Benghazi that night. Based on the testimony and the documents we reviewed, we concluded that all the CIA officers in Benghazi were heroes. Their actions saved lives," they said.

Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who serves on the intelligence panel and the Benghazi select committee, said, "It's my hope that this report will put to rest many of the questions that have been asked and answered yet again, and that the Benghazi Select Committee will accept these findings and instead focus its attention on the State Department's progress in securing our facilities around the world and standing up our fast response capabilities."

Some of the harshest charges have been leveled at Rice, now Obama's national security adviser, who represented the Obama administration on Sunday talk shows the weekend after the attack. Rice repeated talking points that wrongly described a protest over a video deemed offensive to Muslims.

But Rice's comments were based on faulty intelligence from multiple agencies, according to the report. Analysts received 21 reports that a protest occurred in Benghazi, the report said —14 from the Open Source Center, which reviews news reports; one from the CIA; two from the Defense Department; and four from the National Security Agency.

In the years since, some participants in the attack have said they were motivated by the video. The attackers were a mix of extremists and hangers on, the investigation found.

"To this day," the report said, "significant intelligence gaps regarding the identities, affiliations and motivations of the attackers remain."

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Posted 12 June 2014 - 09:36 AM

Every new bit of info on Benghazi adds to the truth about Benghazi. Thanks to Fox news for not letting the Benghazi fiasco get swept under the rug as other media outlets have done.

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The administration propagated the lie about it being a protest for two weeks after the attack. In spite of all the eff ups leading up to the attack we still has a chance to save those people if authorization had been given to forces close enough to get there but Barry was nowhere to be found during the attack.

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The administration propagated the lie about it being a protest for two weeks after the attack. In spite of all the eff ups leading up to the attack we still has a chance to save those people if authorization had been given to forces close enough to get there but Barry was nowhere to be found during the attack.

Didn't even bother to skim the report, huh?

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Apologies?

Tomorrow, Rush will provide solid reasoning on why the report is compromised and how it changes nothing. Apologies will not be necessary.

Take the weekend off ichy. You deserve it, besides Rush is. Have a good weekend.

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Apologies?

You expect too much from the wingnuts.

Did Obama and Susan Rice apologize for 5 Sunday morning t.v. show appearances and weeks of overt lying about the attack being brought on by a YouTube video ?

This is nothing but a standard white washing of the matter, to promote the competence of the Imperial Federal Govt. The status quo must be maintained. No matter what.

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Apologies?

Tomorrow, Rush will provide solid reasoning on why the report is compromised and how it changes nothing. Apologies will not be necessary.

Take the weekend off ichy. You deserve it, besides Rush is. Have a good weekend.

In other words, the talking points haven't been delivered yet.

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Apologies?

Tomorrow, Rush will provide solid reasoning on why the report is compromised and how it changes nothing. Apologies will not be necessary.

Take the weekend off ichy. You deserve it, besides Rush is. Have a good weekend.

In other words, the talking points haven't been delivered yet.

At least we ALL have darn good reasons for trusting EVERYONE in this admin implicitly. They have never even entertained the idea of lying to gain a political advantage. :nopityA:

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies. Even Ben Rhodes admitted that the talking points were developed to avoid the appearance of broader policy failures in the region.

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies.

So, the report is wrong? Is this still a "scandal"?

Are you using your extreme right wing superpower, the ability to deny reality?

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies.

So, the report is wrong? Is this still a "scandal"?

Are you using your extreme right wing superpower, the ability to deny reality?

The report was primarily concerned with finding wrong doing the night of the invasion. None was found. That's not what Im talking about here. I knew it was just a matter of time before you fell in line with the other lemmings to voice your support.

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies.

So, the report is wrong? Is this still a "scandal"?

Are you using your extreme right wing superpower, the ability to deny reality?

The report was primarily concerned with finding wrong doing the night of the invasion. None was found. That's not what Im talking about here. I knew it was just a matter of time before you fell in line with the other lemmings to voice your support.

The true lemming speaks.

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies.

So, the report is wrong? Is this still a "scandal"?

Are you using your extreme right wing superpower, the ability to deny reality?

The report was primarily concerned with finding wrong doing the night of the invasion. None was found. That's not what Im talking about here. I knew it was just a matter of time before you fell in line with the other lemmings to voice your support.

The true lemming speaks.

yeah, I simply roll over and unquestionably take the word of an admin that has been caught lying SO MANY times it is unbelievable they're able to maintain a straight face when they're caught and they deny it. They've done this so many times it has become a real clown show for a group of thugs who promise the most transparent admin in history.What an unbelievable crock and you fools lay down for them with predictable aplomb everyday!

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies.

So, the report is wrong? Is this still a "scandal"?

Are you using your extreme right wing superpower, the ability to deny reality?

The report was primarily concerned with finding wrong doing the night of the invasion. None was found. That's not what Im talking about here. I knew it was just a matter of time before you fell in line with the other lemmings to voice your support.

I just asked you some questions. As usual, you ignore them, deflect, and attack me. I'm beginning to think, you don't take my questions seriously?

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies.

So, the report is wrong? Is this still a "scandal"?

Are you using your extreme right wing superpower, the ability to deny reality?

The report was primarily concerned with finding wrong doing the night of the invasion. None was found. That's not what Im talking about here. I knew it was just a matter of time before you fell in line with the other lemmings to voice your support.

I just asked you some questions. As usual, you ignore them, deflect, and attack me. I'm beginning to think, you don't take my questions seriously?

your questions were smart ass attempts at ridicule. Heres a tip, if you were as smart as you pretend, you wouldn't waste so much of your time in this obscure forum trolling.

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies.

So, the report is wrong? Is this still a "scandal"?

Are you using your extreme right wing superpower, the ability to deny reality?

The report was primarily concerned with finding wrong doing the night of the invasion. None was found. That's not what Im talking about here. I knew it was just a matter of time before you fell in line with the other lemmings to voice your support.

I just asked you some questions. As usual, you ignore them, deflect, and attack me. I'm beginning to think, you don't take my questions seriously?

your questions were smart ass attempts at ridicule. Heres a tip, if you were as smart as you pretend, you wouldn't waste so much of your time in this obscure forum trolling.

Translation-- obscure forum trolling is Blue's gig-- get off his lawn!

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies.

So, the report is wrong? Is this still a "scandal"?

Are you using your extreme right wing superpower, the ability to deny reality?

The report was primarily concerned with finding wrong doing the night of the invasion. None was found. That's not what Im talking about here. I knew it was just a matter of time before you fell in line with the other lemmings to voice your support.

I just asked you some questions. As usual, you ignore them, deflect, and attack me. I'm beginning to think, you don't take my questions seriously?

your questions were smart ass attempts at ridicule. Heres a tip, if you were as smart as you pretend, you wouldn't waste so much of your time in this obscure forum trolling.

Why not? What should I be doing? Are you suggesting an inverse relationship between intelligence and post count?
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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ...come on. Lighten up. The GOP has the power now... :-)

Yeah! And their report refutes their talking points.

So, let me get this straight. Susan Rice, BHO and Hillary Clinton actually DID NOT go on various programs and claim repeatedly that the episode was the result of a spontaneous reaction to a video on the home stretch of a reelection campaign that had been milking the meme.."Al Qaeda has been decimated, Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive " for months and months? That's not lying to gain political advantage? Those talking points were crafted by WH staffers and were purely political lies.

So, the report is wrong? Is this still a "scandal"?

Are you using your extreme right wing superpower, the ability to deny reality?

The report was primarily concerned with finding wrong doing the night of the invasion. None was found. That's not what Im talking about here. I knew it was just a matter of time before you fell in line with the other lemmings to voice your support.

I just asked you some questions. As usual, you ignore them, deflect, and attack me. I'm beginning to think, you don't take my questions seriously?

your questions were smart ass attempts at ridicule. Heres a tip, if you were as smart as you pretend, you wouldn't waste so much of your time in this obscure forum trolling.

Why not? What should I be doing? Are you suggesting an inverse relationship between intelligence and post count?

A couple of those words are a little big for Blue.

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I guess the report didn't have anything to say about this either.

"All I really know is, Hillary lied, Hillary lied and all those people at the medal ceremony, including President Obama, who came up to me and Hillary came up to me and Panetta came up to me, Biden came up to me. They all looked at me within two inches of my face and lied to me and told me it was the video that did it. Including Susan [Rice]--she came up to me too--who said it was the video. And then they promised me that they would check into it and find out all the details and get back to me. And nobody, nobody, ever got back to me "

- Pat Smith , mother of fallen US Foreign Services officer, Sean Smith

They didn't check back w/ her because no one cared. It wasn't important to them. Getting Obama re-elected was ALL that mattered. And the cover story about the video, and getting the man behind the video, was job 1 for this gang of imbeciles.

Hillary left office, and I guess that " promise " to find who did this simply became null and void, huh?

Obama got re-elected. Mission accomplished.

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