Benghazi Report: Obama Administration Failed to Protect Americans in Benghazi Clinton and the State Department acted in a “shameful” manner. By Debra Heine
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The House Select Committee on Benghazi released it long-awaited report on the 2012 terrorist attack Tuesday morning, detailing an array of administration deceptions, miscues and blunders. Among the bombshells to come out in the 800-page document is the conclusion that the Americans were saved by Gaddafi’s “Libyan Military Intelligence” — not a “quasi-governmental militia” as previous reports had found.
“There were only three assets that ever made it to Benghazi; two unarmed drones and the team from Tripoli who deployed themselves. They weren’t ordered to go; they deployed themselves,” Chairman Trey Gowdy said during today’s press conference.
Glen Doherty was on that plane from Tripoli to Benghazi and Glen Doherty not only flew from Tripoli to the Benghazi, but he negotiated at the airport with Libyans that were supposed to be our friends to get to the annex so he could help defend that facility and he got there just in time to join his fellow Navy SEAL, Tyrone Woods, minutes before they both died.
The report also concluded that Hillary Clinton and other administration officials pushed the video explanation for Benghazi despite knowing the truth because eyewitness accounts were immediately available.
Republicans on the committee charge that Clinton and the State Department acted in a “shameful” manner in refusing to hand over requested emails from her private email server and pointed out that President Barack Obama skipped his daily intelligence briefing one day after the attacks.
The report also said that the investigation by the so-called Accountability Review Board was tainted by the influence of Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills.
Questions pertaining to a possible weapons trafficking program that may have shipped arms from Benghazi to Syria went unanswered because the National Security Council would not allow the House Benghazi Committee to review information about possible U.S. covert action in Libya.
The report chose not to draw conclusions against Hillary Clinton, opting to let the American people read the report and decide for themselves because the House resolution to form the committee and investigate Benghazi had nothing to do with 2016 presidential politics, Chairman Trey Gowdy said during the Benghazi Committee’s press conference Tuesday morning.
A separate report by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) highlights findings that they believe demonstrate that Secretary Clinton put politics ahead of the Americans in Benghazi. Pompeo said during the presser that Clinton’s leadership during the crisis was “morally reprehensible.”
The Democrats have charged since the beginning of the investigation that Republicans on the committee had politicized the investigation, yet in their 339-page report, released yesterday, Donald Trump, the Republican presumptive nominee is mentioned 23 times — more than the combined number of references to Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, the two former Navy SEALs who were killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks. In their report, the Democrats also mistakenly released a transcript confirming a big Media Matters payout to Clinton crony Sidney Blumenthal.
Stonewalling by the Obama administration — especially the State Department — delayed the investigation for months, Republicans assert.
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