Huge Benghazi bombshell -- Obama actually in trouble now
GOP Intel Report Debunks Its Own Party's Nutty Benghazi Theories
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 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.
"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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So that's the seventh investigation that found nothing. The Pentagon, the intelligence agencies and now the Republicans several times have all found no evidence of any governmental wrongdoing. But never mind, the GOP are setting up an eighth inquiry. I'm sure they'll eventually find some evidence.
Of course this is just the liberal media's point of view on this report. Here is the Fox News version of this story :
A leading Republican wants to expand the House investigation into the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack by adding a Senate probe, as a new House Intelligence Committee report Friday concluded that the initial CIA assessment found no demonstrations prior to the assault and a primary purpose of the CIA operation in eastern Libya was to track the movement of weapons to Syria.
The report described the attack as "complex" with the attackers affiliated with Al Qaeda. It also said the initial CIA assessment concluded there were no demonstrations outside the State Department Consulate in Eastern Libya.
Referring to the House Select committee Chairman, and the Democratic ranking member, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, said the current House investigation should be expanded.
"(Republican) Trey Gowdy and (Democrat) Elijah Cummings have done a good job,” he said. “I can't imagine the U.S. Senate not wanting to be a part of a joint select committee. We'll bootstrap to what you've done, but we want to be part of discussion," Graham told Fox News. "What I would suggest to (incoming Senate majority leader) Mitch McConnell is to call up Speaker Boehner and say 'Listen, we want to be part of this’.".........................
CIA gathered intelligence on weapons to Syria: Benghazi report | Fox News
Re: Huge Benghazi bombshell -- Obama actually in trouble now
Talking Points Memo is a SMIDGE liberal and the "data" provided in the article amounts to nothing more than a 4 year old saying "Nuh uh!" in response to an argument.
Typical
Petulant
Liberal
Bullshit
Re: Huge Benghazi bombshell -- Obama actually in trouble now
Kirkland, why do you insist on having your nose up the ads of America. The Bangahzi response was bungled, pure and simple.
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You know what else hasn't been solved?
WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN THIS SHIT WAS GOING DOWN?!?!?!
Why hasn't that been solved? He's Obama and he can do what he wants
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El Kabong
Talking Points Memo is a SMIDGE liberal and the "data" provided in the article amounts to nothing more than a 4 year old saying "Nuh uh!" in response to an argument.
Typical
Petulant
Liberal
Bullshit
It's an Associated Press article. AP are the world's biggest press operation, tens of thousand of papers worldwide print their articles. I read this article in the very conservative Wall Street Journal but they have a paywall so I had to link it from elsewhere. If you google the first few lines you can read it from any of hundreds of conservative and liberal newspapers who printed the exact-same article.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that the fact it's an AP article and the facts and evidence in the article all fell off the back of your little shelf before you wrote your reply otherwise, to borrow a phrase, your reply looks like a petulant four year old saying "nuh uh".
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El Kabong
You know what else hasn't been solved?
WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN THIS SHIT WAS GOING DOWN?!?!?!
Why hasn't that been solved? He's Obama and he can do what he wants
Even the craziest of the crazy GOP congessscritters aren't going to bother with the really ridiculous conspiracy theories that are out there. They haven't bothered investigating why a plane didn't really hit the Pentagon either.
Keep taking the meds baby.
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Kirkland, why do you insist on having your nose up the ads of America. The Bangahzi response was bungled, pure and simple.
I pay taxes over there and the idiots that govern you directly affect me and what I do for a living. So I'm entitled to an opinion.
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El Kabong
You know what else hasn't been solved?
WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN THIS SHIT WAS GOING DOWN?!?!?!
Why hasn't that been solved? He's Obama and he can do what he wants
Even the craziest of the crazy GOP congessscritters aren't going to bother with the really ridiculous conspiracy theories that are out there.
They haven't bothered investigating why a plane didn't really hit the Pentagon either.
Keep taking the meds baby.
So do you use Reynolds Wrap or some generic aluminum foil to make your hats?
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El Kabong
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Originally Posted by
Kirkland Laing
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Originally Posted by
El Kabong
You know what else hasn't been solved?
WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN THIS SHIT WAS GOING DOWN?!?!?!
Why hasn't that been solved? He's Obama and he can do what he wants
Even the craziest of the crazy GOP congessscritters aren't going to bother with the really ridiculous conspiracy theories that are out there.
They haven't bothered investigating why a plane didn't really hit the Pentagon either.
Keep taking the meds baby.
So do you use Reynolds Wrap or some generic aluminum foil to make your hats?
Not for the first time you managed to misread what I wrote. What I'm saying is that your crazy Kenyan-left-them-there-to-die theory is on a par of whackadoodleness with the people who think a plane didn't hit the Pentagon.
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walrus
Kirkland, why do you insist on having your nose up the ads of America. The Bangahzi response was bungled, pure and simple.
I pay taxes over there and the idiots that govern you directly affect me and what I do for a living. So I'm entitled to an opinion.
Kirk, you are just like me, you may pay taxes here but that doesn't mean they give a shit what we think.
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Of course this is just the liberal media's point of view on this report. Here is the Fox News version of this story :
So the Austrailian Rupert Murdoch has the (real) America's POV? His boy Roger Ailes was once down with the Birch Society that openly advocated Klansmanship in the 1960's...and those guys represent the (real) view of what went down?
The same FOX that started out as Op-ed? Opinionated Editorial-ism..is now Fair and Balanced, right?
I'm still waiting on them to uncover Larry Silverstein's story on how he knew to (BUY) the World Trade Ceneter with a caveat---he would be free to pay a single dime on it...not if a natural disaster occurred.
But he had a clause that stated---if a plane hits it (WTC) not only does he not have to pay for them, but he made billions on the insurance.
Still waiting on FOX Op-ed to tell us how the Koch Brothers father got his millions under Joseph Stalin...a Communist.
If FOX did a story on something other than dividing American into Liberal vs Conservative...I might think they have something to offer on the Benghazi...so-called scandal...
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Of course this is just the liberal media's point of view on this report. Here is the Fox News version of this story :
So the Austrailian Rupert Murdoch has the (real) America's POV? His boy Roger Ailes was once down with the Birch Society that openly advocated Klansmanship in the 1960's...and those guys represent the (real) view of what went down?
The same FOX that started out as Op-ed? Opinionated Editorial-ism..is now Fair and Balanced, right?
I'm still waiting on them to uncover Larry Silverstein's story on how he knew to (BUY) the World Trade Ceneter with a caveat---he would be free to pay a single dime on it...not if a natural disaster occurred.
But he had a clause that stated---if a plane hits it (WTC) not only does he not have to pay for them, but he made billions on the insurance.
Still waiting on FOX Op-ed to tell us how the Koch Brothers father got his millions under Joseph Stalin...a Communist.
If FOX did a story on something other than dividing American into Liberal vs Conservative...I might think they have something to offer on the Benghazi...so-called scandal...
I see people quoting the AP but I didn't see anyone referring to FOX. Perhaps it was earlier in the thread.
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walrus
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Kirkland Laing
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walrus
Kirkland, why do you insist on having your nose up the ads of America. The Bangahzi response was bungled, pure and simple.
I pay taxes over there and the idiots that govern you directly affect me and what I do for a living. So I'm entitled to an opinion.
Kirk, you are just like me, you may pay taxes here but that doesn't mean they give a shit what we think.
Yes but they can't stop us having opinions, can they?
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walrus
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SlimTrae
Of course this is just the liberal media's point of view on this report. Here is the Fox News version of this story :
So the Austrailian Rupert Murdoch has the (real) America's POV? His boy Roger Ailes was once down with the Birch Society that openly advocated Klansmanship in the 1960's...and those guys represent the (real) view of what went down?
The same FOX that started out as Op-ed? Opinionated Editorial-ism..is now Fair and Balanced, right?
I'm still waiting on them to uncover Larry Silverstein's story on how he knew to (BUY) the World Trade Ceneter with a caveat---he would be free to pay a single dime on it...not if a natural disaster occurred.
But he had a clause that stated---if a plane hits it (WTC) not only does he not have to pay for them, but he made billions on the insurance.
Still waiting on FOX Op-ed to tell us how the Koch Brothers father got his millions under Joseph Stalin...a Communist.
If FOX did a story on something other than dividing American into Liberal vs Conservative...I might think they have something to offer on the Benghazi...so-called scandal...
I see people quoting the AP but I didn't see anyone referring to FOX. Perhaps it was earlier in the thread.
yes sir:
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Above the last paragraph.
Just before.... A leading Republican wants to expand