House Republicans' Report Sheds New Light on Benghazi Attack

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NBC News:

Andrea Mitchell and Alex Moe

June 28 2016

 

After a more than two-year investigation into the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, House Republicans are set to release a lengthy report Tuesday recounting the events that led to the deaths of four American diplomats.

 

It sheds new light on the breakdown in the U.S. military's response to the attack and offers new details about why U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was at the compound in the Libyan city with only two State Department bodyguards, months after the British and others had evacuated the area.

 

NBC News obtained the first 175-page section of the full 800-page House Select Committee on Benghazi report that will be released later Tuesday. The Democratic minority released its own report Monday.

 

One section of the report seems to allege that U.S. officials fundamentally misunderstood who their allies were at the time. The Republican majority's report found that 35 Americans were saved not by a "quasi-governmental militia" as previous reports concluded, or even a group the U.S. saw as allies. Instead, the report determines that the Americans were saved by the "Libyan Military Intelligence," a group composed of military officers under the Moammar Khaddafy regime, the Libyan dictator who the U.S. helped topple just one year earlier.

 

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Democrats' Report on Benghazi Attack: Hillary Clinton Was 'Active And Engaged'
Brakkton Booker
June 27, 2016

A new report released Monday by the minority members of the House Select Committee tasked with investigating the events at a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, absolves the U.S military and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of any blame in attacks that left four Americans dead nearly four years ago.

The findings by the Democrats on the committee conclude that the Department of Defense "could not have done anything differently" on Sept. 11, 2012, that could have saved Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others.

The report adds that while State Department security at the compound was "woefully inadequate," Clinton herself "never personally denied any requests for additional security in Benghazi." Clinton was also "active and engaged" on the night of the attacks and in subsequent days, saying she was in touch with the president, the CIA director, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others in the hours following the attacks.

 

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HOUSE BENGHAZI REPORT DETAILS MILITARY, INTELLIGENCE FAILURES

 

The U.S. military never attempted to deploy any assets or troops to Benghazi during the 13-hour attack on the American consulate in 2012, according to a supplemental report released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday morning.

 

Although Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has said he ordered three support teams to deploy to Benghazi about two hours into the attack, the committee said it found no evidence that these forces were mobilized until hours after the attack ended. Military assets, such as fighter planes and armed drones never left the ground, according to the report.

 

“We are now convinced, contrary to the administration’s public claim that the military did not have time to get to Benghazi, that the administration never launched men or machines to help directly in the fight,” wrote Reps. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) and Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) in the analysis. “That is very different from what we have been told to date. And the evidence is compelling.”

 

The congressmen issued their assessment as a supplement to the long-awaited report by the Benghazi Committee. According to the analysis, the Obama administration was fixated on how to frame the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack to the public, and spent little time trying to coordinate a military response while the attack was ongoing.

 

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/house-benghazi-report-details-military-intelligence-failures/

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Obama Did Not Ask for an Intel Brief the Day After the Benghazi Attack
And other revelations from the House Select Committee's report.

Stephen F. Hayes

5:05 AM, Jun 28, 2016

 

Among the many revelations that will emerge from the voluminous majority report of the Benghazi Select Committee when it is released Tuesday is this one: Barack Obama skipped his daily intelligence briefing one day after the Benghazi attacks on September 11, 2012. The president's briefer handed a written copy of the presidential daily briefing to a White House usher and then briefed Jack Lew, who was then serving as White House chief of staff. But Obama, who sometimes avails himself of the oral briefing that is offered along the written intelligence product, did not ask for such a briefing the day after the attacks on U.S. facilities in Libya.

 

That disclosure came during the Benghazi committee's transcribed interview with the executive coordinator of Obama's presidential daily briefing (or PDB, for short), a veteran intelligence officer who rose through the ranks in Army intelligence and then the Defense Intelligence Agency before serving as the president's top briefer. It is buried deep in the committee's report, in Appendix H—a 14-page examination of how that briefer came to include an assessment in the PDB that the Benghazi attacks were likely a planned attack and not a protest gone awry. It's not unusual for Obama to skip his oral briefing, but his decision to pass on the PDB on September 12, 2012, will no doubt generate additional questions.

 

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2 Republicans release own Benghazi report faulting Hillary Clinton

Jessica Wehrman The Columbus Dispatch

Tuesday June 28, 2016

 

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Even before that, they said, her leadership was inadequate, and embassy officials were put in an untenable, dangerous situation. One diplomatic security official warned the State Department that the conditions were tantamount to a “suicide mission.” Officials reported eight acts of violence, either in Benghazi or at other diplomatic missions around the globe in the months leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev12haGD3Xk

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The Benghazi Lie in Black and White
The administration's public and private timelines of what happened are very different.
Stephen F. Hayes
5:00 AM, Jun 28, 2016

The final majority report of the Benghazi Select Committee is set to be released later Tuesday morning. Representatives Jim Jordan and Mike Pompeo have signed onto the official majority document and authored a supplemental, 51-page "additional views" report of their own.

Among the most interesting aspects of their "additional views" is a timeline that contrasts the story top Obama administration officials were telling in public with the very different story some of those same officials were sharing with one another in private emails, conversations and documents. The timeline reinforces in a compelling way what will be one of the most significant takeaways from the committee investigation: The Obama administration knowingly provided the American people a false story about the Benghazi attack, its causes and its consequences.

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Public vs. Private Timeline

 

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@Valin - this President is of the mind- If I don't acknowledge it, it isn't there- i.e. Islamic Terrorism

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Transcript

 

 

You may notice some "slight" spin by CNN.

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@Valin - this President is of the mind- If I don't acknowledge it, it isn't there- i.e. Islamic Terrorism

 

Islamic Terror? What Islamic Terror?

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