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The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, has concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, said Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, the second-ranking Democrat on the committee.
Thompson said the report "confirms that no one was deliberately misled, no military assets were withheld and no stand-down order (to U.S. forces) was given.
Meanwhile, the GOP House leadership has given the House Committee on Benghazi $3.3 million of our taxpayer dollars so they can continue the "investigation." Hearings resume in September. Because, you know, there's nothing of importance happening in the country that needs their attention.
This is what gerrymandered districts gets us. We have at least two more years of this nonsense.
I thought all the controversy was afterward, not the items mentioned in the article. The stand-down and related talk was all by the victims' families and a few others. What I recall was that it was the idiotic video excuse and downplay of terrorism that was the real "Benghazigate" controversy, no?
I thought all the controversy was afterward, not the items mentioned in the article. The stand-down and related talk was all by the victims' families and a few others.
Ehm - no? Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck come to mind - all commented on the stand down order that didn't happen. Darrel Issa ran with it. Fox News ran the stand-down myth as pretty much gospel for months on end. Sean Hannity mentioned it as a given when interviewing Dick Cheney. Googloing "stand down benghazi" provides a who's who of prominent right-wingers.
It's too late to protest that it was always about whether the attack was due to a video that had a dozen of other embassies under siege by angry mobs.
If that is what they concluded, then it is what it is. It's over. I don't believe they handled it well but we will learn nothing more so I am satisfied they at least looked into it as best they could.
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