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But the committee's 800-page report, released by Republican members, offered no "smoking gun" about Clinton's role. Panel chairman Trey Gowdy has said the report was not aimed at her, though Democrats have accused the committee's Republican majority of targeting her throughout.

The report from the two-year, $7 million investigation does include severe criticism of the military, CIA and administration officials for their response as the attacks unfolded the night of Sept. 11, 2012, and their subsequent explanation to the American people.

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The long awaited Benghazi report is out. And Hillary Clinton says that it’s time for all of us to “move on” from this ongoing investigation that’s been one of many headaches for her campaign. Congress has been looking into exactly what happened on September 11, 2012, where Islamic terrorists attacked our compound in Benghazi, leading to the murders of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. The House Select Committee on Benghazi has been combing through documents, emails, and conducting interviews over two years throughout the course of this investigation (via Politico

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“I have said from the very beginning nothing is more important than the security of our diplomats and our development officials to go into dangerous places around the world pursuing American values, interests and our security," Clinton said in Denver. "And I said this when I testified for 11 hours that no one has thought more about or lost more sleep over the lives that we lost, the four Americans, which was devastating. And we owe to those brave Americans that we make sure we learn the right lessons from this tragedy."

That’s why I immediately put together an independent committee to go everywhere, look everywhere, come up with what recommendations would help us prevent such tragedies in the future, and that of course should be the goal," she continued. "I understand that after two years and more than $7 million spent by the Benghazi Committee out of taxpayer funds, it had to today report it had found nothing — nothing to contradict the conclusions of the Independent Accountability Board or the conclusions of the prior multiple earlier investigations carried out on a bipartisan basis in the Congress. So while this unfortunately took on a partisan tinge, I want us to stay focused on what I’ve always wanted us to stay focused on and that is the important work of diplomacy and development."

That principle, she continued, is "especially true in dangerous places."

"We cannot withdraw or retreat from the world. America needs a presence for a lot of reasons," she continued. "And the best way to honor the commitment and sacrifice of those we lost is to redouble our efforts to provide the resources and support that our diplomats and our development experts deserve. So I'll leave it to others to characterize this report but I think it is pretty clear it is time to move on."

Earlier this morning, Leah wrote that the administration pushed the narrative that a YouTube video was responsible for the attack. That was false. Al-Qaeda is suspected of executing this assault, which would’ve undercut President Obama’s claim that the terror organization was on the run during the 2012 election. Cortney and Katie wrote that then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ordered military units to move on Benghazi, but were stalled reportedly over a debate concerning which uniforms our forces should wear.

One of the inconsistencies found post-Benghazi were the talking points from the CIA, which ABC News reported on in 2013. In that discovery, they found that the Obama White House and the State Department suggested edits removing references to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia and warnings from the intelligence community about the terrorist elements in the areas prior to the attack.

Twelve different sets of talking points were hashed out and delivered by then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice. She’s now Obama’s national security adviser.

The report is quite clear that there was failed leadership on the night of the attack.

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The much anticipated Benghazi Select Committee report released early Tuesday morning reveals former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta order military assets to be deployed to Benghazi, but they never arrived. Two unarmed drones, showing a live feed of the attack, did.

Military assets sat for hours while Americans were under attack and while President Obama's team at the White House debated getting YouTube to take down a video offensive to Muslims, which was of course used as an excuse for the attack.

"You can read this report in less time than our fellow Americans were under attack in Benghazi" Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said during a press conference Tuesday.

Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed eight hours into the attack. Doherty self-deployed with a small team to Benghazi from Tripoli after hearing about the attack.

"Team Tripoli, which included military personnel based at the Tripoli Annex, acted with purpose, precision and ingenuity that night. The Secretary and the Joint Staff did not know those personnel were in Tripoli, much less were they considered as one of the potential assets to respond to the events in Benghazi," the report states. "In fact, they represent the only military 'asset' to reach Benghazi during the attacks.
They deployed themselves because fellow Americans needed them."

The question remaining is why the assets never made it. According to the report, President Obama said during the attack to "do everything possible to help our people."

"When the attacks in Benghazi began, the Defense Department was unprepared to respond. Despite there being a missing U.S. Ambassador, its response—from the start of the attack at 9:42 p.m. in Libya, to the amount of time it took for the forces to actually deploy until late the next morning in Libya at best illustrates a rusty bureaucratic process not in keeping with the gravity and urgency of the events happening on the ground. The decisions made earlier in the year by senior State Department officials to maintain a presence in Benghazi without adequate security forces and an inadequately fortified Mission compound contributed to what amounted to a worst case scenario of circumstances that would test the military’s preparedness and ability to respond," the report states.

"Nevertheless, the Defense Department did not pass the test. Whether this failure is shouldered by it alone, or rests in part on decisions made by the State Department in Washington D.C. or with the White House who presided over a two hour meeting where half of the action items related to an anti-Muslim video wholly unconnected to the attacks, is one of the lingering questions about Benghazi."

"What is clear is the Secretary of Defense testified he was clear on both what the President ordered and what he ordered subsequent to the initial attack. Yet, no asset was ever ordered to respond to Benghazi and the decisions made and not made coupled with a lack of urgency in Washington D.C. delayed the response even, in some instances, with an Ambassador missing," the report continues.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Said on the news that she knew* from the start* that it wasn't some guy on you tube insulting islam. (listening to it now)
Now that's a great excuse; "No, no, the little guy in you tube is supposed to be paying my mortgage for me every month!"
"Anti-islamic" "I'm not anti-Islamic, it's that guy on the you tube videos!
You have to figure that if she can lie about being under ,..."withering sniper fire" then this is no stretch for her.
When's she *ever* been truthfull?
She's sounded like that guy "Tommy Flan-A-gan on SNL for years now.
I don't think SNL has ever put her in a good light.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

"Committee Report: Secretary of Defense Panetta Ordered Military Assets For Benghazi, They Never Moved"

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The much anticipated Benghazi Select Committee report released early Tuesday morning reveals former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta order military assets to be deployed to Benghazi, but they never arrived. Two unarmed drones, showing a live feed of the attack, did.

Military assets sat for hours while Americans were under attack and while President Obama's team at the White House debated getting YouTube to take down a video offensive to Muslims, which was of course used as an excuse for the attack.

"You can read this report in less time than our fellow Americans were under attack in Benghazi" Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said during a press conference Tuesday.

Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed eight hours into the attack. Doherty self-deployed with a small team to Benghazi from Tripoli after hearing about the attack.

"Team Tripoli, which included military personnel based at the Tripoli Annex, acted with purpose, precision and ingenuity that night. The Secretary and the Joint Staff did not know those personnel were in Tripoli, much less were they considered as one of the potential assets to respond to the events in Benghazi," the report states. "In fact, they represent the only military 'asset' to reach Benghazi during the attacks.
They deployed themselves because fellow Americans needed them."

The question remaining is why the assets never made it. According to the report, President Obama said during the attack to "do everything possible to help our people."

"When the attacks in Benghazi began, the Defense Department was unprepared to respond. Despite there being a missing U.S. Ambassador, its response—from the start of the attack at 9:42 p.m. in Libya, to the amount of time it took for the forces to actually deploy until late the next morning in Libya at best illustrates a rusty bureaucratic process not in keeping with the gravity and urgency of the events happening on the ground. The decisions made earlier in the year by senior State Department officials to maintain a presence in Benghazi without adequate security forces and an inadequately fortified Mission compound contributed to what amounted to a worst case scenario of circumstances that would test the military’s preparedness and ability to respond," the report states.

"Nevertheless, the Defense Department did not pass the test. Whether this failure is shouldered by it alone, or rests in part on decisions made by the State Department in Washington D.C. or with the White House who presided over a two hour meeting where half of the action items related to an anti-Muslim video wholly unconnected to the attacks, is one of the lingering questions about Benghazi."

"What is clear is the Secretary of Defense testified he was clear on both what the President ordered and what he ordered subsequent to the initial attack. Yet, no asset was ever ordered to respond to Benghazi and the decisions made and not made coupled with a lack of urgency in Washington D.C. delayed the response even, in some instances, with an Ambassador missing," the report continues.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/06/28/panetta-ordered-military-assets-for-benghazi-n2184771

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
Has this investigation and report told us anything new? It appears not. It would appear that the findings add little or nothing to what was already publicly known.
IOW this investigation was a waste of time and money. Just like all the other investigations into Hilary, which have cost a cool $100,000,000 to date.
I was under the impression that the GOP was concerned about the US's budget deficit. Obviously I was wrong. If the GOP can waste money on this extravagant scale in failed pursuits of their political opponents, then clearly they have little or no interest in reducing Govt spending or waste.

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
If the GOP believes that Hillary will make the deficit and debt worse by being elected President, wouldn't it be fiscally responsible for the GOP to prevent her from being elected?
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As much as the GOP wants to crow that they are just trying to find out what happened, what went wrong, etc., there has been little of this investigation that wasn't partisan smear tactics. That is most disappointing.