Sunday, July 3, 2016

House Republicans Release a Benghazi Report With "New" Facts That Don't Change the Story

A day after Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi released a 339-page report slamming their GOP colleagues for engaging in a partisan witch hunt instead of a serious inquiry into the 2012 attack on a US facility in that Libyan city, the Republican committee members released their final report.

Clocking in at more than 800 pages—and completed after one of the costliest and longest congressional investigations—it alleges that the Obama administration was more concerned with the political fallout of the attack than with immediately aiding Americans under assault, that it failed to deploy military assets to protect US personnel in Benghazi (a point examined by several previous investigations that essentially concluded that there had been no wrongdoing), and that it hindered the committee's investigation by withholding evidence and blocking interviews with key officials. The committee claimed it had uncovered loads of new facts, but few, if any, bolstered the various charges and conspiracy theories Republicans and conservatives have hurled at the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attack....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/house-republicans-benghazi-report-released


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