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BENGHAZI REPORT FINALLY COMES OUT...IT'S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT

Colleen Conley

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June 28, 2016

It’s a scathing report that reveals just how cold, conniving and calculating Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were.

After a two-year investigation, the House Select Committee on Benghazi has released an 800-page report that exposes how both Clinton and the Obama administration put politics and self-preservation before Americans’ safety in the weeks leading up to the 2012 election.

The long-awaited document provides a look into the events before and during the night of September 11, 2012, when heavily armed terrorists attacked American facilities in the Libyan city, resulting in the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in a ferocious firefight that lasted well into the next morning.

The opening of the report states: “81 New Witnesses and 75,000 New Pages of Documents Reveal Significant New Information” that “Fundamentally Changes the Public’s Understanding of the 2012 Terrorist Attacks that Killed Four Americans.” Led by South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, the committee issues the majority report that cites several new facts in a blistering rebuke of Clinton’s leadership of the State Department.

The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part I:

  • Despite President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s clear orders to deploy military assets, nothing was sent to Benghazi, and nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost 8 hours after the attacks began.
  • With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items focused on a YouTube video, and others containing the phrases “[i]f any deployment is made,” and “Libya must agree to any deployment,” and “[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go to either Tripoli or Benghazi.”
  • A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota, Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four times.
  • None of the relevant military forces met their required deployment timelines.

Despite requests for additional security at the U.S. diplomatic outpost in a volatile city from which all other countries had vacated their personnel, Clinton failed to recognize the apparent threat even though she was briefed daily on the increase in Al Qaeda-like groups in the area.

“It is not clear what additional intelligence would have satisfied either [Undersecretary of Management Patrick] Kennedy or the secretary in understanding the Benghazi Mission compound was at risk—short of an attack,” the report claimed in a reference to Secretary Clinton.

After the violence occurred, the report claims that Clinton and the administration scrambled to blame the attack on an anti-Muslim YouTube video, despite no mention of it by the last person who spoke with Ambassador Stevens before he died.

State Department senior officials held a meeting after Stevens went missing and “had access to eyewitness accounts to the attack in real time. There was no mention of the video from the agents on the ground,” the report states.

Nonetheless, Clinton continued to tie the video to the incident in public, despite several communications she sent confirming that the attack was conducted by an Al Qaeda-like group — including an email to her daughter, Chelsea.