Clinton ready to ‘move on’ after Benghazi report clears her of wrongdoing

The 802-report, prepared by the Republican majority on the committee, blamed the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department for not realizing security risks in the Libyan city.

“A lot of people say they’re not going to vote this November because their candidate didn’t win; Well, I know some people who won’t be voting this year either”, Geist says, walking through a cemetery. “Have her call me!”

Regrettably, the best Republicans could do with their special, select committee, was take what the Obama administration said, reword it to make it sound like a condemnation, and package it in an 800-page report that took two years and $7 million – in our money – to produce. “But what was the underlying cause?” she said.

The Republican House committee on Benghazi released its eighth report Tuesday providing no new information and the Chairman still couldn’t prove Clinton lied.

The report, which included perhaps the most exhaustive chronology of the attacks to date, did not dispute that American military forces stationed in Europe could not have reached Benghazi in time to rescue the personnel who died – a central finding of previous inquiries.

“I’ll tell you something that’s new that the Americans have found out and our enemies have found out at the same time, which is that Hillary Clinton is a blabbermouth”, he said.

The report also criticizes government officials for their subsequent explanation to the American people.

Reps. Mike Pompeo of Kansas and Jim Jordan of OH issued a separate report slamming Clinton and the Obama administration, with Pompeo telling reporters that the former first lady and senator was “morally reprehensible”.

During election campaign in Denver, Colorado, Clinton said that it was crucial to “learn the right lessons” from the Benghazi tragedy. Government failures before, during and after the attacks, such as they were, resulted from a combination of understandable confusion and good-faith mistakes-not conspiracy, coverup, politics or deliberate “abandonment” of US personnel, as the Republican right has so often and so feverishly insinuated. Certainly the State Department is under-budgeted.

The report also portrays a “series of heroic acts” by Americans under attack.

The Committee says it compiled the report by interviewing more than 80 witnesses who had never before been questioned by Congress, and obtaining more than 75,000 pages of new documents. It’s true that the panel’s investigation did, along the way, help trigger the revelation of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server, which is a real issue.

Gowdy said he was not prepared to pass judgment on Clinton and said that opinions about her do not appear in the panel’s report.