‘Move on’ from Benghazi? Republicans say it’s unlikely

“This report just confirms…this committee’s chief goal is to politicize the deaths of four courageous Americans in order to try to attack the Obama administration and hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign”.

At least that’s the consensus from reporters who (presumably) read all 800-pages of that committee’s report which was released to the public yesterday.

Clinton testified before the panel for almost 11 hours last fall.

Wenstrup said, after two years of thorough investigation amid constant pushback from House Democrats and the Obama Administration, the Committee’s report confirms what he calls “a awful reality: the Obama Administration failed to take appropriate action before and during the attack to protect our diplomats”.

Next up? The FBI’s investigation into her private email server.

“I do not blame Hillary Clinton or Leon Panetta”, she told the magazine, referring to the former secretary of defense.

And Clinton herself, at a campaign appearance, dismissed the report, saying it did nothing to debunk “multiple” prior probes by independent or bipartisan bodies.

Geist, who co-authored 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi and endorsed Trump for president in February, also appeared in an earlier ad for the NRA linking the terror attack in Libya to gun control in the United States. “The fact that this is true does not mitigate the question of why the world’s most powerful military was not positioned to respond; or why the urgency and ingenuity displayed by team members at the Annex and Team Tripoli was seemingly not shared by all decision makers in Washington”.

The committee also received and reviewed more than 75,000 new pages of documents.

Republican insistence that the investigation was not politically motivated was undermined a year ago when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., suggested that the House committee could take credit for Clinton’s then-slumping poll numbers. “And I say she lied to them”.

Already bitterly partisan, Tuesday’s release of the report exposed divisions within Republican ranks.

The report found that politics and bureaucracy delayed the response to the attack on the us consulate in Benghazi, which was a result of terrorism-not a YouTube video.

The Democrats reiterated that there was nothing the State Department and the Pentagon could have done differently on the night of the attacks that would’ve saved the lives of the four Americans.

The attack by organized Libyan Islamist extremists on Stevens’ exposed USA compound in the eastern city came as Obama was engaged in a tough re-election battle against Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

“When the Select Committee was formed, I promised to conduct this investigation in a manner worthy of the American people’s respect, and worthy of the memory of those who died”, Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said in the report. A diplomatic security agent formerly stationed there referred to it as a “suicide mission”, and another said that “everybody back here in DC knows that people are going to die in Benghazi, and nobody cares and nobody is going to care until somebody does die”.