RIP Benghazi Conspiracy Theories

RIP Benghazi Conspiracy Theories

by Michael McAuliff | Huffington Post | Posted: 11/21/2014 5:59 pm EST
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WASHINGTON -- "Yet another detailed investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, has refuted claims that there was a coverup or that officials didn't do all they could at the time to save the four Americans killed that night.

The latest findings, released Friday, come from the declassified two-year investigation of the House Intelligence Committee, which conducted an exhaustive probe into the incident, including claims that the White House cooked up phony talking points for then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice.

The report did find that the State Department was unable to protect the facility in eastern Libya where Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed, but also contradicts many of the charges leveled at the Obama administration in the days and years following the attacks.

Among its findings, the report says CIA personnel responded not just well, but heroically; that there was no "stand down" order, as some critics have claimed; there was no intimidation of witnesses by superiors; there was no intelligence failure prior to the attack; and that a "mixed group" of individuals, including some linked to al Qaeda, participated in the attack.

But perhaps the most significant conclusion is its finding that Rice's talking points - a key focus of the Benghazi Select Committee empaneled by House Speaker John Boehner - were not part of an attempt to conceal the severity of the incident.

According to the report, early intelligence that the attacks were sparked by an Internet video was "not accurate," but not intentionally so. And the report holds that the process that produced Rice's now-infamous talking points was flawed, resulting in errors rather than deliberate lies. Indeed, the report determined that the CIA had not sorted out the conflicting intelligence until two days after Rice appeared on television claiming the attacks stemmed from a protest.

In a joint statement accompanying the release of the report, Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.)and the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (Md.), said its probe was extensive:

'For over two years, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence exhaustively investigated the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi Libya. We conducted detailed interviews with senior intelligence officials from Benghazi and Tripoli as well as eight security personnel on the ground in Benghazi that night. Based on the testimony and the documents we reviewed, we concluded that all the CIA officers in Benghazi were heroes. Their actions saved lives.'

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the Intelligence Committee and the Benghazi Select Committee, said in a statement that the new document should finally close the door on the conspiracy chatter.

"It's my hope that this report will put to rest many of the questions that have been asked and answered yet again, and that the Benghazi Select Committee will accept these findings and instead focus its attention on the State Department's progress in securing our facilities around the world and standing up our fast response capabilities," Schiff said.

So far the Benghazi Select Committee, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), has held one hearing focusing on the issue of securing diplomatic facilities.

The House Armed Services Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee and the State Department's independent review board have all come to similar conclusions, even before the House launched its Benghazi panel."

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IMO: So all the hearings held by Darrell Issa were just blowing smoke intended to smear President Obama, Rice, and Hillary Clinton. It also gave them something to do, as they held many repetitious hearings trying to find something to do because they denied every request for additional troops, and really wanted a scandal to develop from their own gross treasonous accusations.

What they decided to do was keep the Benghazi tragedy alive and in the public's mind by claims of lying, cover-ups, and deliberately started a political circus, making a political spectacle out of countless hearings on the deaths of 4 Americans even as they knew of the numerous requests they themselves had denied funds for more security forces to be sent to Benghazi in the months preceding the attack.

It is indeed sickening to have a political party try to make a poliical scandal out of the deaths of 4 American workers. They should be held accountable for their actions just as they tried to make President Obama, Rice, and Clinton accountable for the lack of security that caused havoc in Benghazi - they didn't seem worried by the lack of security of their fellow American officers for which many had made repeated requests.

Darrell Issa and the entire Oversight Committee are directly responsible for the deaths of 4 Americans and others through their refusal of funds for additional security. Therefore, Darrell Issa and the members of the Oversight Committee should be held to a strictly enforced, public inquiry as to their actions in their capacity of responsibility in the Benghazi Affair where 4 American lives were lost needlessly through the Oversight Committee's criminal negligence.

 

We get it. It wasn't terrorism. It was just workplace violence and Obama didn't know about it until he saw it on the news. It's not tragic, it's a fake scandal....we get it.

 

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But what are your thoughts on 4 American workers being killed because of the Oversight Committee's refusal to fund more security months before the attack; what is the worth of even 1 American life to you?

 

I signed the dotted line to die for America. I'd say every American life is pretty important to me. You?

 

SO... you think this confirmation of Obama's incompetence somehow makes Benghazi a non issue?

 

So democrats think if they can get the liberal media to declare scandals "RIP" then Hillary won't have to deal with them. Nice try. See you in 2016! Hahaha!

 

What are you thoughts on the fact the administration invented the YouTube lie completely in house without any input from military or intelligence organizations?

Sorry Agent, Hillary is going to have to come up with a better answer than "what difference does it make" because she will be hit with this at every turn if Obama steps down.

 

Who is claiming Benghazi is not terrorism?

 

This is (*)(*)(*)(*)ing outrageous... Bravo Agent, you outdid yourself

 

The Oversight Committee doesn't fund anything, much less embassy security. Most Americans know committees don't have the power to fund or not. Are you even American?

 

$2.2 billion dollars for upgrading security and the State Dept is just sitting on it? Why? They could have easily provided the Benghazi consulate with some real security, but didn't.

 

Like any conspiracy theory, the stronger the evidence that there is no conspiracy, the stronger the evidence that the conspiracy is a lot more extensive than we thought.

How many versions of the Official Truth do we have by now? Do we get to vote on which Official Truth we find most congenial?

 

Now the Right has to put all its conspiracy eggs in Trey Goudy's basket. He's gotta find something right??

 

That is about the size of it.The MSM will undoubtedly have the
AP put out all kinds of stories stating that the American public
no longer cares about Benghazi.Nor really ever did.
Then they { AP } will put out news articles in all the big city's
with garbage reporting of poll and surveys finding that there
never was an corruption in regards to Benghazi.It was all
made up by the GOP.
Which of course is the exact opposite of what happened.
It was the Democrats with Obama as titular head along with
Hillary and the Dempcrat Party and Susan Rice who actively
ran a con on the American People.Americans don't need to
have the GOP tell them ... Trust us,we had nothing whatever to do
with a Video.It was enshrined at the ballot box a couple weeks ago.
It was the Dimocrats who did it.Lied and made a Video out as
culprit.

 

So then you admit that a Video had nothing to do with the
Benghazi Attack.

 

Wow, so they are ALL in on it - the whole government, the media, the Democratic Party, the works. Good thing we have True Patriots like you to see through all this and discern the Truth. I'm impressed.

 

Lindsay Graham and his ilk have come off idiotic over their false outrage over Benghazi.

 

Exactly, anyone who thinks Benghazi is over is having delusions. If anyone thinks Hillary is going to make a run for the White House without first explaining her lies to American public they are hilariously in denial.
Apparently Dems really do think other people are dumb. Oh gee, leftist say Benghazi is over, I guess we wont talk about it anymore then....lol. Do they really think that will work or are they really that desperate?

 

But what are your thoughts on 4 American workers being killed because of the Oversight Committee's refusal to fund more security months before the attack; what is the worth of even 1 American life to you?

How many MILLIONS did the REP congress cut from State's actual request for more security?? $30million?? I guess that's not real money and wouldn't
have saved Chris and the others, right?? Saved taxpayers money and than blamed HILLARY for letting them die. That takes unmitigated GALL!

 

Christian Science Monitor, October 5, 2012 - Dan Murphy

...After I wrote a piece earlier this week about the political gain being sought from the deaths of Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, a number of diplomatic acquaintances of mine emailed to say I should have looked at the State Department's security budget. Two of them had unprintable things to say about Congress.

Who can be blamed for that? Well, Chaffetz and Issa among others.

Since retaking control in 2010, House Republicans have aggressively cut spending at the State Department in general and embassy security in particular. Chaffetz and Issa and their colleagues voted to pay for far less security than the State Department requested in 2011 and again this year.

A bit rich
Is that responsible for the tragedy in Benghazi? Probably not, at least not entirely. Usually when security goes wrong, it's down to a cascade of small failures piling up. But it's a bit rich to complain about a lack of US security personnel at diplomatic missions on the one hand, while actively working to cut the budget to pay for US security personnel at diplomatic missions on the other.

 

I never really bought into the deliberately let them die theory. Personally I think the irs thing has a lot more validity then Benghazi. I think that the president was using those guys to smuggle guns to sympathetic parties in Libya. That would have been a big violation of the UN small arms treaty if exposed. But before you take this out of wack. I am well aware of the fact that the us is and has been one of the biggest arms dealers in the world. Republican or democrat doesn't matter.

 

The Dems can keep repeating the talking points as many times as they want, it'll make no difference. Benghazi isn't going away just 'cause they say so.

 

Dear. . . It was a Republican panel who did this last investigation and came to that coclusion! Get your facts straight so you don't look so much like a fool!

 

This is SO Ironically sad.Now make sure to convince yerself that the
Election 3 weeks ago was a mirage also.That Obama and his
drat Dimocrats DIDN'T do more to engender and embolden
More Republicans into Politics { Congress,and state legislatures }
than Ronnie Reagan could muster.
This Cartoonish priggish proud little pronouncement about
how Great this Administration handled the Benghazi attack is
classic.I don't know what's more absurdly surreal.
This bogus,rigged report or the way Dimocrats feel exonerated.
They just were handed one of the worse political defeats in
American History.
yet Obama is back in the saddle as overly glib used car salesman
trying to hoodwink little old ladies with his jalopy con.
None of this will fly.It has a life cycle of about one weekend,at best.

 

Do you have any evidence that the House Intelligence Committee's report is bogus or rigged?