Republican Benghazi report offers no new evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton

Posted by | June 28, 2016 10:52 | Filed under: Politics


The Republican report criticizes her, of course, since it’s a political witch hunt, but shows no new revelations of wrongdoing.

The 800-page report, however, included some new details about the night of the attacks, and the context in which it occurred, and it delivered a broad rebuke of government agencies like the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department — and the officials who led them — for failing to grasp the acute security risks in the Libyan city, and especially for maintaining outposts in Benghazi that they could not protect…

The report, however, did not dispute that United States military forces stationed in Europe could not have reached Benghazi in time to rescue the personnel who died — a central finding of previous inquiries…

…the lack of any crisp, hard-hitting allegation of professional misconduct or dereliction of duty, was certain to fuel further criticism of the length the investigation — more than two years — and the expense, estimated at more than $7 million, in addition to Democrats’ allegations that the inquiry was specifically intended to damage Mrs. Clinton’s presidential prospects.

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16 responses to Republican Benghazi report offers no new evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton

  1. anothertoothpick June 28th, 2016 at 11:13

    One picture sums things up.

    • whatthe46 June 28th, 2016 at 11:21

      He couldn’t get under her skin.

      • anothertoothpick June 28th, 2016 at 11:40

        Yeah! That is what I thought too!

      • The Original Just Me June 28th, 2016 at 16:45

        Oh , I had a Good one for that, but this is the Family Channel. :+)

  2. Mike June 28th, 2016 at 11:21

    Darn, and republicans had a cell painted pink for her in Leavenworth…did they add that to the wasted money…???

  3. labman57 June 28th, 2016 at 11:32

    Many months of intense scrutiny and millions of dollars later, and that’s all they have to say?

    Hmmm. I wonder how the House GOP feels about Reagan and Beirut?

  4. amersham1046 June 28th, 2016 at 15:26

    Surprise surprise surprise, Sorry can not do a Gomer Plye inflection on a keyboard

  5. Dcbos June 28th, 2016 at 16:43

    Tre Witch Hunt Gowdy lied and deceived for the entire hearing ; taking a page from the FOX republican teabag party tell lies so often even you start to believe them; propagandists all.

  6. amersham1046 June 28th, 2016 at 18:49

    but it makes a dam good door stop

  7. StoneyCurtisll June 28th, 2016 at 19:06

    7+ Million US tax payer dollars down the drain….

  8. CHOCOL8MILK June 28th, 2016 at 21:28

    I wonder if the GOP will give the same scrutiny to “Bridgegate”. Also, even though both the GOP and Dems have issued reports (GOP 800 pages!!!! Dems 300 pages!!!!), with both reports in agreement that Hillary was not at fault, RWNJs will still foam at the mouth…screaming that Hillary is a traitor who should be jailed. Facts be damned!

  9. bpollen June 29th, 2016 at 06:41

    Come back next week for another exciting episode of Nobody Didn’t See This Coming Theater, where we find our guest star Ted Cruz spends taxpayer dollars to discover why responsible people don’t say “radical Islam.” And now, a word from our sponsors: OIL – Oppressive Industrial Libertarians, with generous funding from Koch Industries, Americans for Prosperity, and the RNC.

  10. Phirst Lasname June 30th, 2016 at 23:23

    The “Radical Islam” phrase is a misleading distraction. Radical Zionism as represented by the neocons is the real problem and the real threat. For those Muslims who have been radicalized, it was neocon driven policies by the Israeli and U.S. governments that is most responsible for it. The neocon dominated Israeli and U.S. wars, proxy wars, coups and assassinations is directly responsible for the murder, maiming and displacement of millions of noncombat civilian Muslim men, women and children. Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, Libya. Millions, butchered and displaced in every country that the neocons and neoliberals have touched… AND, the neocons are using these Saudi controlled radicalized Muslims to stage false flag terror attacks throughout the world, which are then blamed on whatever resource rich and strategically located nation that the neocons want to attack and occupy next, such as Syria and Iran… Until these neocon war criminals are rounded up, arrested and prosecuted for war crimes and treason, their war OF terror will never end in our lifetime… PNAC, is the Project for a New American Century of war between us and a them, the “them” being the Muslims, the Russians and the Chinese. A new world war that will end in a nuclear war, which will be the last war… Only anti war Donald Trump or anti-war Bernie Sanders as president can end this, and the war lobby establishment (which IS the establishment) is solidly against them, and aligned with Hitlery, who is a neoliberal who would as president fully accommodate the neocon warmongers. With Hillary as president we will exist under a combination fascist and communist occupation, with perpetual terrorism, war and tyranny, followed by the extinction of the human race. Game over. Satan wins.

  11. Phirst Lasname June 30th, 2016 at 23:28

    The neocons did Benghazi. The idea was to Carter-ize Obama just 2 months before the 2012 election. Benghazi was a manufactured foreign policy crisis against Obama, and the intended beneficiary was Romney, who immediately pounced to exploit the crisis that he anticipated 5 months prior at his secretly recorded Boca Raton meeting with supporters. This is why everyone on the right gets so defensive about that Innocence of Muslims video, because that video was produced and publicly disseminated by pro-Romney neocons, including Pamela Geller, and that inflammatory video was used by neocon operatives to foment a crisis atmosphere outside Benghazi throughout the Middle East, and on the same day there were the attacks against US targets in Benghazi. Both of the events outside Benghazi and inside Benghazi were preplanned and coordinated to create a foreign crisis for the right to politically exploit. To believe that the neocon co-opted right wasn’t behind ALL of the events on 9/11, 2012 is to believe in a great deal of coincidence. The phony straw man argument is that the neocon produced Innocence of Muslims video did not inspire or incite the violence in Benghazi, and therefore the neocons behind that video had nothing to do with it, but this was not video’s purpose. Indeed, the attacks in Benghazi were preplanned, as was the fomenting of demonstrations and rioting outside Benghazi (the video’s purpose). The Reich-wing neocons were behind all of the events on [9/11] 2012. There are many other facts and certainties to back up this claim. Honest and informed people cannot dismiss this as merely coincidental. Was there gross incompetence and negligence on the part of the Obama administration regarding Benghazi, yes. The neocons started a massive fire, and the Obama/Hillary fire department didn’t show up to put out that fire, but unlike most, I also hold responsible the people who started that fire. The arsonists, the neocons.

  12. Phirst Lasname June 30th, 2016 at 23:51

    Who are the neocons? They are militant radical Zionists who are backed by billionaire and trillionaire bankers who control western governments and the Mideast allies, including Saudi Arabia and Israel. The neocons and their operatives have infiltrated the government and press, intelligence services and the DOD. As a result, the neocons have access to virtually limitless resources and personnel to implement whatever evil plot they come up with, BUT, while the neocons are very adept at mass murder and mass destruction, chaos and destabilization, the neocons are NOT good at actually realizing their geopolitical goals. The neocons, instead, only have failed states and blowback to show for their evil means, and that is because you cannot get a good outcome by evil means. Good results require good means. This is designed in by either God or nature. Good means equals good ends, and evil means equals evil ends, or more of the same… THROW THE NEOCONS UNDER THE BUS, THROW THE NEOCONS UNDER THE BUS, THROW THE NECONS UNDER THE BUS, and their Hitlery puppet along with them. An anti-war, anti-neocon Sanders or an anti-war, anti-neocon Trump must be the next president of the United States, or we are all going to end up trapped in the worst nightmare situation for a long time. Hitlery will make Bush look like a little mischievous cub scout by comparison… You don’t like Trump’s not-so-charming personality and his very blunt speech, I get that, but how many brown people has Trump murdered? NONE. How many failed states like Iraq, Libya and Ukraine is Trump responsible for? NONE. The war criminal Hitlery did that… The Trump haters need a better sense of proportion, and if you say “never Trump”, then you better have Sanders snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Sanders better end up your party’s nominee, after all. You Sanders supporters do not have to allow Hitlery to steal your party’s nomination. It’s not official, yet. You have 3 weeks left to make things right, and nominate Sanders, and if the general election is between Sanders and Trump, the people will win no matter what the outcome.

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