G.O.P.-Led Benghazi Inquiry Bolsters Administration
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
NOV. 22, 2014
New York Times
 
WASHINGTON — When a Republican-controlled congressional committee released the **findings
of its investigation into the fatal 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, late Friday, it
was the fifth time that a part of the federal government had issued a report on the
Obama administration’s handling of the incident.
 
 
 
Though sharply critical of the State Department’s preparedness, the new report
concluded that there was little evidence to back Republicans’ most damning accusations
about how the Obama administration and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was secretary of
state at the time, responded to the attacks.
 
 
 
Similar to the other reports, the one released by the House Intelligence Committee on
Friday said that the administration had not intentionally misled the public about what
occurred during the attacks in talking points it created for officials to use in
television appearances that turned out to be inaccurate.
 
 
 
 
It also said that no order was given by the military to “stand down” in responding to
save the four Americans killed in the attacks, a claim that Republicans have made based
on the account of a member of the security team in Benghazi that day.
 
 
 
 
Coming six months after Speaker John A. Boehner created a separate special committee to
investigate the Benghazi attacks, the report raised questions about what that panel
might uncover that the Intelligence Committee — whose chairman, Representative Mike
Rogers, Republican of Michigan, is leaving Congress — and the other investigations
missed.
 
 
 
The special committee that Mr. Boehner created is led by Representative Trey Gowdy,
Republican of South Carolina, who has a budget of $3.3 million for the investigation.
Democrats have asserted that the special committee was created by Republicans only to
try to discredit Mrs. Clinton, who is expected to seek the Democratic nomination for
president in 2016.
 
 
 
“The effort to turn the Benghazi tragedy into a political scandal never had a factual
basis,” said David Brock, founder of Correct the Record, a group that defends Mrs.
Clinton in the news media, and author of the e-book “The Benghazi Hoax.” “The
Republican committee report should close the case. If the scandal persists into 2016,
it will only be for partisan reasons.”
 

THEY GOT
 
NOTHING!!

What did you expect them to get?