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A long-delayed Senate Intelligence Committee report released on Wednesday spreads blame among the State Department and intelligence agencies for not preventing attacks on two outposts in Libya that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens...
The report is based on dozens of committee hearings, briefings and interviews—including with survivors of the attacks—and on thousands of pages of intelligence and State Department materials collected between September 2012 and December 2013.
From today's edition of The Washington Post:
The report can be found at:
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/benghazi2014/benghazi.pdf
Personally, I think we should be happy we have had to take so relatively few and mild hits in the last ten years . There might be some luck involved, but our agencies seem to have been getting something right most of the time. That might not excuse the Libyen thing and we need to understand what happend, punish if required. But in general the governments have done okay.
I agree. The U.S. needs to take a constructive approach, learn from what happened, and make adjustments to reduce future risks. Although one can't eliminate all risks, risk mitigation is possible, at least if the report's findings are reliable.
Personally, I think we should be happy we have had to take so relatively few and mild hits in the last ten years . There might be some luck involved, but our agencies seem to have been getting something right most of the time. That might not excuse the Libyen thing and we need to understand what happend, punish if required. But in general the governments have done okay.
One thing I wonder is whether the Panel was finally allowed to talk to people who were there who the exec had been hiding from interviews? It says the CIA wasnt told to stand down, but we have whistleblowers on record saying they were. Who is lying?
Gregory Hicks? Really?
Thats what Im asking. Hicks is one. There were many people involved, who have claimed they were harrased by the govt not to talk. Was congress finally allowed to talk to them? Thats why Im trying to figure out.
You would hope that some day the govt would learn from their mistakes, but Im just not seeing it. And americans keep dying due to incompetence and politics. With no real accountability for the people who are supposed to be responsible. Hopefully one day americans will wise up and kick them all out of office.
This is one of those times when you just have to say... "Thank God for Fox News", because if they didn't exist, nobody would know that Obama and members of his Administration knowingly and willfully lied to the American people for weeks. Thanks to Fox we now know that the Obama Administration was told on day 1 that the attack was not due to a video, but was an organized terrorist attack.
Take it away Megyn:
Ok. So what's going to happen about it?
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