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Senate report: Attack on U.S. compound in Benghazi could have been prevented

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From today's edition of The Washington Post:

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.

The report can be found at:
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/benghazi2014/benghazi.pdf
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.

Our current government spends all their time and money on appeasement.
 
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.
 
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'm afraid I will have to throw a flag on this one.

15 yards for responding in a fair, non-partisan manner instead of indulging in partisan polemics.
 
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?
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.

Three CIA contractors did testify in closed House hearings in November, I believe. I don't know if those people are the ones referred to in the report or not.
 
Good Bye Hillary!

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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.

The government isn't trying to learn from mistakes, and incompetence, and failure to perform your minimum job requirement, isn't mistakes anyway.
 
FOX Report
mentioned tonight was the absurd "blame the building" scenario as Krauthammer put it.

"State Dept." but absolutely no-one is mentioned. Like there is this entity that runs itself, with absolutely no-one in charge or even there.

Shape-shifting blameless unaccountable ghosts at Foggy Bottom.

Feinstein even came out yestersay and specifically defended Hillary, who wasn't even mentioned..

(asides from the attack was caused by the video, which is patently false - known in the first few minutes it WAS a terror attack)
 
the Annex had more security then the 'consulate'
Stevens waived off more security, because he thought he was Superman jogging thru the streets of Bengazi, or going to coffeeshops.

State is ultimately responsible for security; but we never want to pin it down, being the bureacrats can alwasy say "we didn't know"

SOMEONE should have known, and reliance on Libyan militas is just completey stupid as Stevens behavior itself.

NYTime contradicted itself when it previously mentioned (reported) bin-Qumu (from Pakistan - GITMO detainee )
was released and became part of the Libyan militias we knew that worked to overthrow Qaddafi.

The NYT article (David D. Kirkpatrick December 28, 2013) went out of it's way to dismiss AQ the next week the WH named Ansar al-Sharia a globalist terrorist network). State is tap dancing around now about "AQ core" when bin Qumu WAS "AQ core"
 
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:



 
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?
 
Ok. So what's going to happen about it?

Likely nothing, because the main stream media will ignore it so the democrats aren't hurt by it come election time. That's just how it goes when there is a democrat in the oval office.
 
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