House panel: No administration wrongdoing in Benghazi attack

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House panel: No administration wrongdoing in Benghazi attack

by Carolyn Lochhead at SF Gate

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/House-panel-No-administration-wrongdoing-in-5663509.php

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11:42 PDT WASHINGTON -- The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, has concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, said Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, the second-ranking Democrat on the committee.

The panel voted Thursday to declassify the report, the result of two years of investigation by the committee. U.S. intelligence agencies will have to approve making the report public.

Thompson said the report "confirms that no one was deliberately misled, no military assets were withheld and no stand-down order (to U.S. forces) was given."

That conflicts with accusations of administration wrongdoing voiced by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista (San Diego County), whose House Government Oversight and Reform Committee has held hearings on the Benghazi attack.




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[Lochloosa]

1. Now what is Shawn going to talk about? IRS?

[LisaLynne]

4. Oh I have a feeling that ...

he'll spin it that even though it was "deliberate" it was incompetence or something. There's always something they can say.

[B Calm]

2. The only wrongdoing was the republican congress wasting taxpayer money

throwing shit hoping something would stick.

[LisaLynne]

3. I was just going to say ...

so how much did that cost us?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. Don't worry about it. Money spent on things Rs want

doesn't count.

[B Calm]

9. It was priceless to republicans. They now have the vast majority of uninformed voters

believing Obama screwed up.

[jeff47]

15. No, there was also the Republican congress that cut funding for security

The State Department asked for more funding for security in several places around the world. Libya was one of them. The Republicans in Congress refused.

[G_j]

6. which warrants another investigation

of course!

[Dirty Socialist]

7. Case Closed

Just kidding...

[CanonRay]

8. But...but....Benghazi?

[spanone]

10. 'The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans' = oxymoron of the year.

[ellenfl]

11. is this the onion? eom

[Marie Marie]

12. This can only mean one thing to Darrell Issa.

More Hearings!!

[libodem]

13. Yay

That makes me almost as happy as that link to Eric Cantor's bitch face.com.

A salve to my soul it was. A thing of beauty. All the pevish pouts. All the snarky comments. Still laughing.

[stranger81]

19. Gawd I love that website. [n/t]

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. The Right has already made it "common knowledge" in their bubble that Obama is guilty....

Just like they made it "common knowledge" in their bubble that Clinton gave away our nuclear secrets to China.

http://server4.whiterosesociety.org/content/malloy/MalloyMemories/How_China_got_our_nuclear_secrets.mp3

[ChisolmTrailDem]

16. So what the fuck has that dumbass Issa been doing with all his time for the past few years???? nt

[sakabatou]

17. Wasting money, kissing the far-right's ass

[JaneyVee]

18. B E N G H A Z Z Z Z Z z z z z z z . . . . .

[C Moon]

29. :D

[Cha]

20. How much $$$$$$ did the gop waste on their fake Benghazi hearings? Will fox "news" stfu now?

No.

Mahalo apple!

[sinkingfeeling]

21. There will be much crying in the land of the disillusioned.

[Botany]

22. This is going to make a certain D.C. power couple very angry

[rtracey]

23. Ok so

Where is MSNBC, FOX, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS.....? where are all the media coming out and saying this.....

[EEO]

24. Yeah. That's what the first of more than a half dozen investigations concluded.

Idiots.

[demwing]

25. House panel: No administration wrongdoing as Sun continues to rise in the east

and set in the west...

In other words, the House just opened a can:

[Fantastic Anarchist]

26. What is Darrell Issa going to do????

So much invested, so little gained.

I almost feel sorry for him. Almost.

[lark]

27. Millions wasted over nothing.

That's the Repug way.

[C Moon]

28. Like spoiled little children...

...the GOP is bored of their old Benghazi toy, so they put it away in their toy box; now they only want to play with their new lawsuit toy.

[lpbk2713]

30. I can hear the pissing and moaning from here.

Faux and the RW AM Radio Hatemongers will have to find another dead horse to flog.