The most revealing paragraph in the House Benghazi report

[DonViejo]

by Zack Beauchamp on June 28, 2016, 12:10 p.m. ET

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For example, a big question in the highly partisan fight over the Benghazi attack has been whether the Obama administration could have stopped the attack with nearby US military assets but simply chose not to. This has been a theory, in some right-wing circles particularly, for a long time.

The House Select Committee’s report finds that there were no American forces in range, the same conclusion as previous reports. Yet it positions this fact as evidence of the Obama administration’s failures:

The assets ultimately deployed by the Defense Department in response to the Benghazi attacks were not positioned to arrive prior to the final lethal attack on the Annex. The fact that this is true does not mitigate the question of why the world’s most powerful military was not positioned to respond; or why the urgency and ingenuity displayed by team members at the Annex and Team Tripoli was seemingly not shared by all decision makers in Washington.

In other words: The facts find the administration wasn’t responsible for failing to stop the Benghazi attack, but the report tries to spin this evidence in a way that’s bad for Team Obama anyway. You see similar attempts to spin non-damning facts as damning in other parts of the report as well.

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http://www.vox.com/2016/6/28/12051226/benghazi-house-republican-report-paragraph

[BlueCaliDem]

1. Nothing but a $7M dollar propaganda piece in order to attack Democrats. That's what that stupid

report is - playing politics with the deaths of four Americans.

The Republicans know and have no shame.

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Also conventiently not included --

any mention of the Republicans' slashing of the security budget for our embassies prior to Benghazi.

[frazzled]

6. Or that Benghazi was not an embassy

So even if money had been allocated for embassy security, that would not have applied to this consular outpost.

[tonyt53]

3. Another "Obama's fault" moment

[Human101948]

4. They should have been able to anticipate all things everywhere!

Just like Bush and Cheney did on 9/11!

That's why no American lives were lost on that day!


"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."

--Condeleeza Rice
National Security Director

[jberryhill]

7. Yeah, just like Reagan did TWICE in Lebanon

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Well,the results of dragging this turd through the mud for this length of time,

did have a couple of Rethug out comes. One was to continue the discreditment of the Clinton name and any legacy. And it produced Campaign Talking Points for the Rethugs going forward. And secondly,it was the continuation of poking a stick in President Obama's face. Another False Equivalency ginned up by Media and Rethug so called Pundits.