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| U.S. Senate Report: Benghazi Attacks Were Preventable |
| 2014-01-16 |
| [An Nahar] The U.S. government could have prevented deadly attacks on its mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi by fixing "known security shortfalls," a damning Senate report concluded Wednesday. Four American citizens, including Ambassador Chris Stephens, died in the double attack targeting a U.S. diplomatic facility and the nearby CIA annex on September 11, 2012. A Senate Intelligence Committee inquiry held hearings and interviewed dozens of witnesses, against a back-drop of partisan point-scoring from both sides of Washington's political divide. Some Republican politicians accuse President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... of concealing evidence that al- Qaeda-linked jihadi groups were behind the outrage and of failing to properly protect the outpost. Obama's administration initially suggested the attacks were a spontaneous protest by Benghazi residents angered by a privately-made American anti-Islamic film posted online. Wednesday's bipartisan report emphasized the security shortfalls that allowed protesters and armed Death Eaters to storm Stephen's Benghazi compound and to torch the U.S. residence. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 "The problem has become the press." "become," OS? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-01-16 14:50 |
| #8 "She's trying to thread the needle of not getting caught lying but being a team player." FTFY, #6 NS. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-01-16 14:49 |
| #7 ...would really like to know how deeply into the other branches of gov't the cover-up goes...maybe we'll find out...probably not... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-01-16 13:24 |
| #6 My recollection is that the Beast was very quiet after the attack and that was why Susan Rice had to do the Sunday shows. She's trying to thread the needle of not lying but being a team player. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2014-01-16 12:54 |
| #5 Obama and Hildabeeste first reactions were to lie and coverup. That should say it all. Had it been a GOP president the press would be howling from the rooftops. The problem has becom the press. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-01-16 11:42 |
| #4 Perhaps they were unfixed "known security shortfalls," because the consulate facility (or the Klingon one, for that matter) was not intended to be permanent? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-01-16 11:24 |
| #3 What difference does it make |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-01-16 09:26 |
| #2 Of course not, Besoeker; the attacks could have been prevented if Nakoula had been kept in jail, unable to make the video. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-01-16 08:00 |
| #1 Does this report or finding give Nakoula Basseley Nakoula [the film maker] legal grounds for redress of damages ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-16 07:01 |