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Dr_Phibes wrote:Or she went along with the State Department's interpretation. The incident happened, the State Department invented a narrative and she regurgitated it. This is standard procedure :?

Dr_Phibes wrote:The State Department is a vast institution assigned tasks. I equate it to a massive oil tanker, you don't stop and swerve on a dime.

Hiilary doesn't observe over the day to day workings, or preside on how events are to be interpreted. The institution is given a policy, then infomation, then given parametres on how information is to be presented and goes from there. You'd sooner blame the President for not putting up a stop-sign at a school crossing.

smackaholic wrote:

Dr_Phibes wrote:The State Department is a vast institution assigned tasks. I equate it to a massive oil tanker, you don't stop and swerve on a dime.

Hiilary doesn't observe over the day to day workings, or preside on how events are to be interpreted. The institution is given a policy, then infomation, then given parametres on how information is to be presented and goes from there. You'd sooner blame the President for not putting up a stop-sign at a school crossing.

So the bureaucratic machine just chugs along then? The political figureheads at the helm are just along for the ride?

Screw_Michigan wrote:Another completely fact free KC Scrote take. Are you ever not completely wrong about anything?

Left Seater wrote:Killary Clinton. Has a certain ring to it.

88 wrote:What difference does it make, anyway?

Washington (CNN) — House Republicans capped a partisan, two-year investigation of the Benghazi terror attacks Tuesday with a report that faults the Obama administration for security lapses that led to the deaths of four Americans but contains no revelations likely to further damage Hillary Clinton.

The more than 800-page report paints a picture of a perfect storm of bureaucratic inertia, rapidly worsening security in Libya and inadequate resources in the months that led up to the killings of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three colleagues on September 11, 2012.

The administration initially claimed the attack was carried out by an angry mob responding to a video made in the U.S. mocking Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. But the assault was later determined to be a terrorist attack -- a finding Republicans accused the White House of covering up to protect President Barack Obama's re-election prospects.

The House Benghazi Committee report doesn't directly blame Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time and is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, for the attacks. But it does suggest she and other administration officials did not adequately address the risks involved. It also found Stevens himself bore responsibility for securing his post.

When it comes to Clinton, the report stresses that intelligence was available suggesting an attack was possible and she and a top aide, Patrick Kennedy, should have realized the risks posed to the Benghazi mission by extremist groups.

"It is not clear what additional intelligence would have satisfied either Kennedy or the Secretary in understanding the Benghazi mission compound was at risk -- short of an attack," the report says.

Clinton told the House Benghazi Committee last year that she was aware of the dangers in Libya but "there was no actionable intelligence" indicating a planned attack.

On Tuesday, she reacted to the report by saying that after two years, the committee had found "nothing, nothing" to contradict an independent Accountability Review Board she commissioned herself while Secretary of State.

"I'll leave it to others to characterize the report but I think it's pretty clear it's time to move on," Clinton said at a campaign event in Denver.

The report reveals that Stevens and senior department officials were apparently keen to set up a permanent consulate in Benghazi ahead of a planned visit to the city by Clinton in October 2012. But the difficulty finding a suitable secure facility prompted officials to exclude the Benghazi compound from official department rules and standards that would have otherwise been more stringent.

"If you are in a non-diplomatic facility, there are no security standards. They don't exist," one unnamed diplomatic security agent told the committee.