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

The Washington Post ^ | Adam Goldman and Anne Gearan

[John W]

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 bipartisan report lays out more than a dozen findings regarding the assaults on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012 on the diplomatic compound and a CIA annex in the Libyan city of Benghazi. It says the State Department failed to increase security at the sites despite warnings, and faults intelligence agencies for not sharing information about the existence of the CIA outpost with the U.S. military.

The committee determined that the U.S. military command in Africa didn’t know about the CIA annex and didn’t have the resources to defend the diplomatic compound in an emergency.

“The attacks were preventable, based on extensive intelligence reporting on the terrorist activity in Libya—to include prior threats and attacks against Western targets—and given the known security shortfalls at the U.S. Mission,” the panel said in a statement.

[Morpheus2009]

Well, I learned one thing from the whole report. Politicians lie just to make themselves look good, and exaggerate the bad in others.

@#$% Hypocrites

[opentalk]

[doug from upland]

Here is the ad:

1. Play the Hillary clip of “What difference does it make...” with her shrill voice.

2. Have names under a group of people identifying their relationship to the four dead - parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, children, etc; then, in turn and one by one, each says: It matters to me...it matters to me...it matters to me...it matters to me

[VRW Conspirator]

It says the State Department failed to increase security at the sites despite warnings...

Hillary's fault. That old bag.