AP reports
A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.
Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.
But nobody ever believed any of that but conservatives in tinfoil hats.
In contrast, the following is more broadly relevant, I think.
I had more than suspected bad faith, personally, and I am not sure this is wholly satisfactory.
There is room to suspect she and they cherry-picked the explanation they wanted.
Whether they did or not, the administration and the Democrats behaved disgracefully in viciously condemning and illegally punishing, through egregious abuse of power, the maker of an internet video for his protected free expression.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, intelligence about who carried it out and why was contradictory, the report found.
That led Susan Rice, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to inaccurately assert that the attack had evolved from a protest, when in fact there had been no protest.
But it was intelligence analysts, not political appointees, who made the wrong call, the committee found.
The report did not conclude that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people.
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