Howdy-Gowdy!!!! House Democrats release their own Benghazi report

[malaise]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/27/democrats-say-no-blame-clinton-benghazi/86425430/
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The Democrats, like previous congressional investigations, fault weak security at the U.S. facility in Benghazi, and military resources that were not in a position to respond quickly enough to save lives.

Clinton, they concluded, did not personally deny requests for increased security at the vulnerable compound and claims of an order that the military "stand down" in its rescue attempts are unsubstantiated, the Democrats said.

A large part of the report attacks the Republicans for using the investigation as a political attack on Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Gowdy and the GOP have denied it was politically motivated, and instead is meant to be the final fact-based account of the circumstances before, during and after the attacks.

The Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi killed four Americans. Unsatisfied with previous congressional investigations, the House created a special investigative committee in May 2014. Despite a cordial beginning, the investigation became starkly partisan.

Democrats make several recommendations, including that the State Department coordinate with the Defense Department and intelligence agencies to "assess the willingness and capacity of host governments to defend U.S. diplomatic facilities within their borders" and if the host government is unwilling, the "sufficient diplomatic security or military forces must be available to defend or evacuate the facility," the report states.

[tonyt53]

1. This one has to chap the ass of Gowdy.

[gratuitous]

2. Of course there's no evidence

But that doesn't mean Republicans can't keep on saying there is; they just haven't found the evidence yet. It's gotta be there, it's just gotta! Otherwise, the Republicans look like partisan hacks, exploiting four deaths for their own political gain, and that might make them look bad.

[malaise]

3. I'm just glad the Dems got their report in the public sphere first

We knew from day one that ReTHUGs were planning to exploit the deaths of those four persons for two reasons - obfuscation since they cut the security funding for Embassies let alone Consulates and to attack Hillary Clinton

[Gabi Hayes]

6. seen this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7961461

their favorite strategy is to constantly throw propagandized BS against the wall, and use it til it doesn't stick any more, then go on to the next piece of meretricious boiler room bullshit. I'm sure Roger Stone is rollin' around in pigshit manor, enjoy life at the bottom

[spanone]

4. K&R...and the witch hunt continues....

we all know this has been strictly to ruin Ms. Clinton.

[Thinkingabout]

5. The first business the GOP should address is their cuts in the budget and then

Move on to determining there was not enough time to get our planes into the air for a defense.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. if the media insist on dredging all this crap up, the first thing the DEMS should address is

what you mention, then have ALL their surrogates repeat it endlessly, just as the media allowed John ONeill etal to torpedo Kerry's campaign with their serial, unopposed fabrications

[malaise]

8. +1,000