A report unanimously adopted by
the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee last week flatly
contradicts a number of criticisms of the Obama administration’s
response to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in
Benghazi, Libya.
The report
denies several allegations that have been made against the
administration, including the inflammatory claim that military assets
available to assist the beleaguered U.S. compound were ordered to “stand
down” during the attack, which left four Americans, including
Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.
The
members of the committee also voted to declassify the report so that
the details of the lengthy investigation can be made public.
"The
Committee spent thousands of hours in the course of the investigation,
which included poring over pages of intelligence assessments, cables,
notes and emails,” said Rep Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) in a statement.
“The Committee held twenty briefings and hearings and conducted detailed
interviews with senior intelligence officials and eyewitnesses to the
attacks, including eight security personnel on the ground in Benghazi
that night. The result is a bipartisan, factual, definitive report on
what the Intelligence Community did and did not do.”
Ruppersberger said the report found no evidence of an intelligence failure prior to the attack.
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