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Executive Summary
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ("HPSCI"
or "the Committee") conducted a comprehensive and
exhaustive investigation into the tragic attacks against two U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya on September 11-12, 2012. The nearly
two-year investigation focused on the
activities of the Intelligence Community ("IC") before, during, and
after the attacks. During the course of thousands of hours of
detailed investigation, HPSCI reviewed thousands of pages of intelligence
assessments, cables, notes, and emails; held 20 Committee events 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.
This report details the findings and conclusions of HPSCI's
investigation. In summary, the Committee first concludes that the
CIA ensured sufficient security for CIA facilities in Benghazi and, without a requirement to do so, ably and bravely assisted the State
Department on the night of the attacks. Their actions saved
lives. Appropriate U.S. personnel made reasonable tactical decisions that
night, and the Committee found no evidence that there was either a stand down
order or a denial of available air support. The
Committee, however, received evidence that the State Department security personnel, resources, and equipment were unable to counter the
terrorist threat that day and required CIA
assistance.
Second, the Committee finds that there was no intelligence failure prior
to the attacks. In the months prior, the IC provided
intelligence about previous attacks and the increased threat environment in Benghazi, but the IC did not have specific, tactical warning of the
September 11 attacks.
Third, the
Committee finds that a mixed group of individuals, including those affiliated
with AlQa'ida, participated in the attacks on U.S.
facilities in Benghazi, although the Committee finds that the intelligence
was and remains conflicting about the identities, affiliations, and motivations
of the attackers.
Fourth, the Committee concludes that after the attacks, the early
intelligence assessments and the Administration's
initial public narrative on the causes and motivations for the attacks were not
fully accurate. There was a stream of contradictory
and conflicting intelligence that came in after the attacks. The Committee found intelligence to support CIA's initial assessment
that the attacks had evolved out of a protest in
Benghazi; but it also found contrary intelligence, which ultimately proved to
be the correct intelligence. There was no
protest. The CIA only changed its initial assessment about a protest on September 24, 2012, when closed caption television footage became
available on September 18, 2012 (two days after Ambassador Susan
Rice spoke), and after the FBI began publishing its interviews with U.S. officials on the ground on September 22, 2012.
Fifth, the Committee finds that the process used to generate the
talking points HPSCI asked for—and which were used for
Ambassador Rice's public appearances—was flawed. HPSCI asked for the talking points solely to aid Members' ability to communicate
publicly using the best available intelligence at the time, and mistakes were
made in the process of how those talking points were developed.
Finally, the Committee found no
evidence that any officer was intimidated, wrongly forced to sign a
nondisclosure agreement or otherwise kept from speaking to Congress, or
polygraphed because of their presence in Benghazi. The Committee
also found no evidence that the CIA conducted unauthorized activities in
Benghazi and no evidence that the IC shipped arms to Syria.
3 comments:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/us/politics/in-secret-obama-extends-us-role-in-afghan-combat.html?_r=2
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/obama-stops-lying-about-afghanistan-we-are-there-forever-to-do-anything-or-kill-anyone-we-want/
Obama caves again, not least because the left would be rather whining about some wedge issue than bringing imperial bloodletting to an end.
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-house-intel-committee-on-benghazi.html
Don't dismiss Hersh.
https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/suicide-blast-afghan-sports-field-kills-50-official-145646200.html
Taliban not impressed with the Nobel winner's buckling to the Pentagon's "gotta stay and preserve our victory" lies.
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