CNN:
Benghazi panel caps 2-year probe: No bombshell, faults administration

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House Republicans release anticlimactic Benghazi report

The House Republicans have finally released their big Benghazi report, and it contains … not much that’s going to make real news.

Which we know from the timing—if they thought they could really damage Hillary Clinton with it, the report would have been released a lot closer to the election.

Politico, never over-cautious about hyping a story, reports that while the report contains some details that hadn’t come out in the previous investigations:

Still, the report's findings are unlikely to change the political narratives surrounding the attack.
The Republican efforts to make Benghazi a major election-year issue were hampered both by the lack of a there there and by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who gave away the game last fall when he said:


“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.
 

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The Repubs also failed to take any responsibity for denying funding requests to beef up security at the embassy.

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Social media mocks GOP’s endless failed probe: ‘The 2020 Benghazi report will be even more stinging’

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DollyLongstaff wrote:

The Repubs also failed to take any responsibility for denying funding requests to beef up security at the embassy.

Yes they did!! denied the funds...and look at what happened...But as usual...they put the blame on Secretary HC and President Obama.
 

The sister of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, said she doesn't blame former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for what happened.

"It is clear, in hindsight, that the facility was not sufficiently protected by the State Department and the Defense Department. But what was the underlying cause? Perhaps if Congress had provided a budget to increase security for all missions around the world, then some of the requests for more security in Libya would have been granted.
Certainly the State Department is underbudgeted".

(Yet they wasted $7 million on trying to get Hillary and failed???)

Anne Stevens told The New Yorker. "I do not blame Hillary Clinton or Leon Panetta."

Stevens said they were "balancing security efforts at embassies and missions around the world.""And their staffs were doing their best to provide what they could with the resources they had," she said.

 "The Benghazi Mission was understaffed. We know that now. But, again, Chris knew that. It wasn’t a secret to him. He decided to take the risk to go there. It is not something they did to him. It is something he took on himself."

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