"GOP-Controlled Intelligence Committee Debunks Benghazi Conspiracies"

GOP-Controlled Intelligence Committee Debunks Benghazi Conspiracies

By Jeremy Stahl at Slate

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/11/21/gop_controlled_house_intelligence_committee_debunks_benghazi_conspiracy.html

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Republican Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers of Michigan and the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, gave this statement as they released the report:

For over two years, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence exhaustively investigated the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi Libya. We spent thousands of hours asking questions, poring over documents, reviewing intelligence assessments, reading cables and emails, and held a total of 20 Committee events and hearings. We conducted detailed interviews with senior intelligence officials from Benghazi and Tripoli as well as eight security personnel on the ground in Benghazi that night. Based on the testimony and the documents we reviewed, we concluded that all the CIA officers in Benghazi were heroes. Their actions saved lives.


The report echoed the findings of a similar bipartisan review panel by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released earlier this year along with five previous investigations.


The Benghazi Select Committee, created by House Speaker John Boehner, will continue to investigate Benghazi. A democratic member of that committee, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, urged it to shift its focus to security at State Department facilities

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