Dems Shift Blame to Protect Clinton in Benghazi Report
Democrats on the House Benghazi Committee released their own report Monday excusing Hillary Clinton ahead of the full committee report which is expected to be sharply critical of the Democratic nominee.
In the report, Democrats says that while the State Department’s security measures were “woefully inadequate,” Clinton herself never personally denied requests for increased security. Thus even in admitting to the existence of a serious systemic failure and offering 12 recommendations to alleviate it, Democrats were unwilling to assign blame to the former secretary of state.
The goal of the preemptive separate release is to cast doubt on the majority report in the coming days or weeks, again showing the Democrats to be more concerned with blame-shifting and political maneuvering than with exposing the truth.
According to CNN, the report also excused the Obama administration’s inaction in deploying military personnel to rescue the Americans, saying “the Pentagon could not have done anything on the night of the attacks that would have saved the lives of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans.”
Democrats have consistently labeled the investigation a political witch hunt and “conspiracy theory,” a claim which they reiterated again in their final report.
The Associated Press reports that the panel’s five Democrats called the two-year investigation “one of the most partisan congressional investigations in history.”
A much different tone can be expected in the House Benghazi Committee’s upcoming majority report. (For more from the author of “Dems Shift Blame to Protect Clinton in Benghazi Report” please click HERE)
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