No One In The U.S. Government Has (Or Will Be) Held Accountable For The Americans Murdered During The Benghazi Attack

No Accountability For Americans Murdered In Benghazi -- IBD Editorial

Accountability: As with Fast and Furious, the designated scapegoats for the deaths of Americans at the hands of administration bungling will merely be switching desks. Only the maker of that irrelevant video is in jail.

Reports of the resignation of four State Department officials after the Accountability Review Board's (ARB) review of State Department actions before during and after the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, may have been greatly exaggerated.

Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, has not resigned from the department, as a State Department spokeswoman indicated Dec. 19. Boswell is instead just "switching desks," according to a report in the New York Post.

Deputy Assistant Secretaries Charlene Lamb and Raymond Maxwell, and a third who has not been identified, were placed on administrative leave after the release of the report. However, according to the Post, they are expected to return.

They were found to have shown "performance inadequacies" but not "willful misconduct."

In other words, they were merely incompetent and didn't mean for Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other Americans to get murdered by Ansar al-Sharia, a terrorist group with al-Qaida links.

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My Comment: What is even worse is that none of the basic questions have been answered on what happened before/during/and after the Benghazi Consulate attack. Where was President Obama when this was happening .... what role (if any did he play), who pushed the anti-Muslim video narrative, who told the CIA contractors near the Benghazi consulate to stand down (they refused that order), and why were security concerns ignored by the State Department months before the attack.

But the thing that really bugs me is that it has now been over 100 days since the attack occurred .... intelligence and State have hours and hours of video tape and witness accounts .... but we still do not have in custody the perpetrators of this attack .... hell .... we still do not even know who was responsible for the attack.

Update: I know that the above Al Jazeera video report mentions that some U.S. State Department officials resigned when they have (in fact) just been shifted to other duties or were told to take time off.