Friday, January 17, 2014

Comments And Reactions Still Continue On The U.S. Senate Benghazi Report

A burnt car is parked at the US consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen in Benghazi. Reuters

The Real Scandal -- Stephen F. Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard

Why are the Benghazi killers still at large?

Months and months ago, when Barack Obama could be bothered to say anything at all about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, the president promised to bring the perpetrators to justice. That was before White House spokesman Jay Carney dismissed the attacks as something that “happened a long time ago.”

It’s been 16 months. The U.S. government has neither captured nor killed a single participant in those attacks, which left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead.

Why? A new report on the attacks from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, along with more than 400 pages of newly declassified congressional testimony from senior military officials, provides fresh insight. The explanation for this failure—a lack of will, combined with a shameless mischaracterization of intelligence—is almost as outrageous as the failure itself.

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More Comments And Reactions On The U.S. Senate Benghazi Report

The Last Thing You Need to Read About Benghazi -- Bloomberg editorial
Senate committee: Real Benghazi scandal was not the talking points -- L.A. Times
Benghazi Attack: 5 Things We Learned from US Senate Panel -- IBTimes
Fog of Benghazi: Al Qaeda, Dead Americans and an Emerging Threat -- James Gordon Meek, ABC News
Benghazi and blame -- Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street Journal
Lessons of Benghazi -- Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Mrs. Clinton, the truth about Benghazi does make a difference -- Michael Ingmire, FOX News
Obama invisible in media coverage of Benghazi report -- Rick Moran, Commentary

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