From Fox News.
The leaders of the panel that independently reviewed last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, said Tuesday they were prepared to testify publicly before Congress to counter what they consider unfounded criticism of their work.
In a letter to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, veteran diplomat Thomas Pickering said he and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen would answer any questions lawmakers have. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the panel, is pressing for the two men to agree to an interview with staff investigators prior to a public hearing.
The work of the Accountability Review Board is the latest focus of a broader Republican inquest into their claims that the Obama administration misled Congress and the American people after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
The blistering report released in December by Pickering, Mullen and three other reviewers found that “systematic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels” of the State Department meant security was “inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place.”
The whole goddamned “review” by the ARB was a whitewash. Hillary was never interviewed, and as a matter of fact, they absolved her without even questioning why she was AWOL.
All the blame was put on lower level State Department officials. Four were given paid suspensions.
If they think that qualifies as a complete report on the “systematic failures” of the State Department’s total apathy toward the vulnerability of the American embassy in Benghazi and the subsequent terrorist attack, they’re full of shit.
The first question right off the bat should be: Why wasn’t Hillary cornered on her failure to act and why did you see fit to use low level peons as scapegoats?
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