Rand Paul: 'Benghazi was the definition of an intelligence failure'

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Rand Paul on the House Intelligence Committee's Benghazi Report:


RAND PAUL: 'BENGHAZI WAS THE DEFINITION OF AN INTELLIGENCE FAILURE'

by SEN. RAND PAUL 1 Dec 2014, 7:01 AM

The House Intelligence Committee released its long-awaited Benghazi report Friday, claiming, “There was no intelligence failure prior to the attacks.”

This one sentence tells us how seriously we should take this report.

Benghazi was the definition of an intelligence failure. It was, in fact, one of the worst intelligence failures in our history, a strategic blunder that resulted in the murder of a U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans.

The ultimate blame lies with the Obama Administration and more directly with Hillary Clinton who oversaw this tragedy during her tenure as Secretary of State. No rational person has ever disputed that our government failed horribly in protecting the U.S. embassy and our diplomats.*

Americans just wanted to know who was responsible.

Now, a Congressional Committee chaired by Rep. Mike Rogers is telling us no one is responsible because there was no intelligence failure to begin with.

It might be time to rename the House “Intelligence” Committee.

This administration has changed the talking points and ignored important questions about Benghazi throughout—when the administration knew what was happening, why did it happen, was it terrorism, who ignored Ambassador Christopher Stevens security requests, who told Susan Rice the consulate was secure, the list of questions goes on. These questions remain unanswered or insufficiently answered and are crucial to getting to the bottom of what really happened.

The Associated Press claims the report debunks, “A series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.”

None of these accusations contain even a modicum of truth?…

(continued) http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/29/Benghazi-Report

[RonZeplin]

“There was no intelligence failure prior to the attacks.”

So the movie was so bad, that the critics attacked the CIA embassy?

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It might be time to rename the House “Intelligence” Committee.
haha. oxymorons....

[fr33]

Judging by the comments at Breitbart (about half positive half negative), Rand has pissed off some Republicans. "not muh CIA! how dare you criticize them!"

[alucard13mm]

I dont think most people care about Benghazi.. especially if its geared towards Hillary. Tis a flesh wound to Hillary.

[jmdrake]

The intelligence failure of Bengazi began with the decision to overthrow Khadafi. Khadafi had renounced terrorism and had give up his WMD programs. We allied with Al Qaeda to overthrow him and served as their air force in a "kinetic action." The next failure was having an embassy operating inside a failed state. The next failure was not having adequate security at that embassy or at the very least a rapid extraction force nearby. The next failure was not pulling the ambassador when he sent messages the week before the attack saying that he was not safe.

Now there is also an obvious political failure. Just having republicans in positions of power is not enough to keep democrats in check and vice versa. Obama protected Bush from CIA torture allegations. In return Mike Rogers is protecting Obama and Hillary from Bengazi embarrassment. Mike Rogers should get a primary challenger over this.

[jmdrake]

I dont think most people care about Benghazi.. especially if its geared towards Hillary. Tis a flesh wound to Hillary.

It all depends on how it gets played. Most thought Willie Horton was a flesh wound to Michael Dukakis until Lee Attwater made Horton the "most famous black man in America." Most civil war deaths resulted from soldiers being infected through flesh wounds.

[Feeding the Abscess]

The intelligence failure of Bengazi began with the decision to overthrow Khadafi. Khadafi had renounced terrorism and had give up his WMD programs. We allied with Al Qaeda to overthrow him and served as their air force in a "kinetic action." The next failure was having an embassy operating inside a failed state. The next failure was not having adequate security at that embassy or at the very least a rapid extraction force nearby. The next failure was not pulling the ambassador when he sent messages the week before the attack saying that he was not safe.

Now there is also an obvious political failure. Just having republicans in positions of power is not enough to keep democrats in check and vice versa. Obama protected Bush from CIA torture allegations. In return Mike Rogers is protecting Obama and Hillary from Bengazi embarrassment. Mike Rogers should get a primary challenger over this.

He's retiring in a few weeks.

[Mr.NoSmile]

The whole Benghazi witch hunt again...

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Idk about Benghazi and specifically linking HRC to it anymore..........