Bipartisan Senate report: Benghazi murders were preventable; Obama knew video not behind attacks

A bipartisan committee report has ruled that the Benghazi consulate attacks were preventable and al Qaeda was behind the first murder of a US Ambassador since the Jimmy Carter presidency.

From the Washington Post:

A long-delayed Senate intelligence committee report released on Wednesday spreads blame among the State Department and intelligence agencies for not preventing attacks on two outposts in Libya that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

The bipartisan report lays out more than a dozen findings regarding the assaults on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012 on the diplomatic compound and a CIA annex in the Libyan city of Benghazi. It says the State Department failed to increase security at the sites despite warnings, and faults intelligence agencies for not sharing information about the existence of the CIA outpost with the U.S. military.

The committee determined that the U.S. military command in Africa didn't know about the CIA annex, and the Pentagon didn't have the resources in place to defend the diplomatic compound in an emergency.

"The attacks were preventable, based on extensive intelligence reporting on the terrorist activity in Libya—to include prior threats and attacks against Western targets—and given the known security shortfalls at the U.S. Mission," the panel said in a statement.

Also, it was revealed yesterday that the Z-List anti-Islam YouTube video had nothing to do with the attacks and the White House knew it almost immediately. Yet Obama and his minions pushed that falsehood for two weeks because there was an election in two months.

Obama lied. Again.

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