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Originally Posted by Rochard
I haven't been following this too closely, but I fail to understand what they are getting at - and what they claiming was done wrong. There was a terrorist attack, and we did not have advanced warning. We did have a quick reaction force that was some what local, but they wouldn't have gotten there in time to change anything, and something like that is used as a last resort - it is effectively invading another country.
It seems like the CIA was involved and their facility was attacked, but this changes nothing about anything. The CIA operates in a lot of countries, to date it seems like the CIA has done nothing wrong, broken no laws, and the CIA has always used the State Department for cover.
There might have been some spin after the event, but that is what our government does when the CIA is involved. Always.
There is no evidence of any wrong doing by anyone.
This is just a waste of time and a waste of money in an attempt to make Hillary look bad. I am not fond of Hillary, but this is politics at it's worse.
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The republicans will argue that there were several requests made to Clinton's office to increase security in Benghazi and Clinton denied them all. After the attacks the first story was that they were provoked by a video that had been released and the attackers were angry about the video. In reality it appears to have been an organized Al Qaeda attacks. Republicans will try to make it look like Clinton (and to a lesser degree Obama) tried to cover this up as a terrorist attack because it will make them look bad.
The reality is that there was likely spotty intelligence, a mistake was made by not sending more security and an attack happened taking American lives. No grand conspiracy, no big cover-up. Since Clinton is the front runner for the democrats the republicans will do anything they have to in order discredit her and hurt her chances (and the same would be happening if the parties were reversed). I bet if Clinton had just retired and was living a quiet life right now we wouldn't be hearing anything of it.