Posted on 12/01/2014 10:40:19 AM PST by fredericbastiat1
For those left unsatisfied with the media’s uncritical and shallow coverage of the recently released Benghazi report from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, I wanted to pass along this just-published article, 10 major takeaways from the House Benghazi report that the media is completely ignoring, based on a careful read of the actual text of the report and appended documents.
The media’s unwillingness to actually study the report given the political value of the “headline” takeaways, not to mention its uncharacteristic lack of skepticism at an investigation conducted by a committee led by Republicans almost completely absolving the intelligence community of any wrongdoing or failure, based largely on evidence provided by a CIA that the media would ordinarily view with skepticism at best (and love to attack), concluding that the vast majority of the blame for Benghazi lay at the feet of a State Department at the time run by the media’s candidate in 2016, screams for a thorough examination.
As such, I hope this modest effort at an attempt to parse the documents, identifying the following takeaways, among others, is worthwhile:
(i) The report primarily absolves the IC of failure and wrongdoing, not the State Department, Department of Defense or executive branch (ii) The report attempts to deny U.S. facilitation of weapons transfers from Libya to Syria via Benghazi, but leaves a significant amount of yet unquestioned wiggle room (iii) Former Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell edited the talking points parroted publicly by Susan Rice following the attack, in a politically correct fashion, apparently so as to not offend/incite Muslims (iv) James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, in testimony, continued to partially attribute the attacks in Benghazi to a YouTube video, and argues that there is “linkage” to the event with the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo Egypt; HPSCI member Democrats also continue to attribute the attacks in part potentially to a YouTube video (v) The primary lesson the CIA learned from the Benghazi attack was…not to release unclassified talking points
“i” through “v” is five.
You said there were ten.
Where are the rest?
You wrote it, you can post it.
How do you know that the poster is the author?
OK. Thank you.
Does anyone know the status of the investigation of Trey Gowdy’s committee to investigate Benghazi? We were led to believe he would do an in depth investigation, but we have not seen anything yet. One would hope this report is not an attempt to pull the rug out from Gowdy. Let’s face it there are many backstabbing RINOS out there.
This is a referenced and thorough article of significant value. It is well worth clicking on and reading completely, and I encourage Freepers to do so.
(humblegunner, your utter lack of discrimination hurts what FR is about, and this is a perfect example. You're no better than a dog barking at cars and chasing them down the street, and just as absurd. A lot of people are doing good research work, leave them alone.)
If the “work” is so good, and he did it himself.. why not post the whole thing here?
Because like other good work on the Net that comes to Free Republic, he deserves the click.
Obviously.
Benghazi ping.
Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.
I nominate you for moderator.
You have played at it so well for so long - I hope you get the promotion.
(Why it bothers you so much that an author gets clicks - I will never understand that. You also never seem to be interested in the value of the content.)
Until you get post deletion privileges, is it ok if I bump the threads of the authors that you hound for posting here?
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
BTTT
Thanks for posting. It was very interesting.
Word.
Benghazi ping.
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"The laborer is worthy of his wages"
It is still ongoing. There was a post about his questioning of a witness here yesterday.
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