Declassified Bi-partisan Benghazi Report: "there was no intelligence failure"
August 7, 2014 at 8:04 am
http://democrats.intelligence.house.gov/...azi-report
So it looks like the release of the report was buried due to it happening on a Friday afternoon, but the key details are:
So it looks like the release of the report was buried due to it happening on a Friday afternoon, but the key details are:
- Intelligence agencies were "warned about an increased threat environment, but did not have specific tactical warning of an attack before it happened."
- "A mixed group of individuals including those associated with Al-Qaeda, Qadafi loyalists and other Libyan militias participated in the attack"
- "There was no “stand down order” given to American personnel attempting to offer assistance that evening, and no American was left behind."
- "The [administration's] process used to develop the talking points was flawed, but that the talking points reflected the conflicting intelligence assessments in the days immediately following the crisis."