By now you have most likely read or heard as much as you care to about the House Select Committee’s Report on Benghazi. I hope, however, that includes the reading of the entire 700-page report, as Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) requests, because, rest assured, most of the media will not.
The New York Times headline, for instance, reads “House Benghazi Report Finds No New Evidence of Wrongdoing By Hillary.”
If you read only the 48 pages of the Additional Views of Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Pompeo (R-KS), published at the end of the full committee report, it will be worth your while. In their conclusion, they hit the nail on the head with this statement:
“What we did find is a tragic failure of leadership – in the run up to the attack and the night of – and an administration that, so blinded by politics and its desire to win an election, disregarded a basic duty of government: Tell the people the truth.”
You see, with the election just 53 days off, President Obama, supported by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, didn’t want this terrorist attack on a U.S. compound to muddy his reelection. Unbelievably, President Obama refused to sit for his intelligence briefing the morning after the attack as he was preparing to depart for a fund raiser in Las Vegas.
Although the White House and the State Department stonewalled all attempts by the committee to gain information with reasonable speed, the committee was able to derive its findings from heretofore unavailable documents and many interviews.
While Republicans have been attacked, primarily by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), for targeting Clinton politically, Donald Trump was mentioned 23 times in his minority report.
In their Benghazi report, Democrats depict our warriors with an American flag backdrop, but help never came. Note the use of “exploitation of a tragedy” in their title.
The Democrat minority report went to some length to support the Accountability Review Board report, which I have discredited here in the past. You will recall that Clinton herself named the board members, who, in the preparation of their findings, didn’t travel to Benghazi, and didn’t interview Clinton.
Ironically, the Democrat’s version of the report, “Honoring Courage, Improving Security, and Fighting the Exploitation of a Tragedy,“ depicts on its cover (at left) five of our armed warriors, weapons raised, in front of an American flag. While Obama and Clinton dithered, no such forces came to the aid of our people in Benghazi.
Clinton can continue to cite the 11 hours, answering all of the questions of the House Select Committee, and referencing the $7 million spent on the investigation, I believe those who read the majority report will see her for what she is – not trustworthy, and definitely not a leader.
You may not like Trump, but don’t make the mistake of easing the way for Clinton by not voting.
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