FINANCIAL TIMES: A Republican-controlled congressional committee said on Friday that Obama administration officials did not deliberately provide misleading information about a 2012 assault on the US consulate in Benghazi and said the CIA responded properly to the attack…
The report by the House intelligence committee, based on a two-year investigation, directly undercuts a series of politically charged accusations that the Republicans have levelled in the aftermath of the attack in Libya.
In particular, the report said that there was no evidence that US security personnel were stood down from helping individuals trapped in the consulate or that appeals for military help had been denied. It also concluded that the administration officials who initially and wrongly said the attack grew out of a protest were using information supplied by the intelligence com-munity… (more)
