The Department of Defense and State Department were too busy determining whether Marines should wear uniforms or civilian clothing to deploy the assets in time, according to the findings. Gowdy said reading it “pillar to post” would take less time than Americans spent fighting for their lives that night. “That’s a word you couldn’t use in a courtroom.”Ĭommittee Republicans who unveiled the report at a news conference at the Capitol implored Americans to read it. When asked if Clinton lied, the former prosecutor added. Pressed on whether he endorses the GOP bumper-sticker slogan that “Hillary Lied, People Died” Gowdy said: “You don’t see that T-shirt on me, you haven’t seen that bumper sticker on any of my vehicles.” Mike Pompeo of Kansas called Clinton’s actions “morally reprehensible,” saying “you have every right to be disgusted” by the response from her and others.īut Gowdy said he’s not “in the business of apportioning culpability.” Republicans on the committee are divided over whether to directly blame Clinton. Nothing was on its way to Benghazi as a result of the Secretary’s initial order to deploy,” according to the report. “Not a single asset had launched, save the military personnel from Tripoli who did so on their own accord and whose presence no one in Washington seemed aware of when discussing which assets to deploy. “What was disturbing from the evidence the Committee found was that at the time of the final lethal attack at the Annex, no asset ordered deployed by the Secretary had even left the ground,” the report found. He said the Libyan forces that evacuated Americans from the CIA annex were not affiliated with any of the militias the CIA or State Department had developed a relationship with during the previous 18 months. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, the panel’s chairman, said: “Nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost eight hours after the attacks began.” The Sept.,11, 2012, attack by Islamic militants killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyrone S. The report states that US officials did not order military assets to be deployed to help the Americans under attack in Libya. The report, which details the committee’s official assessment of Clinton and the Obama administration’s handling of the terror attack that killed four Americans, was issued by the Republicans on the committee - the majority - after a two-year probe that cost upward of $7 million. “It is not clear what additional intelligence would have satisfied either Kennedy or the Secretary in understanding the Benghazi mission compound was at risk - short of an attack,” reads the section. This war-torn country is renting out its NYC office spaceįormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide ignored growing dangers at the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, as intelligence existed indicating an attack on the facility was possible, according to a report by the House Benghazi Select Committee, which released its 800-page analysis Tuesday. Why won’t the US government admit Iran funded the Benghazi attacks? Moderate Democrats should be demanding Jake Sullivan's head to prevent future disastersĮx-senator says Capitol riots were worse than Benghazi in shot at GOP