Fienstein drives the bus over Hillary

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I guess I was wrong about Hillary being thrown under the bus by Obama --- Fienstein and the rest of the Senate Committee investigating Benghazi just mowed her down in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue...

http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/benghazi2014/benghazi.pdf

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2014/01/17/hillary-gets-knifed-in-benghazi-drive-by-n1780493
 
FINDING #1: In the months before the attacks on September 11,2012, the Intelligence Community (IC) provided ample strategic warning that the security situation in eastern Libya was deteriorating and that U.S. facilities and personnel were at risk in Benghazi

FINDING #2: The State Department should have increased its security posture more significantly in Benghazi based on the deteriorating security situation on the ground and IC threat reporting on the prior attacks against Westerners in Benghazi -- including two incidents at the Temporary Mission Facility on April 6 and June 6, 2012

FINDING #3: FINDING #3: There was no singular "tactical warning" in the intelligence reporting leading up to the events on September 11, 2012, predicting an attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi on the 9/11 anniversary, although State and CIA both sent general warning notices to facilities worldwide noting the potential security concerns associated with the anniversary. Such a specific
warning should not have been expected, however, given the limited intelligence collection of the Benghazi area at the time.

FINDING #4: Although the IC relied heavily on open source press reports in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the IC conducted little analysis of open source extremist-affiliated social media prior to and immediately after the attacks.

FINDING #5: There were "tripwires" designed to prompt a reduction in personnel or the suspension of operations at the Mission facility in Benghazi and although there is evidence that some of them had been crossed, operations continued with minimal change. Some nations closed their diplomatic facilities in Benghazi as the security conditions deteriorated during the
summer of 2012, but other nations stayed along with the United States, contrary to some public reports and statements that the U.S. was the last country represented in Benghazi.

FINDING #6: The State Department personnel at the Temporary Mission Facility in Benghazi relied on the security officers at the CIA Annex as a last resort for security in the event of an attack.

FINDING #7: There were no U.S. military resources in position to intervene in short order in Benghazi to help defend the Temporary Mission Facility and its Annex on September 11 and 12, 2012.

FINDING #8: Unarmed U.S. military surveillance assets were not delayed when responding to the attack, and they provided important situational awareness for those under siege during the attacks against the Temporary Mission Facility and the Annex on September 11 and 12, 2012.

FINDING #9: In finished reports after September 11, 2012, intelligence analysts inaccurately referred to the presence of a protest at the Mission facility before the attack based on open source information and limited intelligence, but without sufficient intelligence or eyewitness statements to corroborate that assertion. The IC took too long to correct these erroneous reports, which caused confusion and influenced the public statements of policymakers.

FINDING #10: The State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) did not disseminate any independent analysis in the year following the Benghazi attacks.

FINDING #11: The DNI's Office of Analytic Integrity and Standards (AIS) failed to provide complete and accurate information to Congress during its review of the Benghazi attacks. The Committee found AIS's methodology in assembling documents to be flawed. Despite repeated requests from the Committee, AIS also refused to provide complete, accurate, and thoroughly cited information to Congress.

FINDING #12: The co-location of IC and diplomatic personnel in Benghazi could have enhanced security; but co-location often presents tradeoffs that should be carefully evaluated in high-threat environments.

FINDING #13: The primary Sollr¢e of security for the Temporary Mission Facility, local Libyan militia members, failed to provide any significant defense of the compound from the attack.

FINDING #14: More than a year after the Benghazi attacks, the terrorists who perpetrated the attacks have still not been brought to justice. The IC has identified several individuals responsible for the attacks. Some of the individuals have been identified with a strong level of confidence. However, insight into the current whereabouts and links between these individuals in some cases is limited due in part to the nascent intelligence capabilities in the region.
From the conclusion:
 
...It is also imperative that those in decision making positions in Washington D.C. heed the concerns and wisdom of those on the front lines and make resource and security decisions with those concerns in mind. The United States Government did not meet this standard of care in Benghazi...
Clearly, the State Department got the worst of the blame here, and the Pentagon & rest of the Administration seems to have gotten a pass.

I don't see how Hillary can wipe this one off her pant suit. This isn't coming from Issa or the House --- it's authored by fellow Democrats and her former Senate colleagues.
 
Funny did you forget Ryan and his buddies voted and passed a cut in funding in security for embassy?
 
Nice spin, but, that's been long debunked. First, Obama, Harry, and Scary also signed the bill that passed both houses.

Second, when the Department of Prisons is faced with a budget cut, do you think they start with reducing security at the Supermax, or do you think they'd want to look at low security facilities first?

State's budgets were cut by ~5% worldwide. If the only solution State could come up with given the budget was to start cutting security in the places that actually needed it, then they deserve even more criticism than they already have received.