The GOP-controlled House Intelligence Committee has released the results of a two-year investigation into the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. The committee found that the CIA and the military acted correctly in response to the attack and did not assert any mistake on the part of the Obama administration’s appointees. The committee debunked several conspiracy-like allegations and found there was no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no intelligence failure, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence to suggest that the CIA was secretly sending weapons from Libya to Syria. The committee also found that after the attack, intelligence about who the attackers were and why they attacked was contradictory, which led U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice to mistakenly assert that the attack evolved from a protest. The committee found that it was intelligence analysts who made the wrong call and no political appointees acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the public.
