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           House Panel: No Wrongdoing by US Military, CIA on Benghazi

   by VOA News

   A new congressional report concludes there was no wrongdoing by the
   U.S. military and the CIA in the response to the attack on the U.S.
   consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.

   The attack by Islamic extremists killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens
   and three other Americans.

   President Barack Obama's Republican critics allege the White House and
   State Department lied about the incident and ordered a CIA rescue team
   not to go into action.

   The latest report by the House Intelligence Committee was the seventh
   high-level investigation into the attack. It reached many of the same
   conclusions -- that there was no intelligence failure, the
   administration did not block a rescue attempt by the CIA, and there is
   no evidence the agency funneled weapons from Libya to the Syrian
   opposition.

   Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, Democrat Dutch
   Ruppersberger of Maryland, his party's ranking member on the panel, say
   the CIA officers in Benghazi were heroes who saved lives.

   The report says former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, the current national
   security adviser, had numerous faulty preliminary intelligence reports
   when she asserted on television that the attack rose out of a
   spontaneous process over an offensive anti-Muslim video.

   The report says Rice did not deliberately mislead the American people.
   It concludes that it is still unclear what motivated the attackers and
   exactly who they are. The report, however, did conclude that the
   diplomatic compound where Stevens was killed was not well-protected and
   that State Department security agents knew it could not be defended
   against a well-armed attack.

   The United States captured one of the alleged Benghazi ringleaders,
   Ahmed Abu Khatalla, earlier this year. He is facing trial in the United
   States.
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