>1) The administration left the embassy with lax protection and basically downplayed the 41 acts of violence by Al Sharia in the months before the Benghazi attack (including attacking a Red Cross location, which prompted the British to close their embassy after reports that Al Sharia had infiltrated the local police.) This is fact and is indisputable.
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OK. I'll stipulate that

>2) The administration knew that admitting a planned attack (that left four Americans dead) by an Al-Q affiliate on the anniversary of 9/11 would be DEVASTATING for the re-election campaign, given that Obama had just promoted the theme of "bin Laden is dead, Al-Q is on the run". So they tried to lump the protests in Cairo with the Benghazi attack and tried to blame the attack on the stupid YouTube video. Two individuals have said they heard Hillary say to the father of one of the deceased (at the funeral), "don't worry, we will get the man who made this video".
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>Even with sufficient evidence that has come out in the emails (that both the CIA and State Department knew it was a planned attack), the administration pushed a false election year narrative . Hillary threw one of her people under the bus and had Susan Rice go out and make those ridiculous claims on 5 news shows. Fact and indisputable.
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OK. They pushed a fake election year narrative.

>3) The information on Hillary's email server and possible violations of federal law would not have come about without the Benghazi committee.
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OK. I'll agree to that
>The reason I was asking the question is that I sometimes wonder if people understand what Benghazi was all about. There is also the separate issue of whether the military was prepared enough to respond to such an attack.
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>So the reaction by the left in their nitpicking of McCarthy's statement hardly discredits the failure of this administration regarding Benghazi.
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OK

So... let's see. Someone failed to provide security.
Hmm I guess you had an equal reaction to the disaster at the marine barracks in Lebanon where almost 300 marines died on Reagan's watch.
These things happen. It's regrettable. The way to handle this is to let the people responsible suggest better ways, if any to secure these places.
TV hearings?


So... let's see. Someone put out a false story about what happened.
Yawn.
So what?

The issue you're missing is why were any Americans in Lybia in the first place?
Hillary and Obama blew the whole operation by having anyone there at all.
The problem for the repubs is that they wanted those people there too.