Imagine for just one minute that George Bush, or any Republican was in the White House, and this exact same report was released…… “Leadership failures” at the State Department, but Hillary’s all good…. unreal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An
independent panel charged with investigating the deadly Sept. 11 attack
in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has
concluded that
systematic management and leadership failures at the State Department led to “grossly” inadequate security at the mission in Benghazi. (
full report here)
“Systematic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at
senior levels within two bureaus of the State Department resulted in a
Special Mission security posture that was inadequate for Benghazi and
grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place,” the panel
said.
The report singled out the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the
Bureau of Near East Affairs for criticism, saying there appeared to be a
lack of cooperation and confusion over protection at the mission in
Benghazi, a city in Eastern Libya that was relatively lawless after the
revolution that toppled Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
Despite those failures, the Accountability Review Board determined that
no individual officials ignored or violated their duties and recommended *no disciplinary action now. But it also said
poor performance by senior managers should be grounds for disciplinary recommendations in the future.
*So next time they kill four people, they’re gonna be in some trouble….
The report appeared to break little new ground about the timeline of
the Benghazi attack during which