WASHINGTON – House Republicans on the Benghazi Select Committee released their long-awaited report today. Committee members say their findings show that the administration was culpable, specifically pointing to politically motivated bureaucratic delays for failing to prevent or stop the deadly attacks that claimed four American lives.
Read the full report: http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo
The Committee says it compiled the report by interviewing more than 80 witnesses who had never before been questioned by Congress, and obtaining more than 75,000 pages of new documents. The committee’s proposed report is just over 800 pages long and is comprised of five primary sections and 12 appendices. It details relevant events in 2011 and 2012.
Congressman Tom Reed (R-Corning, NY-23) said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that the report shows we have an Administration that is refusing to acknowledge its responsibility in this tragedy. The Corning Republican said he’s calling for the Administration, and all those involved, to be held accountable.
Meanwhile, Democrats on the committee were not allowed to co-author the report and accused the majority of shutting them out of the drafting and interview process. They issued their own findings Monday: a 339-page report that they say dispels “conspiracy theories” about the attacks. In it, they quote former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, who testified before the committee that he was still uncertain what exactly motivated the attackers to storm the diplomatic compound.
Where has Rep. Tom Reed been? After years of in depth investigation, over seven million dollars of taxpayer’s money spent, hundreds of interviews, Republican manipulation of emails, two different Chairmen ( Issa and Gowdy), the families of the fallen asking that their loved ones deaths not be politicized; Rep. Tom Reed still holds the tail of the long beaten horse – saying the Administration should admit their responsibility?
Perhaps Mr. Reed is still licking his wounds from his and the GOP failure to indict “all the way to the top” for the IRS “scandal”; Tom Reed demanded the Who, What, and When of that dismal waste of our money too, yet he and the GOP failed to produce any smoking gun there as well.
What about the responsibility of the Republican’s for their farcical lack of fiduciary responsibility? Tom Reed tells us continually that the US Debt is unfair to future generations as he and his irresponsible party continue to waste time and money on attempting to smear their opponents?