*b/c we obviously should take obama's word on everything
— Ryan (@chasinghumility) November 21, 2014
The House Intelligence Committee has reportedly concluded its seventh investigation into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi:
A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.
Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, intelligence about who carried it out and why was contradictory, the report found. That led Susan Rice, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to inaccurately assert that the attack had evolved from a protest, when in fact there had been no protest. But it was intelligence analysts, not political appointees, who made the wrong call, the committee found. The report did not conclude that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people.
And the dedicated practitioners of “real journalism” are greeting the news with their characteristic professionalism:
Another #Benghazi investigation blows up in Republicans' faces as their own conspiracy theories are debunked http://t.co/wS7cn4CeLO
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 21, 2014
Solyndra! Solyndra! Solyndra!
OK Solyndra wasn't really a scandal but
Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!
OK Benghazi wasn't really a scandal but— Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) November 21, 2014
This is seriously the most hilarious Friday news dump ever http://t.co/f9lAVEBFVF
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 21, 2014
This is just hilarious in the micro because #cmonson, but tragic in the macro because #America: http://t.co/hpSX0ha06a (#analysis)
— Sam Laird (@samcmlaird) November 21, 2014
Oh yes. Just hilarious.
https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/535936013579730944
https://twitter.com/drgrist/status/535928674281717760
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/535923767487524864
Could have saved a lot of paper/pixels by just issuing this as the #benghazi report. #nevermind pic.twitter.com/UfvgyvCm6k
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) November 21, 2014
i don't know, it's not like liberals & people who aren't cynical or insane have been saying this shit for years idk. http://t.co/Lgv0AV91av
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) November 21, 2014
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/535946924197949440
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/535926788674056193
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/535932622246268928
Biggest abuse of power regarding Benghazi turns out to be media huffing and puffing about it for years.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) November 21, 2014
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/535939893068050432
With key officials cleared of wrongdoing in #Benghazi, it's time we ask where Jonathan Gruber was that night http://t.co/S4hZIiOREl
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 21, 2014
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Ihttp://t.co/djq8GpWWwJ#Benghazi— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) November 21, 2014
No, Ron. You should be ashamed. You and all your media colleagues who are so eager to stick it to people who actually care about the four brave Americans who were murdered on September 11, 2012. In case you missed it, jackasses, those men are still dead. Their families are still in mourning.
Uh, because the GOP said requests for more security were denied? Or that it wasn’t a video? https://t.co/1GEF6XLZOu @ron_fournier
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 21, 2014
Are lefty journos really going to pretend the Benghazi inquiry wasn’t started because The White House lied about a video?
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 21, 2014
Sure they are. They haven’t been interested in doing their jobs before. Why should they start now?
Oh, NOW, it’s newsworthy, huh? https://t.co/fdlZBkkncQ
— Peter Cook (@_Peter_Cook) November 21, 2014
yes, b/c dead ambassadors are all of a sudden hilarious…
— Ryan (@chasinghumility) November 21, 2014
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/535928910022594560
https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/535931263249428480
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/535932159576784896
Hacktastic! And amateurish. RT @ron_fournier: B
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Ihttp://t.co/b4ViG53JuG#Benghazi— (((WitCoHE))) (@E__Strobel) November 21, 2014
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/535935215248494593
Gosh, with journos behaving like poo-flinging monkeys over it, I can just imagine the discussion about the timing of the report.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) November 21, 2014
you shitheads spent 3 years not reporting. NOW you crank out the snaky tweets? get over yourselves…
— Ryan (@chasinghumility) November 21, 2014
@ron_fournier and you call yourself a journalist? Seriously, what the fuck is the matter with journalism in this country? #unprofessional
— Mr. Miller (@JmeMiller1974) November 21, 2014
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
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