According to the Senate report, “Four American official were killed during the during the Benghazi attacks in Sept. 11, 2012,”
The panel’s 85-page report placed blame for the incident first and foremost on armed Islamist militants — mostly associated with five groups closely tied to core-al Qaeda — but also with the State Department run by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose staff failed to heed incessant warnings that security was evaporating there.
During the investigation the investigator found, “no singular ‘tactical warning’ in the intelligence,” According to the report of multiply military intelligence that the the senators believe “provided ample strategic warning” of the rising danger to U.S. facilities and personnel in Benghazi.
The attacks that began at 9:45 p.m. that night resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith and CIA paramilitary operators Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, both former Navy SEALs.
According to the report, “Of greatest concern beforehand were militants, some of whom had established training camps, from Islamist extremist groups in North Africa with historic ties to Osama Bin Laden’s al Qaeda,”
Investigators found that, “individuals affiliated with terrorist groups … participated in the Sept. 12, 2012 attacks,” though no evidence shows that al Qaeda in Pakistan directly ordered the attacks the same day a video by Bin Laden’s successor Ayman al-Zawahiri was released.
The committee concluded, “Despite the clearly deteriorating situation in Benghazi and requests for additional security resources, few significant improvements were made by the State Department,”
According to the State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf on Wednesday, “There was no specific threat indicating an attack was coming. Obviously we have talked at length about the fact that we knew there were extremists and terrorists operating in Libya and in Benghazi. But again, we had no specific information indicating a threat — an attack was coming,”
Benghazi Attack, 4 American Official Killed, Stevens Didn't Encompass To Die
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