Lessons of Benghazi
By Eugene Robinson, WashPost, Published: January 16
The bipartisan report on Benghazi released Wednesday by the Senate intelligence committee should finally convince conspiracy theorists of the obvious: There is no there there.
Administration officials did not orchestrate any kind of attempt, politically motivated or otherwise, to deceive the American people. In their public statements, including the infamous talking points, they relied on what intelligence analysts told them.
In other words, if Susan Rice was wrong when she went on the Sunday talk shows and said that the attacks were the violent outgrowth of a spontaneous anti-American demonstration in Libya rather than a long-planned terrorist assault, it was only because the intelligence community was wrong.
That said, the initial assessment given by Rice — then serving as ambassador to the United Nations, now as President Obama’s national security adviser — may turn out to have been correct. We don’t yet know. Says the report: “The IC [Intelligence Community] continues to review the amount and nature of any preplanning that went into the attacks.”
(More here.)
The bipartisan report on Benghazi released Wednesday by the Senate intelligence committee should finally convince conspiracy theorists of the obvious: There is no there there.
Administration officials did not orchestrate any kind of attempt, politically motivated or otherwise, to deceive the American people. In their public statements, including the infamous talking points, they relied on what intelligence analysts told them.
In other words, if Susan Rice was wrong when she went on the Sunday talk shows and said that the attacks were the violent outgrowth of a spontaneous anti-American demonstration in Libya rather than a long-planned terrorist assault, it was only because the intelligence community was wrong.
That said, the initial assessment given by Rice — then serving as ambassador to the United Nations, now as President Obama’s national security adviser — may turn out to have been correct. We don’t yet know. Says the report: “The IC [Intelligence Community] continues to review the amount and nature of any preplanning that went into the attacks.”
(More here.)
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