\n<\/a>WND.com<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012<\/p><\/div>\n
NEW YORK \u2013 U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., is being criticized for failing to blame President Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enough in the 800-page final majority report of the Benghazi Select Committee he chaired.<\/p>\n
The committee looked into the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, in a terror attack on U.S. facilities \u2013 just a few weeks prior to an election in which Obama had been campaigning on the claim that al-Qaida was in retreat.<\/p>\n
Conservative critics were quick to speculate that Gowdy may have risked his career allowing to be published a majority report described as a \u201cwhitewash\u201d that allowed Democrats to press claims the GOP had wasted millions of taxpayer dollars producing nothing that had not been previously reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cI simply ask the American people to read this report for themselves, look at the evidence we have collected, and reach their own conclusions,\u201d Gowdy insisted at a press conference held by the GOP members of the committee, confirming the unwillingness of the GOP majority to place blame on the Obama administration, either president or secretary of state, over the Benghazi terrorist attack.<\/p>\n
Jordan and Pompeo speak out<\/b><\/p>\n
As WND reported,<\/a> two Republican members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued a separate report in which they concluded both Clinton and Obama lied and covered up to protect themselves politically from voter resentment over the terror attack that killed Stevens and the others.<\/p>\n While not criticizing Gowdy or the majority report directly, Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., submitted their own statement, identified as \u201cAdditional Views,\u201d in an obvious attempt to correct what the two GOP congressmen saw as a failure of the majority report to draw conclusions critical of Obama and Clinton in an election year.<\/p>\n \u201cOfficials at the State Department, including Secretary Clinton, learned almost in real time that the attack in Benghazi was a terrorist attack,\u201d wrote Jordan and Pompeo in their 51-page separate opinion that charged Obama and Clinton with what amounts to dereliction of duty for their failure to provide sufficient security at Benghazi, their refusal to deploy any military resources that could have arrived in time to launch a rescue mission, and their political decision to characterize the event as a protest over an anti-Islam Internet video when real-time intelligence clearly established the attack was a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n Gowdy\u2019s majority report \u2018a disgrace\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n Brent Bozell, president of the Washington-based Media Research Center, was quick to object to the report, arguing Gowdy\u2019s failure to produce a majority report as strong as the separate opinion filed by Jordan and Pompeo reflected the extent to which the GOP establishment leadership in Washington was willing to cave into pressure from the Obama White House.<\/p>\n \u201cI am stunned by the GOP\u2019s unwillingness to accomplish anything<\/i> in Congress, which now extends to resolving investigations,\u201d Bozell said in a statement released to the press after the publication of the select committee\u2019s final majority report.<\/p>\n \u201cTrey Gowdy\u2019s continued admonition that it\u2019s up to the American people to reach their own conclusions about Benghazi is an obfuscation,\u201d Bozell continued. \u201cIt was up to him to get to the truth, and he punted.\u201d<\/p>\n Bozell compared Gowdy\u2019s failure to the failure of the GOP majority in Congress to take action against the IRS despite disclosures the IRS had complied with Obama administration wishes to delay or deny tea party applicants\u00a0501(c) tax-exempt status in a politically discriminatory fashion.<\/p>\n \u201cJust as with the IRS investigation, the Republicans lacked the fortitude to confront those responsible,\u201d Bozell continued. \u201cWho denied the multiple requests for additional security for the compound? No answer. Who is being held responsible for the deaths of these men? No answer. Why did this administration deliberately lie about the video? No answer.\u201d<\/p>\n Clearly, Bozell argued, the failure of the Obama administration to protect or save the four Americans in the organized terror attack by Islamists cried out for the identification and punishment of the Obama administration officials, including Clinton, who were responsible for the failure.<\/p>\n \u201cShould the commander-in-chief be held responsible for the multiple failures of the military?\u201d Bozell asked. \u201cShould the secretary of state be held responsible for the disastrous consequences of State Department decisions?<\/p>\n \u201cNot according to this report,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t even state that Hillary Clinton lied about the video though her own emails, read by committee members, prove she had! But they did blame a \u2018rusty bureaucratic process.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t get more Washington than that. Everyone involved in this charade disgraced himself.\u201d<\/p>\n Gowdy \u2018sold out\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n The danger Gowdy faces, given the sharp reaction of well-respected conservative media analysts such as Bozell, is that core constituencies within the GOP will conclude Gowdy has \u201csold out\u201d to Washington-based GOP leaders including former House Speaker John Boehner, current House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, by being unwilling to challenge Obama supporters, including Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi.<\/p>\n Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<\/p><\/div>\n As WND reported just hours after the final majority report was released, the five Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi, <\/a>along with ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, put out a stern statement against Gowdy, saying the former prosecutor who chaired the panel mishandled the entire investigation.<\/p>\n \u201cIn our opinion, Chairman Gowdy has been conducting this investigation like an overzealous prosecutor desperately trying to land a front-page conviction rather than a neutral judge of facts seeking to improve the security of our diplomatic corps,\u201d the Democrats claimed in a letter reported by the Hill.<\/p>\n On Monday, the Democrats on the Benghazi select committee captured headlines by releasing a minority report<\/a> exonerating Clinton. They charged the committee was formed by Republicans only to keep the former secretary of state from winning the White House.<\/p>\n![\"Former](\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Hillary-Clinton-Defends-Handling-Of-Benghazi-Attack.jpg\")
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