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The Senate report is followed by a number of Appendices: Timeline of events, Democrats on Talking Points Memo (TPM) of Susan Rice, Republicans on TPM and culpability Secretary Hillary Clinton and separate remarks Sen. Susan Collins.
Documents Released on Benghazi Attack of 11 September 2011
(The Hill) – After publication of the recent NY Times article by Kirkpatrick, Sen. Dianne Feinstein reacted as follows:
“The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said that key conclusions of a recent New York Times investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attack are wrong.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) rejected the Times’s conclusion that al Qaeda wasn’t responsible for the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. She also took issue with the notion that the Libya strike was sparked by a U.S.-made anti-Islam video online.”
The committee’s 58-page report concludes intelligence reports contributed to the “talking points” that inaccurately referred to protests at the U.S. facility ahead of the attack. That information was presented by then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice the weekend after the attack, creating a political storm that helped sink her possible nomination for secretary of State.
The report says individuals involved had ties to al Qaeda affiliates, contradicting a recent New York Times story that said al Qaeda had no role in the attack. At the same time, the report notes the attack was “opportunistic” and was not highly coordinated.
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