DAMNING

Benghazi Report: Hillary Should’ve Known

800 pages from House Republicans’ panel.

House Republicans are set to release a report Tuesday that details the findings of a two-year investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans. In 800 pages, the House Select Committee describes rapidly worsening security in Libya and insufficient resources in the months leading up to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack. Hillary Clinton has said she was aware of dangers in the country but that “there was no actionable intelligence” to indicate a planned attack. The report contends that intelligence suggested an attack and that Clinton should have understood those risks. The report is said to describe how U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was at the U.S. compound with only two State Department bodyguards that night, despite the fact that British diplomats had evacuated the area months earlier. The report contends that confusing orders from Pentagon and State Department officials over whether Marines should wear military uniforms or civilian attire created part of a deadly delay from responders. While forces prepared to deploy, according to one commander, “during the course of three hours, he and his Marines changed in and out of their uniforms four times.”