Benghazi: Report concludes the State Department’s internal investigation let leadership off the hook

  According to a new report, the internal investigation that was conducted by the State Department unfairly put the blame for allowing the Benghazi attack to happen on mid-level employees while letting the department leaders off the hook:

The State Department’s investigation into the Sept. 12, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi was not independent and failed to hold senior State Department officials accountable for the failures that led to the death of four Americans, according to a new investigative report compiled by the House Oversight Committee.

The Administrative Review Board, chosen by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, unfairly placed the blame for the terrorist attack on four mid-level officials while ignoring the role of very senior officials in Clinton’s State Department for decisions about security in Benghazi, according to the new report led by Chairman Darrell Issa 

“The ARB blamed systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies within two bureaus, but downplayed the importance of decisions made at senior levels of the Department. Witnesses questioned how much these decisions influenced the weaknesses that led to the inadequate security posture in Benghazi,” the report stated. “The ARB’s decision to cite certain officials as accountable for what happened in Benghazi appears to have been based on factors that had little or no connection to the security posture at U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya

  This is not an earth shattering revelation, hell, this is not even news: Of course this is what happened for this is what the internal investigation was designed to do in the first place. Naturally the internal investigation was going to scapegoat lower level employees while leaving the leadership off the hook; this was just an attempt to appear as if the department was holding somebody accountable while protecting those in power. Is anyone really surprised by this? This is why it is time for an independent investigation.

  The only question is; what is the Congress going to do about it?