The Intelligence Committees in both the House and the Senate
have equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats. Foreign intelligence is
supposed to be bipartisan. In this case it's obvious that the report is a
compromise that the Democrats could accept which spares the intelligence
community any blame. I don't understand how nobody was on alert on September
11, 2012, the anniversary of the 2001 attack. There were no fighter bombers,
tanker aircraft or strategic reaction ground security forces on alert anywhere
in the region. Benghazi is a port, but there were no navy ships in the area for
fire support. The attack went on for 13 hours. All during that time, as I
understand it, there was only one unarmed drone that managed to be over
Benghazi during the attack. No air support was even launched from Aviano and
there were not air refueling aircraft in Sicily to meet them even if they were
launched. That situation, a totally unprepared military, is what an
intelligence failure looks like.
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