CIA timeline of events at Benghazi debunks Fox News claims of a coverup or conspiracy.

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

A detailed CIA timeline of the assault on U.S. facilities in Benghazi paints an anguishing picture of embattled Americans waiting for Libyan security forces who didn’t come and courageous CIA officers who died on a rooftop without the heavy weapons they needed, trying to protect their colleagues below. 

It’s a story of individual bravery, but also of a CIA misjudgment in relying on Libyan militias and a newly formed Libyan intelligence organization to keep Americans safe in Benghazi. 

While there were multiple errors that led to the final tragedy, there’s no evidence that the White House or CIA leadership deliberately delayed or impeded rescue efforts. 

The CIA is now reviewing its security plans around the world to make sure the agency isn’t relying on shaky local forces. This is a difficult task because the United States has vulnerable arrangements in dozens of places.

Essentially the timeline reveals that while there is blame to go around for not being adequately prepared these attacks there is no evidence of a conspiracy or a cover up.

The timeline also reveals, despite what Fox Noise wants you to believe, that the CIA DID dispatch a team to go to the compound in Benghazi only 24 minutes after being alerted that there was an attack. They met a larger force than they anticipated, and had a very dangerous and difficulty firefight, but they WERE attempting a rescue less than half an hour after they knew of an attack.

The report also states that there was evidence to suggest that extremists used the excuse provided by that anti-Islam video to attack a "variety of our embassies," which explains the initial confusion as to whether this was a planned attack or a more violent offshoot of the protests.

A rather important detail, that never seems to be mentioned on any of the so-called "liberal" media outlets that are supposedly in the tank for Obama, is something that I noticed in the report, where Secretary of State Clinton is quoted as saying.  “I take responsibility. I’m in charge of the State Department’s 60,000 people all over the world (at) 275 posts.”

Now think about that. On September 11, 2012, in the year that America had finally managed to kill Osama Bin Laden, there were 275 posts around the world (Many in Muslim countries), manned by 60,000 people.  Every one of who were potentially vulnerable to a retaliatory attack by some splinter Al-Qaeda group or another.

From that rather large number, while riots raged on many a street in the Middle East, ONLY four men lost their lives. Now the loss of even one life is one life too many, but those are still some impressive odds.

Clearly the Right Wing saw this situation as their last hope of finally going after Obama for being weak on defense, which had proved almost impossible after the death of Bin Laden, so they threw all of their resources at making this a huge scandal.

However in the old light of day, it is really nothing more than a very unfortunate incident, that NOBODY could have adequately predicted.

The real shame is that the opportunists over at Fox and on Right Wing radio politicized these deaths in a desperate attempt to damage this President that they so despise. If there really is a scandal here, THAT would be it.