Well, That's Done... or not.

Last Thursday (July 31st) The House Intelligence Committee declassified the report of their two year investigation into the attack on the US outpost in Benghazi.  As Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), a member of the Committee told the San Francisco Chronicle, the final report "confirms that no one was deliberately misled, no military assets were withheld and no stand-down order (to U.S. forces) was given."
    The official statement from the Republican led committee says, "This report shows that there was no intelligence failure surrounding the Benghazi attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other brave Americans. Our investigation found the Intelligence Community warned about an increased threat environment, but did not have specific tactical warning of an attack before it happened, Americans which is consistent with testimony that the attacks appeared to be opportunistic.  It also found that a mixed group of individuals including those associated with Al-Qaeda, Qadafi loyalists and other Libyan militias participated in the attack.  Additionally, the report shows there was no “stand down order” given to American personnel attempting to offer assistance that evening, and no American was left behind.
The report also shows that the process used to develop the talking points was flawed, but that the talking points reflected the conflicting intelligence assessments in the days immediately following the crisis. Finally, the report demonstrates that there was no illegal activity or illegal arms sales occurring at U.S. facilities in Benghazi. And there was absolutely no evidence, in documents or testimony, that the Intelligence Community’s assessments were politically motivated in any way."
     In other words, every conspiracy theory about Benghazi turned out to be wrong.
    Steve Benen, of MSNBC tells us in his blog, "Taken together, the deadly violence in Benghazi two years ago has now been investigated by the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, the independent State Department Accountability Review Board, the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

    "How many of them uncovered evidence of a cover-up? None.

    "It’s against this backdrop that House Republicans have decided what’s really needed is … another committee. It will cost taxpayers several million dollars, and according to the committee’s leadership, the goal is to ask questions that have already been answered."

    So, maybe it's not as over as I thought.

Huffington Post has a story about a Media Matters study on the number of times FOX aired Benghazi stories.