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Intelligence Failure Leads To Dead Americans – Democrats Couldn’t Be Happier

Benghazi embassy attackA report released on Friday got Democrats doing a happy dance over Benghazi.  (For Ann Kuster supporters, that’s a city in Libya).  The report has been spun to clear the CIA and White House of deliberately misleading the public.  So it looks like four Americans were murdered by terrorists because the White House, State, and the CIA, were incompetent.  Winning?

Now, as Jazz Shaw noted, this report leads the readers to believe that “mistakes were made” in the creation of those [Benghazi] talking points, but those mistakes were not the result of an “intelligence failure.” This, despite the fact that an intelligence failure quite clearly led Rice – and White House advisor Ben Rhodes and the State Department’s Victoria Nuland, et al — to believe this attack was something it was not.

Moreover, The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway observed, if the CIA can miss a coordinated, combined assault on a diplomatic facility and a clandestine outpost conducted by al-Qaeda-linked operatives in a city like Benghazi planned for September 11th and still be cleared of culpability for an intelligence failure, the bar to judge the CIA’s efficacy is set far too low.

The White House is standing vigilant, based on the recommendations of Intelligence analysts who can’t be blamed for getting it wrong or telling their political masters to act (or not) based on what they say.

This sounds very familiar to me…I just can’t put my finger on it…

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