Benghazi report blames it on the system and finds no one responsible for it

Politico:
“Systemic failures” and “management deficits” by top U.S. officials are to blame for an inadequate security situation at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi ahead of the attack that killed four Americans, according to an independent review of the September attacks released Tuesday.

But the Benghazi advisory review board found that despite lapses in judgment and management, no American official was guilty of neglect or dereliction of duty.

The board, led by Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Michael Mullen, concluded that the deaths were the result of a planned terrorist attack — not a spontaneous riot, as initially reported.

“The Board concluded that there was no protest prior to the attacks, which were unanticipated in their scale and intensity,” the report concludes.

“The Board found that certain senior State Department officials within two bureaus demonstrated a lack of proactive leadership and management ability in their responses to security concerns posed by Special Mission Benghazi,” the report concludes. “However, the Board did not find reasonable cause to determine that any individual U.S. government employee breached his or her duty.”
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That sounds like a bureaucratic cop out to me.  Surely someone was responsible for the system that failed.  Someone was responsible for the management deficit.  Were they just too reluctant to say Hillary and the people under her screwed up?

We shill don't know what the President actually ordered following the attack and whether that order was followed.

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