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OPSEC to Publish New Report on Hillary Clinton, Benghazi

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Inside of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi after the attack on Sept. 11, 2012 / AP
February 13, 2014

OPSEC will release a new report this week that is critical of Hillary Clinton’s role in Benghazi, Reuters reports.

The OPSEC (military slang for "operational security") report says Clinton made crucial choices during the attack on Benghazi, which enabled the attack.

"The attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012, actually consisted of three distinct but interconnected phases: an unsupported diplomatic expansion into the city that enabled the attack; an uncoordinated and unresponsive reaction to the attack itself; and a concerted effort after the attack to remain unaccountable," the report says. "Although a wide range of decisions contributed to each of these individual phases, only one person was responsible for the most critical choices during all three: Hillary Rodham Clinton."

The report also says the attack was not caused by inadequate information but by inadequate leadership.

According to Reuters:

The group charges Clinton with failing to ask the Pentagon and spy agencies to help U.S. personnel besieged in Benghazi and with not discussing the attack with President Barack Obama until more than six hours after it started. They also say she was not candid in her own accounts of what happened.

The report, entitled "Breach of Duty: Hillary Clinton and Catastrophic Failure in Benghazi," says that due to a lack of due diligence by Congress, the "full story about Hillary Clinton's deadly failure of leadership may never be completely told." It calls for a special congressional investigation of the affair.

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