NOT THAT YOU ASKED

It's just the first week in December, but I've already gotten one Christmas gift. Actually I got it on November 21. On that Friday the Republican lead House Intelligence Committee released its report on its two year investigation of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya. The report said that the CIA and our military acted properly in responding to the attack. It also said that there was no wrongdoing on the part of anyone in the Obama Administration during or after the attack.

The only thing they found fault with was the information put out by Susan Rice right after the attack, blaming it on a mob. Even there they didn't blame Rice. They blamed intelligence analysts, who came to the wrong conclusion.

Just in case you're not a FOX News junkie, let me refresh your memory. The embassy in Benghazi was attacked on September 11, 2012. U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and two CIA contractors, Tyrone S. Woods, and Glen Doherty were killed.

Almost from the moments the last shots were fired the right wing media, lead by FOX News blamed President Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for letting the attacks happen, and not doing enough to protect the embassy once the attack began. When they got tired of that, they accused Obama and Clinton of covering up what they thought really happened. FOX News broadcast Benghazi stories 24 hours a day every day. They were as obsessed with Benghazi as MSNBC was with the bridge closing in New Jersey.

Now we know that all of the hysteria and yelling by those on the right was baseless. By the way, I'm not jumping to a quick conclusion based on one report. This is the seventh investigation of the Benghazi attack, and they have all reached the same conclusions. Most sane people would conclude that the Obama Administration did nothing wrong about Benghazi, and therefore had nothing to cover up. Unfortunately, sanity is in short supply in today's Republican Party. Sen. Lindsay Graham has said that the report is full of crap, and Newt Gingrich says that the House Intelligence Committee is under the control of the CIA.

These people are so blinded by their hatred of anyone named Obama or Clinton, that they can't accept the truth about Benghazi, even when investigation after investigation, lead by their party tells it to them.

They first latched on to Benghazi in hopes of defeating Obama in 2012. When that didn't happen they hung on to it hoping they would find something about it to impeach Obama. Now they refuse to accept the truth about it because they expect Hillary Clinton to run for President in 2016. It's time for them to let go of Benghazi, and start dealing with some of our real problems. We certainly have enough of those.