Author: Cathy York

Part of this past Friday’s document dump was the Investigative Report on the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012 from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired (for now) by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).   Startlingly, in stark contrast to accounts from three security contractors (Kris “Tanto” Paronto, John “Tig” Tiegen, and Mark “Oz” Geist) who survived the attacks and rescued approximately 25 Americans, the report concludes that not only was the security perfectly adequate prior to the attacks, but that no one gave a stand-down order to the team champing at the...