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By the way, Hillary Clinton cut security in Benghazi before 9/11/12, and then lied about it

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Imagine that.

Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times:

House Republicans have concluded that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was responsible for cutting security at the consulate in Benghazi ahead of last year’s attack there, and that the administration lied about why it downplayed terrorism as the cause of the assault.

A new report — the result of months of investigation by five different House committees — says there was plenty of intelligence that presaged the attack, but the State Department and President Obama failed to heed the warnings or give the Defense Department the authority to respond to such an attack.

The report exonerates the Pentagon itself, saying the military did what it could to respond once the attack began, but “was hindered on account of U.S. military forces not being properly postured” beforehand.

In the most damning finding, House Republicans said Mr. Obama and his team lied about the attacks afterward, first by blaming mob violence spawned by an anti-Muslim video, and then wrongly saying it had misled the public because it was trying to protect an FBI investigation.

Gee, you mean it wasn’t all caused by some stupid YouTube clip? You mean they lied, and then lied about why they lied, and kept lying and kept lying and kept lying, dragging us on and on through their hall of mirrors until everybody just gave up?

You can read the whole 46-page report at the Washington Examiner. That is, if you still need proof that the Obama administration is a bunch of shameless liars. They make me sick.

Rest in peace, Christopher Stevens. You deserved far better.

Oh, and thanks to Candy Crowley, too. Great job.

Update: Sharyl Attkisson, who’s reportedly on the outs with her bosses at CBS News (maybe because she actually reports on Benghazi, Fast & Furious, and other stories that make Obama look bad), is all over it.