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you may have heard the word 'benghazi' afew times are few thousand times in the past few years – "benghazi" – – "probes about benghazi" – – "benghazi committee" – –â "you wouldn't have had your benghazi situation" – whether from fox news andrepublicans in congress who insist it's a major scandal or some liberals jokingabout it on twitter, it all has to do with republicans' deeper beliefs about barack obama'spresidency and with the politics

surrounding hillary clinton's presidentialcampaign. but to see how benghazi fits into all ofthat you need to know exactly what happened in benghazi, in the first place. on the night of september 11th 2012 agroup of islamist militia members attacked a us diplomatic outpost inbenghazi libya. they killed four americans including the us ambassador tolibya chris stevens who was visiting from tripoli that week. the city was a centreof the us-backed rebellion that toppled muammar qaddafi the year before, and a number of armed groups had emerged in the aftermath. it was a dangerous environment. however, the us had no

intelligence suggesting a specific attack was imminent. at 9:42 pm, the the militiamen easily breached the gates of the compound and set fire to the building. a subsequent state departmentreview blamed systemic failures at the department's senior levels for themission's poor security. stevens had previously requested more security andnot gotten it. in the chaos of the attack us security officers were separatedfrom stevens and sean smith, another state department official. the two mendied of smoke inhalation later that night a team from the nearby cia annex arrived and engaged militants before taking survivors back

to the extra mile away at 11:15pm. 40minutes later the attackers laid siege to the annex as well. resumed around 5:15 a.m. with two moreamericans security agents tyrone woods and glen doherty killed by mortarsfiring on the annex. this later became a big controversy. republicans accusedobama of withholding further military support that might have saved the day. but there were simply no military assets that could have gotten there in time. startingaround 7 a.m. the americans were able to escape the compound and leave the country. the cia initially blamed the attack on a mob protesting an anti-islam movie which hadsparked protests elsewhere in the middle

east. then un ambassador susan rice madethis claim on several sunday talk shows rice: it began spontaneously in benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some rice:hours earlier in cairo. that turned out tobe mostly wrong. the attackers were members of islamist militias we now know; notrandom mob. republicans accuse the obama administration of campaign withintelligence specifically in races talking points for the sunday shows tohide the fact there was a terrorist attack. wallace: did the obama administrationplay down what happened in libya what

wallace: happened in cairo because it would makeobama foreign policy look better? but later investigation showed that she'dhonestly repeated cia analysis rather than deliberately lying. still, amidst thecontroversy, rice withdrew herself from consideration to become the nextsecretary of state there have been eight official investigations intobenghazi mostly involving or led by congressional republicans and none hasfound any real evidence of a cover-up, or wrongdoing by the administration withthe exception of the state department's internal report blaming its ownincompetence for failing to provide sufficient security. so why are republicansstill investigating? partly out of a

certainty that something was wrong stemming from deep-seated republicanbeliefs that obama is both week on terror in corruptly authoritarian, enoughto hide the truth. but this is also about politics. republicans want to embarrassobama and damage hillary clinton who was then secretary of state the time of theattack. house majority leader kevin mccarthyadmitted as much on national television. mccarthy: everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable right? but we put together mccarthy: a benghazi special committee. a select committee. what are her numbers today? her mccarthy: numbers are dropping. why? cause she's untrustable.

and its kind of worked. the clinton email scandal rose from one of thebenghazi investigations. so you can bet we'll be hearing about benghazi wellinto the presidential election.