State Department Report says that “...the...Video” had nothing to do with the Benghazi attacks — Predictably, POTUS Obama and SecState Clinton escape any blame in report by their underlings

Report by the “Accountability Review Board for Benghazi” will not put out the fires that started in Benghazi on the night of September 11, 2012 and that have been smoldering under the rumps of President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Secretary Susan Rice ever since.  More likely,  this will add much more fuel to that fire

According to a commentary by Neil Munro in the Daily Caller for 12/19/12, “The State Department’s report on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi describes a series of strategy and management failures, but doesn’t assign responsibility to any individual Americans  —  [most notably, there’s not even a mention of] the secretary of state or the president of the United States.” http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/19/obama-clinton-escape-blame-in-benghazi-report/

In the words contained in The State Department report, which was written by the “Accountability Review Board for Benghazi”:
 “Systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus of the State Department resulted in a Special Mission security posture that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place....
However, the Board did not find reasonable cause to determine that any individual U.S. government employee breached his or her duty.”

The authors of this State Department report were all hand-picked by those high in the Obama Administration; and at this stage it is not clear whether the final report was cleared by senior White House staff prior to its release.

It should be noted that the official report prepared by the Accountability Review Board for Benghazi specifically dismissed any claims that the attack emerged from protests over some little-known anti-Muslim video; that  theory had been pushed  strongly by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton immediately after the attack, was repeated by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and continued for more than two weeks during the runup to the 2012 election. Quite simply, the Board concluded that “there was no protest prior to the attacks.”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been slated to testify to a committee of Congress this week, but has again “called in sick” for the week. Instead, some deputies will appear in her place before the congressional committee to answer questions about the Secretary of States’s reaction to the report. Commentator’s have speculated that Clinton is avoiding personal questions about her part in the Benghazi fiasco to shield herself from public criticism and other blowback that might damage her possible run for the presidency in 2016.