A Republican-led Congressional panel says the Obama administration acted appropriately during the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. This comes after two years of almost obsessive Republican accusations and conspiracy theories that insisted the White House was grossly negligent during the attack.

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After a two-year investigation, the GOP-controlled House Intelligence Committee asserted that there was no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees, and that the CIA and the military did nothing improper in responding to the Benghazi attack.

And contrary to what many Republicans insisted for years, the report found no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was secretly sending weapons to Syria from Libya.

The report was released as part of a document dump late on the Friday before Thanksgiving, a tactic typically employed by those trying to avoid as much press coverage as possible. After insisting for two years that Benghazi was the new Watergate, it would be understandable for Republicans to bury the report.

Although the GOP repeatedly denied that its Benghazi preoccupation was not political, the Republicans launched no fewer than eight investigations into the matter, costing taxpayers an estimated tens of millions of dollars, according to the Associated Press.

The report also said that Susan Rice, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nation, received contradictory and inaccurate information in the moments immediately after the attack.

This caused Rice to incorrectly say that that the attack on the compound had begun with a protest, despite that there was no protest. However, the committee's report faulted the intelligence analysts, not the Obama administration's political appointees.

The 2012 Benghazi attack claimed the life of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and two CIA contractors, Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. Libyan Ahmed Abu Khatalla has been charged with murder charges after he was captured in Libya and taken to the U.S.

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