Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Benghazi Accountability Review Board

UNCLASSIFIED - I have to wonder if there is a classified document the public won't see for another ten to twenty years.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -- George Santayana, Reason in Common Sense (1905) 


INTRODUCTION 
Pursuant to Title III of the Omnibus Diplomatic and Antiterrorism Act of 1986, 22 U.S.C. § 4831 et seq., (the “Act”),


Below is the law that dictates the responsibility for the assessment conducted in regard to the deaths of Americans at Benghazi, Libya. I am not covering it here.

22 U.S.C. (click here)
United States Code, 2010 Edition
Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 58 - DIPLOMATIC SECURITY
SUBCHAPTER III - PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY



Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton convened an Accountability Review Board (ARB) for Benghazi to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11-12, 2012, killings of four U.S. government personnel, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, John Christopher Stevens, in Benghazi, Libya.  A series of attacks on September 11-12, 2012 involving arson, small-arms and machine-gun fire, and use of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), grenades and mortars, focused on two U.S. facilities in Benghazi, as well as U.S. personnel en route between the two facilities.  In addition, the attacks severely wounded two U.S. personnel, injured three Libyan contract guards and resulted in the destruction and abandonment of both facilities – the U.S. Special Mission compound (SMC) and Annex....