<p>Congressional Republicans on Tuesday accused Hillary Clinton&#8217;s State Department of failing to protect the four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, killed in a 2012 attack in Libya, in a report that contained new and troubling revelations that will certainly ;revive the debate on the U.S. presidential campaign trail.</p>
<p>In an 800-page report, investigators ;said Clinton, who served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee,  ;displayed ;a &#8220;shameful&#8221; lack of response to congressional investigators looking into the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.</p>
<p>The report, which was the ;culmination of a two-year investigation by a special congressional committee led by Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, comes at the heels of ;the ;recent email discoveries that ;are leading many to believe Clinton will be indicted for mishandling classified information. ;</p>
<p>Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Clinton&#8217;s actions as secretary of state were &#8220;disqualifying.&#8221; &#8220;Hillary Clinton was in charge, knew the risks, and did nothing&#8221; to protect personnel on the ground in Libya, he said.</p>
<p>Here are the most shocking findings:</p>
<p>1) Despite President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta&rsquo;s clear orders to deploy military assets, nothing was sent to Benghazi, and nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost 8 hours after the attacks began. [pg. 141]</p>
<p>2) With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items focused on a YouTube video, and others containing the phrases &#8220;[i]f any deployment is made,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Libya must agree to any deployment,&#8221; and &#8220;[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go to either Tripoli or Benghazi.&#8221; [pg. 115]</p>
<p>3) The CIA&#8217;s September 13, 2012, intelligence assessment was rife with errors. On the first page, there is a single mention of &#8220;the early stages of the protest&#8221; buried in one of the bullet points. The article cited to support the mention of a protest in this instance was actually from September 4. In other words, the analysts used an article from a full week before the attacks to support the premise that a protest had occurred just prior to the attack on September 11. [pg. 47]</p>
<p>4) A headline on the following page of the CIA&rsquo;s September 13 intelligence assessment stated &ldquo;Extremists Capitalized on Benghazi Protests,&rdquo; but nothing in the actual text box supports that title. As it turns out, the title of the text box was supposed to be &ldquo;Extremists Capitalized on Cairo Protests.&rdquo; That small but vital difference&mdash;from Cairo to Benghazi&mdash;had major implications in how people in the administration were able to message the attacks. [pg. 52]</p>
<p>5) Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta bluntly told the committee &ldquo;an intelligence failure&rdquo; occurred with respect to Benghazi. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell also acknowledged multiple times an intelligence failure did in fact occur prior to the Benghazi attacks. [pg. 129]</p>
<p>Although the Clinton campaign has called the investigation a &#8220;waste of time,&#8221; Presidential candidate Donald Trump released the following quote on his Twitter:  ;&#8220;Benghazi is just another Hillary Clinton failure, it just never seems to work the way it&#8217;s supposed to with Clinton.&#8221;</p>