Sen. Rand Paul maintains that Benghazi was an intelligence failure.
On the heels of the House Intelligence Committee report on Benghazi that “there was no intelligence failure prior to the attacks,” the Kentucky Republican expressed his disagreement in a Monday op-ed for Breitbart News.
“Benghazi was the definition of an intelligence failure. It was, in fact, one of the worst intelligence failures in our history, a strategic blunder that resulted in the murder of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans,” Paul said. “This administration has changed the talking points and ignored important questions about Benghazi throughout — when the administration knew what was happening.”
Paul also questioned whether the CIA’s story of being “intentionally delayed by the administration in conducting a rescue effort” was fabricated.
He then jabbed at another possible 2016 candidate — Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state during the 2011 Benghazi attacks.
“All of these questions make a difference — about your judgment and the basic competency of this administration. They make a difference to the families of the victims,” Paul wrote, referring to Clinton’s Benghazi testimony where she responded to a question what started the attacks by saying, “What difference at this point does it make?”
“I will continue to seek the truth until those at the top of this two-year chain of deception are finally held accountable,” Paul concluded.
