I read the report, which I doubt anybody else here has. As it was produced by the House Intelligence Committee, it focused exclusively on the role of the CIA in the Benghazi attacks. Except for the shoddy process of producing the talking points (in which both the White House and State Department participated), the report exonerates the CIA. It does not exonerate either the State Department, the White House, or the military. In fact, although the appendix produced by the minority (i.e. the Democrats) tries to highlight the muddled and conflicting intelligence at the time of Susan Rice's infamous testimony on Sunday morning new shows, a fair reading of the evidence is that the administration cherry-picked a narrative it felt was least politically damaging out of the confused melange of reports available at the time.
The questions concerning the military's lack of preparedness, the State Department's inadequate planning, the actions and decisions made by the President during the attack, the weird focus on an internet video (as if that was worth mentioning, even if it had been the spark for violence), the subsequent arrest and imprisonment of the video producer, and allegations that State Department whistleblowers were punished, remain unanswered.
