--- title: Benghazi: Read the New House Committee Report description: Read the long-awaited report released Tuesday by House Republicans on the Select Committee on Benghazi canonical: https://time.com/4385411/read-benghazi-committee-report/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-28T15:10:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-06T09:49:51.454Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the New Report by the House Benghazi Committee og:description: The report was released Tuesday after a two-year investigation og:url: https://time.com/4385411/read-benghazi-committee-report/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea74158efdb0e0a7/698899ba428a9e66eccd3393/benghazi-reports1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Testifies Before House Select Committee On Benghazi Attacks og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the New Report by the House Benghazi Committee twitter:description: The report was released Tuesday after a two-year investigation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea74158efdb0e0a7/698899ba428a9e66eccd3393/benghazi-reports1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the New Report by the House Benghazi Committee > Sponsored content. 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It finds no new evidence of wrongdoing by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 28, 2016 3:10 PM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 28, 2016 3:10 PM UTC Listen 00:001.0x00:41 Narrated by TIME AI. House Republicans on the Select Committee on Benghazi [released a long-awaited final report](http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo) Tuesday, [faulting departments in the Obama administration](http://time.com/4385206/hillary-clinton-benghazi-committee-report/?xid=homepage) for a slow response to the 2012 terror attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The report found no new evidence of wrongdoing by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has maintained that inquiries into the Benghazi attack are part of partisan attacks against her. The committee touted new information included in the report, including details indicating that no military assets were en route to Benghazi almost eight hours after the attacks began. In a statement on Tuesday, a State Department spokesman said it has “made great progress” toward making international posts safer since the 2012 attack. The 800-page report can be viewed in full [here](http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo). ## Transcript I think what will become manifest to you, is what has become manifest to us. Which are two different images. The image on the one hand of what was happening in Benghazi, during the relevant time period, and the image on the other hand of the decisions made and not made in Washington during that same time period One of the [ UNKNOWN ] of the hours after the attack was our failure to be able to find where the ambassador was. We hoped against hope that he had somehow gotten himself out of the compound and that he was alive somewhere, maybe in the back. [ MUSIC ] With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans. I understand. Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happen. And do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. 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