BREAKING: Ground Witnesses Bust 14 Myths From Government Report on Benghazi

BREAKING: Ground Witnesses Bust 14 Myths From Government Report on Benghazi

Two of the men who were on the ground in Benghazi had a bone to pick with the U.S. House Intelligence Committee report on the Benghazi attacks.
Or rather, they had 14 bones to pick.
Kris “Tanto” Paronto and  John “Tig” Tiegen, two of the authors of “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi,” listed 14 discrepancies in the House report.
The report claimed to set the record straight about what happened in the U.S. diplomatic mission and nearby CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.



But it’s full of statements that, according to Paronto and Tiegen, were known by the report’s authors to have been disputed by committee testimony and other evidence.
“It comes as a very big disappointment to us as those on the front lines that this report is full of inaccuracies and bias,” the two wrote for Breitbart. “We can only assume that this is the case because Rep. [Mike] Rogers and others are attempting to protect their reputations, and protect, or further the careers, of others. But that should be left for another time.”
They then listed 14 discrepancies between the House report and what they knew from their personal experience to be the truth.
For example, the report states that “the other Tripoli Teams officers spread out to assess the situation, locate all personnel and fill any security gaps” after arriving on the scene.
This, according to Paronto and Tiegen, is “entirely incorrect.”
“Once the Tripoli element — GRS and Delta Force — arrived, all of them entered and stayed in Building C until approximately 5 minutes after the end of the mortar attacks that killed Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods,” the two wrote. “Those attacks also severely injured Mark “Oz” Geist and Dave Ubben. The only member of the Tripoli element that joined the Benghazi GRS security team upon arrival was Doherty.”
Another example was that the House report claims that the CIA security team leader in Benghazi decided to order a rescue mission of the State Department personnel trapped at the diplomatic mission.
Again, the two contractors called this finding “incorrect.”
“The chief of base “Bob” and GRS Staff Team Leader never commenced the rescue operation to save the State Department personnel,” they wrote. “Further, the GRS contract security team disobeyed orders to “wait” and “stand down,” taking it upon themselves to depart the Annex and come to the aid of the DS agents.”
The two provided additional evidence in support of their claim that the House ignored evidence when writing their report:
“It’s also important to note that Paronto was antagonized by a committee staff member while Rep. Rogers and his fellow congressmen were in session,” they wrote. “The young committee staff member asked Paronto about his military background and went on to continually ask for several minutes if it was normal for Rangers to disobey direct orders, since it was not proper to disobey orders when he, the staff member, served in the Navy. If the Chief of Base “Bob” and GRS Staff Team Leader commenced the rescue operation immediately, the exchange between Paronto and that committee staff member would never have occurred.”
You can read all 14 “false findings” from the Breitbart report here.
Far from providing the final answer to the Benghazi investigation, the House report appears to create more questions.
Why, for example, would House Republicans sign off on a report that they knew not only contained information that had been contradicted by witnesses on the ground, but that would continue to be contradicted in public by some of those same witnesses?
At this point, there is probably no way to know for sure — not until Trey Gowdy’s report on Benghazi comes out, at any rate.