In the end, the administration’s efforts to impede the investigation
succeeded, but only in part. The minority members’ and their staff’s
efforts to impede the investigation succeeded also, but again only in part.
And although we answered many questions, we could not do so
completely. What we did find was a tragic failure of leadership—in the
run up to the attack and the night of—and an administration that, so
blinded by politics and its desire to win an election, disregarded a basic
duty of government:
Tell the people the truth. And for those reasons
Benghazi is, and always will be, an American tragedy.