https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/01/23/benghazi-whistleblower-dont-even-think-about-blaming-stevens/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 11:50:49 -0400<![CDATA[After the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reported that the attack on Benghazi was &#8220;preventable&#8221; &#8212; surely one of the least surprising conclusions one could have foreseen from a serious review of the data &#8212; the rush was on to take responsibility pass the buck. Some of that effort involved casting murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens as partly to blame for not being clearer about security needs in Libya and especially Benghazi, where terrorist attacks had escalated enough in both intensity and frequency to drive other Western countries out of the area, as well as the Red Cross. Don&#8217;t try that line out on Gregory Hicks, the State Department veteran and Benghazi whistleblower, who takes to the Wall Street Journal today to rebut that response:]]>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:41:18 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/01/23/benghazi-whistleblower-dont-even-think-about-blaming-stevens-n187161