FINAL BENGHAZI REPORT RELEASED: Obama, Clinton Lied, Didn’t Take Action To Save Lives.

Gowdy’s findings questioned the administration’s dubious reasons for placing diplomatic personnel in Benghazi despite clear and consistent warnings of violence in the area.

The temporary mission in Benghazi was on the road to becoming a permanent facility in the fall of 2012, when Stevens and a skeleton security team headed to the coastal Libyan city to prepare the announcement of a lasting U.S. presence there.

According to the committee’s report, U.S. officials had reported an “increase in extremist activity” in June 2012 as other Western powers in the area withdrew their people out of concern for their safety.

Other investigations had detailed the string of attacks in Libya that preceded the Benghazi raid, but none had exposed the motivations behind Stevens’ activities in the region, laying the groundwork for an upcoming visit from Clinton, where she hoped to announce the establishment of a permanent diplomatic post in Benghazi.

Related: GOP Benghazi report charges Obama-Clinton did nothing to save lives.

Also: How The White House Spun Benghazi.

New evidence obtained by the House Select Committee on Benghazi suggests the Obama administration forged ahead with a narrative that blamed the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi on a protest over a YouTube clip, despite clear and consistent signs that the violence was planned and executed by a terrorist group.

In a 48-page summary of the committee’s findings that was penned by a pair of Republican committee members and made public Tuesday, Reps. Jim Jordan and Mike Pompeo argued the administration presented the public with an explanation that had little basis in fact because President Obama was preoccupied with declaring terrorism dead ahead of his reelection.

Although then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has attempted to attribute the misinformation in her early statements on Benghazi to the “fog of war,” Pompeo said Clinton was among the many administration officials with almost immediate access to intelligence that indicated the attack was carried out by Islamic terrorists.

“It’s largely undisputed that she had that information, and that’s the way that she articulated it privately that night,” Pompeo told the Washington Examiner in an interview.

But they still jailed a filmmaker, for political distraction purposes.

Plus: Final Benghazi report details administration failures. Note this humiliating detail for Hillary’s State Department: “The panel also found that former senior officials in the defunct Qadhafi regime helped evacuate Americans to safety, a surprising finding given that the U.S. was backing the rebels fighting against the regime. The GOP committee staffer noted that the rebel forces State had worked to befriend did not come to the Americans’ aid.”

Also: “The committee also blasts the State Department’s internal investigation of the attack, known as the Accountability Review Board, for allegedly coordinating with Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. Such reviews are traditionally independent.” Traditions of that sort seldom survive contact with the Clintons.

Also: Politico: Weapons trafficking questions remain unanswered in Benghazi report.

UPDATE: Report: Mills’ influence tainted review board. In 2012, I attended a dinner with Condi Rice in L.A. where she told us that these reviews were meticulous and unbiased. That was no doubt true when she was Secretary of State, but her confidence that the same would obtain under the Obama Administration is, I’m afraid, sadly typical of the GOP leadership’s lack of imagination, or maybe perception.