Congressional investigation charges that Americans were murdered in a well-planned attack that, contrary to what Obama administration said at the time, had nothing to do with a crude anti-Islam video on YouTube.

A flurry of disclosures in Washington, D.C., revealed that the Obama administration's blaming of the YouTube video for prompting a military-style attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi was wrong. And those revelations have reignited a long-running partisan debate over national security and security funding.

"This was never about a video, it was never spontaneous, this is terror and I want to know why we were lied to," Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said during a House Oversight committee hearing this week that revealed security cameras showed no protests in Benghazi that evening, which was the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
For its part, the State Department acknowledged this week that there was no protest of the video in Benghazi, and has blamed U.S. intelligence agencies for providing erroneous information. And White House press secretary Jay Carney said today that the recent furor has "largely been a political attack by Republicans." He added that "matters of security personnel are appropriately discussed and decided upon at the State Department by those responsible for it."