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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1199387" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=1]Unacceptable Al Jazeera Got Benghazi Report Before Congress[/h][h=2]Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) blasted the chairman of an investigative&nbsp; panel on the Benghazi attacks for allowing its report to be leaked to Al&nbsp; Jazeera America before Congress even obtained copies of it.[/h]&quot;For Al Jazeera to have a copy it a month almost before us is not acceptable,&quot; Chaffetz said .At a Thursday House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on&nbsp; Benghazi, Chaffetz asked Mark Sullivan, the chairman of the Independent&nbsp; Panel of Best Practices, how lawmakers in Congress could have learned <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/3/exclusive-benghazireportdetailssecurityflawsatusdiplomaticposts.html" target="_blank">about the report on Al Jazeera</a>. The report found that the State Department knew of security problems&nbsp; in Benghazi and failed to do anything about it. Chaffetz said&nbsp; Congressmen still do not have the report while Al Jazeera America has&nbsp; had it for a month. &nbsp;&quot;One of my fundamental challenges and problems is the United States&nbsp; Congress doesn&#039;t have this report. It&#039;s been almost a month. We don&#039;t&nbsp; have this report,&quot; Chaffetz said. &quot;And yet the first time it comes out&nbsp; is on Al Jazeera?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1199387, member: 12952"] [h=1]Unacceptable Al Jazeera Got Benghazi Report Before Congress[/h] [h=2]Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) blasted the chairman of an investigative panel on the Benghazi attacks for allowing its report to be leaked to Al Jazeera America before Congress even obtained copies of it.[/h]"For Al Jazeera to have a copy it a month almost before us is not acceptable," Chaffetz said . At a Thursday House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Benghazi, Chaffetz asked Mark Sullivan, the chairman of the Independent Panel of Best Practices, how lawmakers in Congress could have learned [URL="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/3/exclusive-benghazireportdetailssecurityflawsatusdiplomaticposts.html"]about the report on Al Jazeera[/URL]. The report found that the State Department knew of security problems in Benghazi and failed to do anything about it. Chaffetz said Congressmen still do not have the report while Al Jazeera America has had it for a month. "One of my fundamental challenges and problems is the United States Congress doesn't have this report. It's been almost a month. We don't have this report," Chaffetz said. "And yet the first time it comes out is on Al Jazeera? [/QUOTE]

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