WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats concluded Thursday the U.S. military wasn’t ordered to “stand down” during last year’s attack on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, rejecting Republican claims the Obama administration held back military assets while Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.The 80-page report ordered by Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, senior Democrat on the House oversight committee, also defended a Benghazi review led by former U.N. Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Adm. Mike Mullen, the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman. Both are veterans of Democratic and Republican administrations.
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