The terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, was "likely preventable" based on known security shortfalls and prior warnings that the security situation there was deteriorating, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a report released on Wednesday,
The White House was on the defensive on Wednesday with news of the release of Robert Gates' In Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War, in which the former Secretary of Defense offered a critique of President Barack Obama as a somewhat indecisive leader while also knocking Vice President Joe Biden
