GOP Implores Public to Read Benghazi Report

House Benghazi committee Republicans are imploring Americans to read their report as they unveil it at a news conference at the Capitol.

Chairman Trey Gowdy insists the report contains new information that should reshape views of the attacks in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 that killed four Americans. He says reading it "pillar to post" would take less time than Americans spent fighting for their lives that night.

The 800-page report faults the military for its slow response sending resources to Benghazi despite clear orders from the president on down.

But Democrats, who released their own report on Monday to pre-empt the GOP version, say Republicans have been on a political witch hunt against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton without uncovering anything new.

Republicans on the Benghazi committee released the 800-page report Tuesday on the attacks that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

The panel's chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, says "nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost eight hours after the attacks began."

Gowdy says the Libyan forces that evacuated Americans from the CIA annex in Benghazi were not affiliated with any of the militias the CIA or State Department had developed a relationship with during the previous 18 months.