A new Senate report echoes previous findings that the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was preventable. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed when militants overran their compound on September 11, 2012. The Senate Intelligence Committee faults the State Department for failing to bolster security in the face of warnings and for a communication breakdown with the CIA. On Wednesday, State Department spokesperson Marie Harf acknowledged the breakdown, but said there was no specific intelligence warning of an impending attack.

Marie Harf: “As we have repeatedly said, there was no specific threat indicating an attack was coming. Obviously, we’ve talked at length about the fact that we knew there were extremists and terrorists operating in Libya and in Benghazi. But again, we had no specific information indicating a threat — an attack was coming. You know, we can’t go back and look at the hypotheticals about what could have been prevented and what couldn’t have.”