The ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus is often credited with that old chestnut about truth being the first casualty of war. It’s a good thing Aeschylus wasn’t around last week for the release of the House Benghazi Committee report.With four, competing narratives of the September 2012 attacks hitting the street within hours of each other, the truth not only became a casualty, it fell into that bottomless gap that separates fact and internet-fed conspiracy theory.Far from settling anything, which was its putative goal, the committee’s majority report (at a cost of $7 million) and its disputatious, alternate-reality hangers-on only served to push people further into their respective corners.Democrats, Republicans, rabid conservatives and the conspiracy-minded each came away convinced this week that their version of reality was the right and true one.Whether they came away any smarter is less clear.Shocking no one, the Democratic report soft-pedaled any notion of culpability for Clinton and President Barack Obama, putting it all down to campaign season politics.In this, they were ably assisted by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of California, who pantsed the committee and it’s chairman, U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C), and his committee by publicly admitting that it was all about politics from the start.Then Gowdy, who said he wouldn’t release his report in the middle of the campaign season, went ahead and did it anyway. The report by majority Republicans concluded that Clinton and President Barack Obama should have been more aware of the danger to Americans in Libya and done more to protect them.