‘Inside Job’? Leaders of State Department’s Benghazi Review Grilled By Lawmakers -- FOX News
The leaders of the State Department's internal review of the Benghazi terror attack were grilled Thursday by congressional Republicans who suggested their probe amounted to an "inside job" that let senior officials off the hook.
The hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee comes days after the committee released a draft report alleging that top State Department officials escaped blame for some of the policy decisions that left the U.S. compound in Benghazi less secure. The leaders of the internal review board -- former Amb. Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gen. Mike Mullen -- were called to testify, and defended the board's objectivity and findings.
"I had no sense anywhere that there was any conflict of interest," Pickering said. "I'm proud of the report."
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More News On Today's Congressional Hearings On Benghazi
Benghazi investigators defend their probe -- CBS
House GOP grills Pickering, Mullen on Benghazi -- Boston.com/AP
House Republicans Say Benghazi Report Seen as a Whitewash -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Subpoenas will hit State Department over Benghazi as House Oversight committee gets serious: Will Hillary Clinton be on the list? -- Daily Mail
House GOP accused of ‘getting at somebody’ in Benghazi hearings -- MSNBC
House Dems: No 'Stand-Down' Order During Benghazi -- ABC/AP
My Comment: What is my take on all of this .... I agree with the parents whose sons were killed in Benghazi .... call up the witnesses who were on the ground in Libya when the attack was happening, and listen to their testimony.
Update: Administration's Benghazi Review Board Discredits Itself in Congressional Hearing. Do the media care? -- Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
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