Sara Sorcher | December 20, 2012
If you’ve been following the political fallout from the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, you’ll remember the last public hearing on Capitol Hill in mid-October. That House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing lasted four hours and was dominated by mudslinging and accusations on all sides. Republicans excoriated their Obama administration's witnesses for delaying to call the Sept. 11 assault a terrorist attack, as Democrats fired back at Republicans for conducting an extremely partisan investigation. On the witness stand, State Department official Charlene Lamb looked shaky as Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., insinuated that the department's decision to replace U.S. personnel with local Libyan security may have ultimately resulted in the casualties in the attack.
