Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya, gives his opening testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 8, 2013, before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Geraci/The Washington Times)
Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya, gives his opening testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 8, 2013, before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Geraci/The Washington Times)
Left to right: State Department officials Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism Mark Thompson, Foreign Service Officer and former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya Gregory Hicks, and Diplomatic Security Officer and former Regional Security Officer in Libya Eric Nordstrom are sworn in to testify before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, May 8, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Left to right: State Department officials Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism Mark Thompson, Foreign Service Officer and former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya Gregory Hicks, and Diplomatic Security Officer and former Regional Security Officer in Libya Eric Nordstrom are sworn in to testify before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, May 8, 2013. (Andrew Geraci/The Washington Times)
**FILE** Libyans gather Sept. 12, 2012, at the gutted U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack the previous day that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** A Libyan man investigates the inside of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi after the attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)
**FILE** Libyans gather Sept. 12, 2012, at the gutted U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack the previous day that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. (Associated Press)
**FILE** Libyans gather Sept. 12, 2012, at the gutted U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack the previous day that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** Sen. John F. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, leads a hearing on the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed Sept. 11, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
