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    U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

  • An email from then-CIA Director David Petraeus is among the 99 pages of emails regarding Benghazi released by the White House on May 15, 2013. Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. The White House released 99 pages of emails and a single page of hand-written notes made by Petraeus' deputy, Mike Morell, after a meeting at the White House the day before Rice's appearance. (Associated Press)

    Dems rally behind White House on Benghazi

    Democrats rallied behind President Barack Obama in the long-running, bitter dispute over the administration's handling of the Benghazi attack, arguing that the White House's latest email disclosure undermines Republican claims of a cover-up.

  • A Libyan follower of Ansar al-Sharia Brigades carries a sign during a protest in front of the Tibesti Hotel, in Benghazi. (Credit: Associated Press)

    Libya's terror truth: It's a haven for Islamist militia

    The Ansar al Sharia Brigade, the Islamist terror group linked to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, continues to operate freely in that Libyan city, according to U.S. military officials.

  • **FILE** Hillary Rodham Clinton (Associated Press)

    PRUDEN: Payback time in the hen house as Benghazi hearings start on Wednesday

    The noise in the hen house this morning is the flutter and cackle of the chickens from Benghazi, scuttling home to roost. The House committee opening hearings Wednesday on what happened there is likely to serve up chicken surprise.

  • Slain ambassador's deputy says US knew immediately Benghazi was terror attack

    Silent for months, the former top deputy to slain Ambassador Chris Stevens has told congressional investigators that U.S. and Libyan officials on the ground believed immediately that the attack on the American mission in Benghazi was terrorism and not a protest gone awry as administration officials initially suggested.

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Benghazi: The Definitive Report’

    This is a "first report" e-book that was obviously rushed to publication. The definitive book on the Benghazi debacle still needs to be written, and this isn't it. "Benghazi: The Definitive Report" has problems.

  • **FILE** Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli on Feb. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

    France to host meeting on Libya security worries

    France will host a meeting next week to address growing concerns over the dire security situation in Libya, a French official said on Tuesday.

  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will testify before Congress about the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, before she steps down. (Associated Press)

    Investigators find State Department drew down Libya security as threats rose

    Congressional investigators have pieced together a series of decisions that led State Department officials to inexplicably draw down security in Libya last year even as threats and attacks against Western diplomats were rising in the violent, chaotic city of Benghazi where America’s ambassador was killed last Sept. 11.

  • ** FILE ** U.S. envoy J. Christopher Stevens attends meetings on April 11, 2011, at the Tibesty Hotel in Benghazi, Libya, where an African Union delegation was meeting with Libyan opposition leaders. (Associated Press)

    In cable the day he died, U.S. ambassador warned Clinton about Benghazi security

    Just hours before he died in a terrorist attack at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Ambassador Chris Stevens sent a cable to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton painting a chaotic, violent portrait of the eastern Libya city and warning that local militias were threatening to pull the security they afforded U.S. officials.

  • Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, is escorted by Sergeant of Arms of the Senate Terrance Gainer, left, as he walks to a meeting with U.S. senators on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    Specter of Benghazi drives U.S.-Afghan talks

    The attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya last year has become a factor driving the White House decision on how large a force to leave in Afghanistan after 2014 — and a specter hanging over talks between the Afghan president and the U.S.

  • **FILE** U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice listens June 7, 2012, during a news conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York. (Associated Press)

    MCCAIN, GRAHAM AND AYOTTE: Critical questions still unanswered on Benghazi

    With U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's withdrawal from consideration for the position of secretary of state, some have assumed that Congress will now be less insistent on a full accounting of the facts surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi that resulted in the murder of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

  • Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns (left) and Thomas R. Nides, deputy secretary of state for management and resources, speak before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, on the Benghazi attack. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    In Benghazi hearings, GOP criticizes misplaced State priorities

    Congressional hearings on the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, fell into partisan bickering Thursday, with Democrats blaming the incident on a lack of security funding and Republicans accusing the State Department of misspending the funds it has received.

  • President Barack Obama speaks at the Diplomatic Corps Holiday Reception at the State Department, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Obama praises Clinton at State Department holiday reception

    President Obama visited the State Department to share some holiday cheer and thank the diplomatic corps for their service to the country Wednesday night — the same day four State Department officials resigned their posts in the wake of a critical report over the diplomatic agency's handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.

  • Benghazi review blames systematic State Department security failures

    An independent investigation into the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans concluded that the State Department suffered from "systematic failures" in leadership and security that left the consulate vulnerable to a terrorist attack in the unstable city of Benghazi.

  • ** FILE ** In this April 11, 2011, photo, then-U.S. envoy Chris Stevens attends meetings at the Tibesty Hotel where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya. An independent review board is set to reveal its findings on the Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, a report the administration hopes will bolster its assertion that diplomats took all reasonable measures to anticipate and respond to the violence, and end months of finger-pointing and recriminations over whether the deaths could have been avoided. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

    Benghazi review finds systematic security faults

    An independent panel charged with investigating the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has concluded that systematic management failures at the State Department led to inadequate security that left the diplomatic mission vulnerable.

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