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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.
The GOP chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is calling on the Obama administration to expel Iranian diplomats, after U.S. officials said Tehran was behind a plot to murder the Saudi ambassador in Washington.
The State Department should have funded security personnel and training using the money "being lavished on global climate change, culinary diplomacy programs and other favored projects," Mrs. Ros-Lehtinen said.
In Benghazi hearings, GOP criticizes misplaced State priorities →
But on the other side of the Capitol, Rep. Iliana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the State Department cannot blame "its long string of failures on inadequate funding."
In Benghazi hearings, GOP criticizes misplaced State priorities →
