House Hearing on U.S. Consulate Attack in Benghazi (part 1)

House Foreign Affairs Cmte Hearing on Benghazi (Dec. 20, 2012)

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing: Sec. Clinton (Part 1)

Washington, DC
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presents her view of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  This is her second hearing today on the incident.
In December, the State Department's highest ranking foreign service officers, William Burns and Thomas Nides, testified before Congressional lawmakers in the Secretary's place. They discussed a new report by an independent panel assessing the Benghazi attack.
Deputy Sec. Nides put several recommendations from a report on the attack into effect before the end of 2012. Implementing the rest, Nides said, will be underway by the time the next Secretary of State takes office. Three State Department officials have resigned since the report was released.
The two officials were substituting for Secretary Clinton, who was recovering from a concussion she suffered after fainting. She had become  dehydrated due to a stomach virus.
Four Americans were killed in that attack, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. Congress is investigating whether the State Department denied a request for extra security at that outpost earlier in the year and what actions were taken in the moments after the attack began.


Related Resources

• Hearing Details
  House Foreign Affairs Cmte.
• Independent Panel's Benghazi Report