House GOP grills Pickering, Mullen on Benghazi

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans investigating last year’s deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, badgered a former U.N. ambassador and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Thursday over their review of the Obama administration’s handling of the matter.

GOP members of the House oversight committee asked why former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials weren’t questioned during the inquiry overseen by Thomas Pickering and Adm. Mike Mullen. They chaired an independent panel that reviewed the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

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