Too few State Department employees at high-risk overseas missions speak the local language, while the department spends thousands of tax dollars each year on training for officials who don’t need foreign language skills, the Inspector General for the State Department said in a recent report.

The report backs up the Benghazi Accountability Review Board, which said in a December report that the lack of Arabic speakers among the personnel assigned to Benghazi was a barrier to communication and situational awareness at the mission there.