FOX NEWS – House Republicans on Wednesday criticized a ranking State Department official for the failure to hold other top agency officials accountable for security lapses at the Benghazi mission, where four Americans were killed last year.
“Let’s look at how the department’s review process has played out,” said California Republican Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Accountability Review Board “failed to interview the secretary of State and improbably capped responsibility at the assistant secretary level.”
Royce’s criticism of Patrick F. Kennedy, the department’s undersecretary for management, came during the committee’s fourth hearing on Benghazi. Members continue to probe whether pre-attack requests for extra security were met, whether more could have been done to respond to the scene of the attack on Sept. 11, and why the internal review board didn’t hold higher-ranking officials responsible.
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