Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chair of the
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Sunday that
despite the fact that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has appointed a
review board to investigate what happened at the U.S. consulate in
Benghazi on Sept. 11, he still feels there should be an independent
investigation by the inspector general.
“Incidentally, the inspector general responded to [ranking member] Senator [Susan] Collins and me just recently that because Secretary Clinton had appointed a review board to investigate what happened at the consulate that he was going to wait. Senator Collins and I feel that he shouldn’t wait,” Lieberman said on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.”
“We feel that what happened at Benghazi was tragic enough and has implications for security at American missions at consulates around the world that there ought to be two investigations, and one of them ought to be totally independent, which the Inspector General is, so I hope he’ll go forward with the investigation,” he added.
“The security at our consulate in Benghazi was obviously inadequate and hindsight is always clearer so we have to say that as a kind of qualifier, but it’s pretty clear now that there was a lot of intelligence coming out that the Benghazi area, eastern Libya was loaded with violent Islamic extremists groups. There had been terrorist attacks,” he said.
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“Incidentally, the inspector general responded to [ranking member] Senator [Susan] Collins and me just recently that because Secretary Clinton had appointed a review board to investigate what happened at the consulate that he was going to wait. Senator Collins and I feel that he shouldn’t wait,” Lieberman said on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.”
“We feel that what happened at Benghazi was tragic enough and has implications for security at American missions at consulates around the world that there ought to be two investigations, and one of them ought to be totally independent, which the Inspector General is, so I hope he’ll go forward with the investigation,” he added.
“The security at our consulate in Benghazi was obviously inadequate and hindsight is always clearer so we have to say that as a kind of qualifier, but it’s pretty clear now that there was a lot of intelligence coming out that the Benghazi area, eastern Libya was loaded with violent Islamic extremists groups. There had been terrorist attacks,” he said.
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