Tired of Waiting for Answers: Darrell Issa Subpoenas Four
State Dept. Officials for Benghazi Info
Jun. 24, 2013 11:55pm
WASHINGTON
(TheBlaze/AP) — The chairman of the House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed
four State Department officials as part of the panel’s investigation of the
deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
Republican
Rep. Darrell Issa said in a statement and letter to Secretary of State John
Kerry on Monday that delays in scheduling interviews with the officials were
taking too long and he had no choice.
House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.,
speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 6, 2013, ahead of witness
testimony before the committee’s hearing regarding IRS conference spending.
Credit: AP
“These
persistent delays create the appearance that the Department is dragging its
feet to slow down the Committee’s investigation,” Issa wrote in the letter to
Kerry. “It does not require weeks of preparation to answer questions
truthfully. These delays also take us further in time away from the dates of
the events in question.”
Subpoenas
have
been issued for Eric Boswell, the former Assistant Secretary for the Bureau
of Diplomatic Security, Scott Bultrowicz, the former Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary and Director of the Diplomatic Security Service, Elizabeth Dibble,
the former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
ad Elizabeth Jones, the acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau Near Eastern
Affairs.
Four
Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, died in the Sept. 11, 2012,
attack. Republicans have accused the Obama administration of misleading the
public about the cause of the attack, playing down terrorism in the heat of the
presidential election.
(Photo: AP)
Issa
claims congressional investigators sent the administration a list of 13 State
Department officials they wish to interview nearly two months ago, but have
only been given access to one official.
Issa
issued subpoenas for officials involved in diplomatic security.
Democrats
have criticized the House Republican efforts as politically motivated.
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