"Nothing to see here, move along"
The State Department on Monday defended its decision not to have lower-level employees testify before Congress about last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya.
And the "Watchdogs of Democracy", the MSM, agrees...
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is pushing ahead with his investigation of the terrorist assault, and has asked for legal protections for lower-level employees who might be called to testify.
The State Department pushed back on Monday and said the independent probe into the attack "should be enough" for lawmakers.
"We think that we've done an independent investigation, that it's been transparent, thorough, credible, and detailed, and that we've shared those findings with the U.S. Congress," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said. "And that should be enough."
Ventrell said the employees who were present during the attack or were otherwise involved have already provided "extensive testimony" to the FBI and the State Department's independent review board, which issued a scathing report last year. He said they're back on duty and at their posts around the world.
"The standard practice, going back for a very long time, is that there are senior officers who are willing to testify on behalf of this department about our operations," he said. "We don't sort of have people at the operational level necessarily as witnesses who are testifying."
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