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A red hat worn by Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) can be seen as Government Accountability Office International Affairs and Trade Acting Director Michael Courts testifies at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in the Rayburn Office Building on the September 11, 2012 attack on the american consulate in Benghazi, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), left, and Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, right, greets Government Accountability Office International Affairs and Trade Acting Director Michael Courts, center, before he testifies at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in the Rayburn Office Building on the September 11, 2012 attack on the american consulate in Benghazi, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Government Accountability Office International Affairs and Trade Acting Director Michael Courts, right, speaks with an aid before testifying at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in the Rayburn Office Building on the September 11, 2012 attack on the american consulate in Benghazi, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Government Accountability Office International Affairs and Trade Acting Director Michael Courts testifies at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in the Rayburn Office Building on the September 11, 2012 attack on the american consulate in Benghazi, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Aides bearing armfuls of papers arrive Oct. 10, 2012, on Capitol Hill with witnesses from the State Department for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing investigating the Sept. 11 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and other Americans. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Ambassador Patrick Kennedy (right), under secretary for management at the State Department, answers questions Oct. 10, 2012, on Capitol Hill during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing investigating the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The attack resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and other Americans. From left are Kennedy; Charlene Lamb, deputy assistant secretary for international programs at the State Department's Bureau of Diplomat Security; Eric Nordstrom, a regional security officer with the State Department; and Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, a Utah National Guard Army Green Beret who was the top security official at the consulate in Libya. (Associated Press)

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House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, for a hearing on the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)