Details also emerged this month about the Obama administration's efforts to spin last year's Benghazi attack.
Nor is there proof that Belmoktar directed or was involved in the Benghazi attack.
One of the GOP's harshest critics of the administration over the Benghazi attack, Sen.
Burns said he'd just gotten back from Tunisia, where a suspect in the Benghazi attack is being detained.
But in fact, this agenda was something the Obama administration had signed onto long before the Benghazi attack.
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Hillary Clinton, the outgoing secretary of state, spent Wednesday testifying before Senate and House members about the Benghazi attack.
Republican lawmakers, however, decried the emphasis on funding and characterized the Benghazi attack as largely the result of State Department incompetence.
He was arrested in Turkey in connection with the Benghazi attack.
Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, withdrew her name from consideration for secretary of state after drawing heavy criticism from McCain and other Republicans over her public statements about the Benghazi attack.
When asked whether Clinton had heard of the security concerns prior to the Benghazi attack, Burns said the conversations with Clinton and senior level officials were mainly focused on the overall general security picture in Libya, but there was a general awareness of the deteriorating security situation in the eastern part of the country.
She is believed to be the first U.S. diplomat killed since the September attack in Benghazi, Libya.
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Second, except in reference to the attack in Benghazi, Romney pointedly avoids mention of Islam, Islamism, or jihad.
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Two surveillance drones had been redirected to Benghazi shortly after the attack began, and were already hovering over the compound.
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White House press briefing, Press Secretary Jay Carney responded to a question regarding the administrations cooperation with congress, in providing information on the attack in Benghazi.
Mark Thompson, the deputy coordinator for operations at the State Department, said he was at his desk when the first reports arrived indicating an attack in Benghazi.
Another witness, Mark Thompson, the deputy coordinator for operations at the State Department, testified that he was at his desk when the first reports arrived indicating an attack in Benghazi.
He also noted that the National Counterterrorism Center had identified some 281 threats to U.S. diplomats, diplomatic facilities, embassies, ambassadors and consulates during the six months before the attack in Benghazi.
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The Marines were sent to Spain in recent weeks as part of a new permanent contingency force capable of moving into North Africa very quickly after the deadly attack in Benghazi last year showed military forces were not close enough to assist.
Britain has not had a diplomatic presence in Benghazi - Libya's second largest city - since an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on 11 September when the US ambassador and three other Americans died.
What I can say is that there was no actionable intelligence indicating there would be an attack at the Benghazi facility.
The Obama administration asked us to believe that the fatal attack on our Benghazi consulate was by an unorganized mob enraged by an anti-Islam film.
Officials later acknowledged that there was no protest in Benghazi at the time of the attack.
The New York Times reported in January that several of the militants involved in the Algerian attack had also been in Benghazi in September, citing a senior Algerian official.
He was killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi last September.
Four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stephens, were killed during an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Republicans had fiercely criticised her response to last September's deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
On 11 September, US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died during an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.
U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
The hearing - which centred on the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012 - is likely to be Mr Panetta's last before he leaves office.
"The United States deplores the attack on its diplomatic mission in Benghazi ... we have requested the Libyan Ministry of Interior to increase its security around U.S. facilities in Libya, " the embassy said.
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