The State Department's Benghazi review panel is under investigation itself by the State Department's Inspector General according to Fox News.
The State Department's Office of Inspector General is investigating the special internal panel that probed the Benghazi terror attack for the State Department, Fox News has confirmed.
The IG's office is said by well-placed sources to be seeking to determine whether the Accountability Review Board, or ARB -- led by former U.N. Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen -- failed to interview key witnesses who had asked to provide their accounts of the Benghazi attacks to the panel.
The IG's office notified the department of the "special review" on March 28, according to Doug Welty, the congressional and public affairs officer of the IG's office.
This disclosure marks a significant turn in the ongoing Benghazi case, as it calls into question the reliability of the blue-ribbon panel that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton convened to review the entire matter. Until the report was concluded, she and all other senior Obama administration officials regularly refused to answer questions about what happened in Benghazi.
Also related to the 9-11 Benghazi terror attack against America, which killed four Americans,, via Fox News: On the night of the Benghazi terror attack, special operations put out multiple calls for all available military and other assets to be moved into position to help -- but the State Department and White House never gave the military permission to cross into Libya, sources told Fox News.
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The next congressional Benghazi hearing is scheduled for May 8, 2013 and it is expected that testimony will be given by "whistle-blowers," who claim they have been threatened by the Obama administration, and have obtained legal counsel.
[Update] It also appears that the Obama administration is attempting to block security clearances for the lawyers representing the whistle-blowers to prevent them from being present when their clients are testifying on May 8, 2013..
