the fold. chief washington correspondent james rosen has tonight s top story. reporter: in the nearly 12 months since a premeditated attack at two u.s. installations in benghazi killed four americans, including the ambassador to libya, not a single terrorist has been brought to justice. at the state department, an investigation by the accountability review board, arb, resulted in four employees being placed on administrative leave. now secretary of state john kerry ordered all four reassigned to different jobs. clearly things could have been done better. i think that s patently obvious to everybody that followed this almost a year now, but again, we have to let the facts lead where they may and these are people with real lives and real careers and we can t just take action that s not warranted against them to make us all feel better. reporter: eric boswell was the highest ranking, he resigned his post. another senior official testified in deposition six months ago, the only court
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steve: that s right. today we re waking up with the news that the four remember, nobody at the higher echelons, nobody at the state department, including the secretary of state, in trouble in any way. they had to punish those four mid-level people. but today we re waking up to the news that john kerry, since he s taken over as secretary of state, has reviewed the complete account and has determined that those people did absolutely nothing wrong. they re free to return to their job. this includes former deputy assistant secretary raymond maxwell who he was never told why he was on administrative leave. eric boswell and department assistant assistant secretary charlene lamb, she was in charge of security in benghazi and she is back at work. not the same job, but she s back at work because, according to john kerry, did nothing wrong. anna: but maybe they did and maybe they didn t do anything
state department s investigation a charade. the department put four officials on leave last year after a review board blamed systemic failures for the attack on outpost in libya. the attack killed the american ambassador chris stevens. state department officer sean smith and two navy seals tyrone woods and glen doherty. james rosen is live at the state department tonight. james? all four of these employees are career officials. the highest ranking was eric boswell the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security or ds. he had resigned his post. scott was a senior ds official. charlene lamb was boswell s deputy and raymond maxwell worked in the nearest bureau. in january then secretary of state hillary clinton told the senate existing law prevented her from taking stronger action against the four. but her successor john kerry took a different view what the secretary and his team has been doing is doing more fact-finding going into what happened on the ground and also looking a