that s according to a new report by the republicans on the house over site committee. a big part of the problem has to do with the punishment of four mid level state department officials. those officials were only mildly punished for their decisions but later reinstated while senior state department officials who implemented larger policies that impacted what happened in benghazi remain unpunished. that includes former secretary of state hillary clinton because this report says that it is still unclear which state department leaders made the call to keep the benghazi compound running without additional security but that secretary clinton s views were a big influence based on e-mail evidence that is available. that leaves republican lawmakers with a lot more big questions. why the lack of security? did hillary clinton know about the other attacks on western targets in the months and weeks leading up to the attacks on our facility? in their defense the state
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
shula, hosting championship teams at the white house. this has become a tradition until the late 1970s and the watergate scandal was taking place at that time. those are your headlines. steve: that s why they re honoring them today, because of watergate back in the 1970s? finance apparently. brian: last minute. i don t think that will ever be broken, the undefeated season. now let s talk about what s happened in benghazi when it comes to the investigation on the united states and who dropped the ball and when didn t and what happened. they did an extensive look into this, an internal investigation, the administration commissioned with admiral mullen and mr. pickering. they look into it and decide that the best thing for them to do is identify four mid level state department employees and suspend them. it s your fault, essentially saying, is and it never got high enough to under secretary or secretary of state. you guys didn t do a good job. you re out. until today.
shepard: in washington, the chairman of the house oversight committee says he had no choice but to hand out subpoenas for several state department officials as part of that panel s investigation into deadly terror attack in benghazi, libya. the chairman darrell issa says scheduling interviews with those officials was simply taking too long. last september s attack killed four americans including the u.s. ambassador there chris stevens, mike emanuel on capitol hill now. mike? shep, an interesting dynamic as house oversight chairman darrell issa sounds frustrated and irritated with the state department but not the individual employees there are four mid level state department officials who have been subpoenaed by the house oversight committee. they are eric boswell and scott from the bureau of diplomatic security and elizabeth dible and elizabeth jones from the bureau of middle eastern affairs. the concern for lawmakers is getting their unfiltered stories. i think the think that co