http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8535691C-E281-46AB-B626-6CC1D2F1216B Benghazi panel to hear from security experts
By: Lauren French
September 10, 2014 02:30 PM EDT
House lawmakers investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi will hear next week from three experts on State Department recommendations designed to increase security at U.S. consulates.
Greg Starr, an assistant secretary for diplomatic security, Mark Sullivan, the chairman of the Independent Panel on Best Practices and a former Secret Service director and Todd Keil, a former assistant secretary at Department of Homeland Security, will brief members on recommendations from a State Department panel tasked with investigate the militant attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens.
The three witnesses will testify on the work of the State Department’s Accountability Review Board - a panel created after the attacks to investigate the government’s security systems abroad.
But lawmakers won’t hear from former Ambassador Thomas Pickering or retired Adm. Mike Mullen - the two co-chairs of the review board. Both have made repeated appearances before congressional panels on the attacks.
Instead the hearing will focus on how the State Department has been implementing the two dozen recommendations made by the review board since it issued recommendations in December 2012.
The hearing will be on Sept. 17 at 10 a.m.
