Terrorism

The emails suggest the CIA initially thought the attack spun from a protest.

The Oversight Committee chairman wants the authors of the report to commit to a transcribed interview before testifying in the House.

“He didn’t say why. He just turned it down,” a Defense official told McClatchy.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said House Republicans needed to “look in the mirror” on who is to blame for the “Benghazi scandal.”

“Start by looking in the mirror,” Boxer said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “Admit that you cut too much from embassy security.”

Forty-nine percent of respondents to a poll from Democratic firm PPP trust Clinton on the controversy to 39 percent for Republicans.

Rep. Cummings wrote to Issa on Monday asking that the authors be allowed to defend themselves in public from criticism.

“I don’t believe at this stage anything has changed by the testimony last week," Pickering said.

Retired U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who led the State Department’s internal audit of the Benghazi attack, defended their efforts on Sunday, saying they had completed a thorough review and saw no reason to reopen the investigation.

“I don’t see yet any reason why what we did at the Accountability Review Board should be reopened,” said Pickering on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

The House Intelligence chairman said committees had been contacted by additional whistleblowers.

Spokesman Jay Carney accused Republicans of trying to "politicize" last September's terror attack in Libya.