◼ Benghazi Investigation Deepens: Lawmakers Seek Interviews of 13 Officials Involved - Stephen F. Hayes/Weekly Standard
◼ Who Outed the CIA Annex in Benghazi? - Eli Lake/Daily Beast
In a classified hearing, a House panel is trying to figure out how the attack transpired. Did the attackers know that secret location, or did they learn it that night?
◼ White House Spins Obama’s Role in Benghazi: From Competence to Irrelevance (VIDEO) - Helle Dale/Heritage Foundry
◼ Obama nominates Nuland for assistant secretary of state - Politico
President Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official involved in the editing of the administration's talking points on Benghazi, to be the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.
Nuland, a career foreign service officer who was until recently State's top spokesperson, had long been expected to be nominated the post to replace Philip Gordon, who Obama picked to serve as Middle East coordinator for the National Security Council.
Nuland's nomination -- which requires Senate confirmation -- could come under scrutiny from Republicans who see her as playing a central role in shaping the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used when she appeared on Sunday shows several days after the attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead.
