Department Of State

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Secretary of State John Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird on Feb. 8, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. (Associated Press)

New Secretary of State John Kerry shows his first diplomatic passport he got when he was 11 years old when his father was in the foreign service, during a ceremony welcoming him as the 68th secretary of state, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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"I think the State Department is totally inept when it comes to being able to have oversight on things like this. This should not have gotten to this point," Rep. Duncan D. Hunter says. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks at the Diplomatic Corps Holiday Reception at the State Department, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., right, and Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, left, listen to testimony from State Department officials after an independent review panel said this week that serious bureaucratic mismanagement was responsible for inadequate security at the mission in Benghazi, Libya, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed on Sept. 11, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides, who is in charge of management, and State Department Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, who is in charge of policy, appeared in place of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who had been scheduled to testify but canceled after fainting and sustaining a concussion last week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., right, confers with Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., left, as they listen to testimony from State Department officials after an independent review panel said this week that serious bureaucratic mismanagement was responsible for inadequate security at the mission in Benghazi, Libya, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed on Sept. 11, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides, who is in charge of management, and State Department Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, who is in charge of policy, appeared in place of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who had been scheduled to testify but canceled after fainting and sustaining a concussion last week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama speaks at the Diplomatic Corps Holiday Reception at the State Department, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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"Diplomatic immunity must not become diplomatic impunity" - Mark P. Lagon, who headed the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons under President George W. Bush. (State.gov)

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The 2009 Kennedy Center Honorees Robert De Niro, left; Grace Bumbry, bottom left, Dave Brubeck, bottom right; Bruce Springsteen, second from right; and Mel Brooks, right, pose with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for a photo at the State Department following the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)